Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC
WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,376 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($64,311). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $279k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $255k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Waukesha County Land Conservancy Inc does
Mission
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Management of protected lands.
$171,122 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $14M (+1%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 50% · 2021 31% · 2022 46% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Allison Romero
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $29k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 52% · 2019 50% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 42% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
19% of WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of the Interior$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC?
- WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,376 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($64,311). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $255,376 in grants to WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing