North Carolina · Nonprofit
WORKING LANDSCAPES
WORKING LANDSCAPES (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,287 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($710,458). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Working Landscapes does
Mission
To create more healthy and sustainable lives and livelihoods for people in the warren county, nc region through stewardship of natural and cultural assets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Local food access: we operate north-carolinas only food hub that features a fresh-cut vegetable processing facility with haccp certification. We promote healthy food access to convenient and locally grown foods among students, seniors and low-income residents. We increase market access for small to mid-scale farmers who grow fresh produce and pasture-raised meats. We also distribute fresh produce, pasture-raised meats, and healthy scratch-made meals to 300 food insecure seniors and families in our community. In 2024, we distributed more than 200,000 lbs of local food across our region. We also lead and collaborate on food system planning efforts, working with government agencies, small businesses and civic organizations to build more sustainable regional food systems. For example, we co-led the kerr tar regional food council.
$606,519 spentof which $894,696 as grants$895,278 earned by the program37% of program spendingValue chain development: through this program, we weave together diverse actors, infrastructure, policy development, research, and stakeholder engagement to build connections across the food system. We are a trusted partner, connecting farmers, peer organizations, institutions, and community members in designing, building, and implementing food system initiatives that move healthy food and support reinvestment in rural communities. In 2024, we led workshops on food safety, convened stakeholders around farm-to-school efforts, conducted research to understand the needs of farmers and institutional customers, and contributed to the evaluation of local food procurement programs. We also helped to build the capacity of a dozen community-based and faith-based organizations to integrate healthy local food into their food assistance programs.
$536,433 spentof which $467,210 as grants$1,083,864 earned by the program33% of program spendingResilient communities (formerly climate mobilization: through this program, we aim to build awareness of and support for regional food systems, regenerative agriculture, and the development of housing and community development programs that support health and well-being. We also work to create opportunities for community cohesion through hands-on skills building and advancing approaches to rural livelihoods and resilience. In 2024, we opened a downtown meeting and event space, hosted internship programs for 15 area high school students and helped to launch a public-private warren county housing coalition. We also managed a statewide program with partner food hubs to offer new forms of technical and financial assistance to farmers who adopt regenerative production practices. We supported small towns in eastern north carolina in developing climate resilience plans. To create more healthy and sustainable lives and livelihoods for people in the warren county, nc region through stewardship of natural and cultural assets.
$501,899 spentof which $152,752 as grants$155,803 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,644,851.
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 2020 to 2021, from $717k to $1.1M (+54%).
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 50% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 36% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of WORKING LANDSCAPES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Carla Norwood
Executive director
Board chair
Kim Harris
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $416k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WORKING LANDSCAPES’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
WORKING LANDSCAPES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 WORKING LANDSCAPES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 78% · 2019 71% · 2020 56% · 2021 33% · 2022 52% · 2023 64% — 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
27% of WORKING LANDSCAPES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
51% of WORKING LANDSCAPES's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WORKING LANDSCAPES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WORKING LANDSCAPES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$7.6M
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 WORKING LANDSCAPES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WORKING LANDSCAPES: 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 WORKING LANDSCAPES?
- WORKING LANDSCAPES (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,287 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($710,458). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKING LANDSCAPES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,646,287 in grants to WORKING LANDSCAPES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKING LANDSCAPES?
- THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $710,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKING LANDSCAPES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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