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CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,000 to it, the largest being The Wildlands Conservancy ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californialocalportfolio match
- Land Trust Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Sacramento Food Bank & Family Serviceslocal
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.
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.
98% of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $40k → $65k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND’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
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 75% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
86% of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californialocalportfolio matchCA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Land Trust Alliance Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Food Bank & Family ServiceslocalCA · funds 223 organizations near you
- Pacific Forest & Watershed Lands Stewardship Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peninsula Open Space Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of the Rockies Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environment Nowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND?
- CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,000 to it, the largest being The Wildlands Conservancy ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $555,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND?
- The Wildlands Conservancy is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF LAND TRUSTS ACTION FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing