Non-profit

Open Space Conservancy

Website:	www.openspaceinstitute.org
Location:	NEW YORK, NY
Tax ID:	13-3028060
Tax-Exempt Status:	501(c)(3)
Budget (2018):	Revenue: $27,628,155 Expenses: $37,579,399 Assets: $277,145,317
Type:	Land Conservation Nonprofit
Latest Tax Filing:	2019 Form 990

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Open Space Conservancy (official name: Open Space Institute Land Trust) is a New York-based land conservation group that purchases land in order to block construction and development on it.

Funding

Donors to Open Space Conservancy

The William Penn Foundation, a left-leaning foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, granted roughly $10 million to the Open Space Conservancy between 2010 and 2013. ¹

The Lyndhurst Foundation in Chattanooga, Tennessee, granted OSC $4.75 million between 2008 and 2011. OSC received roughly $2.5 million from the Partridge Foundation, based in New York, New York, between 2009 and 2015. The Benwood Foundation granted OSC $1.75 million between 2007 and 2014. ¹

Other grants to the Open Space Conservancy include: ¹

$25,000 from the 1772 Foundation in 2012
$300,000 from the Bauman Family Foundation in 2011
$260,000 from the Butler Conservation Fund between 2004 and 2007
$35,000 from Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, a donor-advised fund provider, between 2004 and 2018
$5,000 from the Jewish Communal Fund in 2005
$166,925 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in 2014
$25,000 from the New World Foundation in 2013
$775,000 from the Dyson Foundation between 2010 and 2014
$589,600 from the Pew Charitable Trusts between 2001 and 2014

References

Information provided by Foundation Search. Search conducted April 5, 2021. www.FoundationSearch.org

Nonprofit Information

Accounting Period: December - November

Tax Exemption Received: October 1, 1980

Available Filings

Period	Form Type	Total revenue	Total functional expenses	Total assets (EOY)	Total liabilities (EOY)	Unrelated business income?	Total contributions	Program service revenue	Investment income	Comp. of current officers, directors, etc.	Form 990
2018 Dec	Form 990	$27,628,155	$37,579,399	$277,145,317	$31,300,406	Y	$12,080,600	$4,972,668	$1,175,433	$3,003,534	PDF
2017 Dec	Form 990	$33,866,940	$28,152,043	$294,297,858	$20,743,793	Y	$12,801,276	$1,326,369	$359,244	$3,569,312	PDF
2016 Dec	Form 990	$43,406,478	$28,661,362	$281,489,230	$15,574,445	Y	$30,770,754	$2,426,428	$694,306	$2,242,473
2015 Dec	Form 990	$33,408,557	$19,435,556	$271,406,737	$21,238,219	Y	$12,966,568	$118,695	$691,468	$2,233,503	PDF
2014 Dec	Form 990	$18,807,463	$17,800,897	$282,769,135	$24,981,059	Y	$16,823,007	$566,692	$691,216	$2,297,865	PDF
2013 Dec	Form 990	$14,910,075	$16,320,488	$277,340,023	$21,009,167	Y	$9,747,805	$150,233	$617,617	$2,199,396	PDF
2012 Dec	Form 990	$5,684,115	$12,549,646	$251,658,149	$11,647,888	N	$5,091,149	$0	$762,938	$1,588,555	PDF
2011 Dec	Form 990	$21,561,298	$13,261,830	$229,755,550	$3,931,710	N	$14,341,396	$0	$709,018	$1,533,960	PDF

Additional Filings (PDFs)

Open Space Conservancy

1350 BROADWAY RM 201
NEW YORK, NY 10018-0983

https://www.openspaceinstitute.org