Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,789,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,211,350). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Willistown Conservation Trust Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Willistown Conservation Trust is to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these unique resources with people of all ages and backgrounds to inspire, educate and develop a lifelong commitment to the land and the natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land Protection & Stewardship Program - See Schedule OLand Protection & Stewardship Program - The Trust's highest priority is to permanently protect the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities. We do this by identifying strategic properties, working with landowners, and preparing and negotiating conservation agreements to protect remaining open spaces. Once the land is protected by conservation easement, the Trust monitors and enforces compliance with the agreement in perpetuity to ensure its continued benefit for the general public consistent with the easement terms. Through habitat restoration efforts and other stewardship activities, the Trust strives to educate and instill an ecological conscience in landowners and others by which all people embrace their responsibility for the continued health and well-being of land and waterways.
$541,011 spent$28,020 earned by the program25% of program spendingBird Conservation Program - See Schedule OBird Conservation Program - The Trust's Bird Conservation Program works to enhance and promote bird conservation in the Willistown area and beyond. Primary initiatives include bird banding, bird monitoring, habitat restoration and education of good conservation and bird management practices. Through these initiatives, the program strives to do the following: increase awareness and support of WCT's basic mission; build general awareness of, as well as interest in, conservation of birds and other fauna and flora; and help conserve critical habitat and specific species through scientific research and conservation projects.
$569,811 spent$2,314 earned by the program26% of program spendingCommunity Farm Program - See Schedule OCommunity Farm Program - The Trust's Community Farm Program serves as a model for how sustainable agriculture and land conservation are mutually beneficial. The program's centerpiece is Rushton Farm, a six-acre portion of an 86-acre protected land preserve in Willistown Township employing the latest agricultural techniques, without the use of pesticides or herbicides, and operated as a model farm and educational tool. The Farm offers numerous opportunities to engage and teach people throughout the community demonstrating firsthand the importance of agroecology, a blend of sustainable agriculture and protection of natural resources. The Farm serves as an example of how conserved land and ecologically appropriate farm practices can work together for the benefit of a community, while protecting land. The Farm donates at least 10% of its overall harvest to a local food bank.
$295,588 spent$96,878 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe Trust undertakes a large variety of programs in pursuit of their mission.
$753,649 spent$45,777 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,160,059.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34M to $40M (+17%).
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 11% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 51% · 2024 37% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Willistown Conservation Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% 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.
Chief executive
Catherine W Etherington
Exec Director/President
Board chair
John F Stoviak Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $188k → $627k.
12 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Willistown Conservation Trust Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
Willistown Conservation Trust 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
41% 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 Willistown Conservation Trust Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 15% · 2023 33% — 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
53% of Willistown Conservation Trust Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
72% of Willistown Conservation Trust Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Willistown Conservation Trust Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182k on record.
- Department of the Interior$182k
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 Willistown Conservation Trust 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 1 related entity
- Delchester Group Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc?
- Willistown Conservation Trust Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,789,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,211,350). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Willistown Conservation Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $4,789,400 in grants to Willistown Conservation Trust Inc, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Willistown Conservation Trust Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,211,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Willistown Conservation Trust Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 75 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