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California Native Plant Society

To protect Californias native plants and their natural habitats, today and into the future, through science, education, stewardship, gardening, and advocacy

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$332kEducation$106kHousing & Shelter$27kScience & Tech$16kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $151,664, the rows itemized in this filing. The $342,031 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $190,367 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$47,098
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Regents of the UC$98,566
Peninsula Conservation Center$47,098
South Coast Botanic Garden$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Friends of Edgewood Preserve: $13k → 7%Peninsula Conservation Center: $47k → 8%The Regents of the UC: $99k → 10%East Bay Regional Park Dist: $100k → 10%Golden Gate National Parks: $10k → 10%Planning & Conservation Lg: $10k → 12%South Coast Botanic Garden: $6k → 13%Palos Verdes Peninsula Land C: $17k → 14%UC Davis: $16k → 16%Friends of Edgewood Preserve: $10k → 7%Sierra Health Foundation: $10k → 12%Lunada Bay Homeowners Assoc: $16k → 14%UC Davis: $11k → 16%Friends of Edgewood Preserve: $8k → 7%Lunada Bay Homeowners Assoc: $11k → 14%UC Davis: $11k → 16%PVP Land Conservancy: $9k → 14%PVP Land Conservancy: $9k → 14%PVP Land Conservancy: $9k → 14%PVP Land Conservancy: $9k → 14%Palos Verdes Peninsula Land C: $8k → 14%PVP Land Conservancy: $8k → 14%Elizabeth Learning Center: $7k → 14%Rancho Santa Ana: $30k → 14%Friends of Earth and Water: $6k → 14%Friends of Earth and Water: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 5 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$160k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+65%

Still filing today

40%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PV
    PALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +85%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue -27%
  • LB
    LUNADA BAY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $27k

Funded once

  • EB
    East Bay Regional Park Dist
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • RS
    RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +65%
  • UD
    UC Davis
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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3
Pacific Coast Environmental Conservancy

Organization was able to support efforts for the protection and sustainability of the unique pacific coast environments

Environment
4
Santa Clara River Conservancy

The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…

Environment
5
South Bay Parkland Conservancy

Since 2004, the South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC) has been committed to preserving open space and creating more parks in the coastal cities of the South Bay in Los Angeles, CA. We are dedicated to helping make the community a better…

Environment
6
Ballona Wetlands Conservancy

The preservation and maintenance of environmentally sensitive coastal wetlands.

Environment
7
Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.

Environment
8
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
9
Placer Land Trust

Placer Land Trust works with willing landowners and conservation partners to permanently protect and care for natural and agricultural lands in Placer County for current and future generations.

Environment
10
Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment
11
Water Conservation Garden Authority

Supporting the water conservation garden in promoting water conservation in the southern california landscape through excellent programs and exhibits that educate and inspire the public.

Environment
12
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Planning & Conservation League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East Bay Regional Park Dist: $100,000 · OtherEast Bay Regional Park DistREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $98,566 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINELUNADA BAY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION: $26,650 · OtherLUNADA BAY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $21,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUC Davis: $16,000 · OtherUC DavisFRIENDS OF AIR EARTH AND WATER INC: $11,000 · OtherPlanning & Conservation League: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,000 · OtherPALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY: $69,879 · EnvironmentPALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSER…FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE: $31,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESER…RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN: $30,000 · EnvironmentRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDENGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERV…Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust: $6,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentPeninsula Conservation Center Management Council: $47,098 · EducationPeninsula …SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $10,000 · Health
Other$290,416Environment$152,879Education$47,098Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY: $69,879 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPeninsula Conservation Center Management Council: $47,098 over 1y, 21% of budgetFRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE: $31,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetRANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPlanning & Conservation League: $10,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust: $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Native Plant Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Native Plant Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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