Ohio · Nonprofit
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY (Ohio) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,836,169 to it, the largest being JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION ($5,442,256). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 183
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Western Reserve Land Conservancy does
Mission
Land conservation and restoration for public benefit
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The nationally accredited Western Reserve Land Conservancy, the largest land trust in ohio, is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to preserving and restoring essential natural assets. Since its founding in 1987, the land conservancy has permanently protected 80,000 acres across 1,000 properties, helped create and expand 250 public parks and preserves, supported the establishment of nearly 70 land banks, and planted and distributed more than 18,000 urban trees and nearly 100,000 trees for natural areas restoration. Through partnerships with private property owners, government entities, and other conservation organizations, the land conservancy works to ensure the permanent protection of land and water.
$19,534,704 spent$7,089,701 earned by the program87% of program spendingUrban revitalization, reforestation, and greening: Western Reserve Land Conservancy's thriving communities urban program helps remove blighted structures, plant trees, and create parks and new green spaces in urban areas, transforming neighborhoods into safer, more attractive, and more vibrant places. Program initiatives include the establishment of nearly 70 land banks throughout ohio to provide much-needed ability to quickly acquire foreclosed and vacant properties and return them to productive use. The program also advances urban reforestation and greening by leading efforts to restore the urban tree canopy through expert assistance to cities, community organizations, and neighborhood groups, and by providing hands-on tree planting and maintenance training, resulting in more than 18,000 trees planted and distributed. In addition, the land conservancy conducts on-the-ground property inventories to provide cities with critical information about the current condition of parcels and their structures, enabling more effective targeting of demolition and rehabilitation resources. Altogether, the land conservancy has helped raise billions of dollars for communities across ohio to…
$2,959,241 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,493,945.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $22M to $29M (+35%).
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: 2017 35% · 2018 18% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
White Craig Owen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $5.4M.
28 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 funders by total. 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
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
38% 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 WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 19% · 2019 19% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 13% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
70% of WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
- Department of the Interior$1.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
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 WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 27 related entities
- Ashp LLC · disregarded
- B&L Property Transfer LLC · disregarded
- Bmo LLC · disregarded
- Buckeye Habitat Restoration LLC · disregarded
- Cvg LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY?
- WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY (Ohio) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,836,169 to it, the largest being JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION ($5,442,256). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $28,836,169 in grants to WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY, 112 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY?
- JACK JOSEPH & MORTON MANDEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,442,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 183 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing