California · Nonprofit
AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS
AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,516 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($437,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $751k
What Amigos de Los Rios does
Mission
Our mission is to create a regional emerald necklace of sustainable open "multi-benefit" network of open spaces along urban rivers corridors, parks and schools to connect the "mountains to the sea"-protecting the environment and public health while strengthening community life and responding to climate change challenges for the benefit of current and future generations. We are committed to designing quality public environments that revitalize urban neighborhoods within economically disadvantaged southern california communities. We believe that creating parks and trails, green school campuses and improving the built environment in metro los angeles is the best form of preventive health for urban residents: equitable access to recreation is a key factor in protecting the public health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2005, we outlined a vision for a regional emerald necklace of multi benefit parks for park deficient areas of east los angeles county. Since then, we have been working nonstop to realize this vision. We have formed an alliance of public agencies, 48 in number, known as the emerald necklace coalition. We convene and collaborate with organizations from the public, private, and community sectors, and act as a catalyst, we continually work to bring about the development of high quality natural infrastructure to barren and neglected public spaces including parks, trails, school campuses and flood control channels. Our projects impact many communities in east los angeles county providing education on the rich natural and cultural history of the area. At any given time we have multiple landscape conservation, urban greening and environmental leadership implementation projects in process. Currently, we have a major "emerald necklace" multi objective greenway in development along the rio hondo and lower los angeles river and at whittier narrow recreation area. Highlights of 2024 include work on: 1) watershed discovery campuses-living school yard within the monrovia, pasadena, el rancho…
$3,196,710 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,196,710.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.6M to $2.6M (+64%).
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: 2017 94% · 2018 85% · 2019 95% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $66k → $130k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 39% · 2019 76% · 2020 43% · 2021 79% · 2022 40% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
- Department of the Interior$19k
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 AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS
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
100%
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 AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS: 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 AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS?
- AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,097,516 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($437,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,097,516 in grants to AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $437,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMIGOS DE LOS RIOS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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