For Land Trusts
The coordination layer you've been building manually.
You already connect stewards, funders, and conservation outcomes. Groundtrust gives you the infrastructure to do that work at ten times the scale — without ten times the staff.
Your role in the platform
Land trusts are partners, not gatekeepers. Groundtrust is built to amplify your expertise, not replace your judgment.
Verification partner
Review and verify Indigenous stewardship projects in your region or area of expertise. Your accreditation provides the credibility funders need.
Long-term stewardship oversight
Maintain ongoing oversight of funded projects to ensure conservation outcomes are achieved and documented. Groundtrust handles the reporting infrastructure.
Relationship facilitator
Help stewards and funders navigate the relationship — providing cultural context, legal support, and conservation expertise where needed.
Verifier, not gatekeeper.
Groundtrust is built on a clear principle: land trusts validate and support stewardship work, but they do not control which projects can participate. Your role is to confirm legitimacy and provide oversight — not to approve or reject community initiatives.
This model protects your accreditation while respecting Indigenous sovereignty. You bring your expertise; communities bring their knowledge of the land.
What your organization gains
Scale without overhead
Manage relationships with dozens of stewardship projects using Groundtrust's coordination infrastructure — not more staff.
New funding pipelines
Connect your existing portfolio to funders who are actively looking for the kind of work your partners are doing.
Streamlined compliance
Reporting tools designed to satisfy funder requirements, IRS standards, and conservation easement obligations — automatically.
National visibility
Your land trust's work gains visibility with funders, stewards, and partners across the country who wouldn't otherwise find you.
Interoperability
Groundtrust integrates with existing conservation databases, GIS systems, and CRM tools your team already uses.
Mission alignment
Work with Indigenous-led stewardship projects that represent some of the highest-integrity conservation happening today.
Become a founding partner
We're building our initial network of land trust partners now. Help shape how the platform works — and get first access when we launch.
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