California · Nonprofit
40 Acre Conservation League
40 Acre Conservation League (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Placer Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What 40 Acre Conservation League does
Mission
To facilitate the preservation of open space and public lands, both for the increased access by, and enjoyment of, the general public but also to protect the natural habitats of fish, wildlife, plants, and other similar ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, 40 Acre Conservation League advanced its conservation and education mission through the Tahoe Forest Gateway Leidesdorff Property project in Placer County, California. As part of a cooperative effort with the Wildlife Conservation Board and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the organization acquired approximately 650 acres near the Tahoe Lake area to support wildlife-oriented education and research and to preserve, restore, and manage wildlife habitat. The project was supported in part by a $3 million grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, awarded as part of broader state funding for habitat protection and restoration projects.The property acquisition expanded the organizations capacity to carry out conservation activities while also creating opportunities for public access, recreation, and educational use consistent with the projects charitable purposes.
$587,195 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $587,195.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $8k to $3.0M (+37324%).
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: 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of 40 Acre Conservation League’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 40 Acre Conservation League’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.
Where its funders are
100% of 40 Acre Conservation League's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
40 Acre Conservation League runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding 40 Acre Conservation League receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$300k
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 40 Acre Conservation League
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 40 Acre Conservation League: 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 40 Acre Conservation League?
- 40 Acre Conservation League (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Placer Community Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 40 Acre Conservation League have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to 40 Acre Conservation League.
- Who is the largest funder of 40 Acre Conservation League?
- Placer Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 40 Acre Conservation League find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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