California · Nonprofit
ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY
ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743,705 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($840,975). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy does
Mission
Formed in 2000, the Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy works with urgency to identify, conserve, enhance and steward critical natural habitats and wildlife corridors of the San Rafael Hills, Verdugo Mountains and foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains between Tujunga Wash and Altadena, and to link them to the Santa Monica Mountains at Griffith Park. Our overarching goal is to restore biodiversity throughout our Los Angeles region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community education: offered free classes, field trips, workshops, lectures and programs free to the public experiential, nature-based programs for children and families opportunity for volunteerism, environmental stewardship and preservation and leadership by example for sustainable fire hazard reduction practices. Developed curriculum and taught classes about native plant growth and usage for fire hazard reduction geology and wildlife. Maintained and monitored motion-sensitive cameras to track wildlife movement throughout our area of study. Published maps and information about local wildlife areas. Conducted our seventh annual summer internship program for high school and college students educating them to become the next generation of conservationists.
$340,729 spent60% of program spendingLand acquisition: researched and shared data about numerous properties containing critical habitat. Led docent tours and community forums about land conservation and wildlife corridors to gain community support for land acquisitions. Met with city planners to educate them about the need for wildlife corridor land conservation. Met with program investors and educated major donors about acquisition opportunities. Created and utilized a land evaluation tool to prioritize land in our study area for acquisition. Conducted outreach to property owners. Acquired additional 10.04 acre parcel in city of glendale.
$142,690 spent25% of program spendingLand stewardship: protected and maintained open space: 55.93 in altadena, 17.14 acres in glendale, 7.75 acres in la crescenta, and 11.3 acres in pasadena. Stewardship includes habitat restoration, invasive plant removal, fire fuel reduction, installing and maintaining safe trails, payment of utilities, property taxes, insurance and biological studies.
$82,298 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $565,717.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $4.8M to $5.6M (+16%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY’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. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
John Howell
CEO
Board chair
Janice Davolio
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $87k → $747k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY’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
ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 43% · 2021 28% · 2022 22% · 2023 36% — 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
70% of ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
99% of ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY?
- ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743,705 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($840,975). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,743,705 in grants to ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $840,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing