Philanthropists
It’s your gift.
You deserve to see what it protects.
You can protect land at a scale most people never will. Giving is the easy part. The hard part is knowing your gift did what you intended, instead of thinning out before it reaches the ground.
We help you find and vet projects, structure your giving, and work with the team you already have, so your dollars end up where you meant them to go.
At West Branch, we understand.
Most donors we talk to want the same thing: to see results. The problem usually isn’t that any one organization falls short. It’s that each sees only its own piece, and no one is connecting those pieces around your goal. Good intentions end up adding up to less than they should.
We handle the hard stuff, working across a wide range of nonprofit partners to put as much of your gift as possible into protected land.
How do I get my dollars into the dirt?
Giving well takes more than writing a check. A few of the ways we turn conservation dollars into protected acres:
Vet projects on the merits
We find projects and judge them on what they’ll protect, not on who makes the best pitch. You fund work that wouldn’t happen without you.
Structure the giving to go further
We structure the gift so that as much of it as possible reaches the land, and so the tax treatment works in your favor.
We work with your team
We work alongside the advisors you already trust, instead of asking you to swap them out.
Keep a straight line to the ground
You can trace your gift to specific acres on specific properties, in the places you care about.
Reach out to explore.
If you’ve been thinking about what happens to the land,
let’s talk about your situation and your options.
