California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST
CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,640,817 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,576,969). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $65M
What California Rangeland Trust does
Mission
To serve the land, people and wildlife by conserving california's working rangelands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, California Rangeland Trust partnered with 8 families to conserve 19,464 acres of working rangelands. By conserving these lands, nearly 60 miles of freshwater streams, plus habitat for 14 special status plants and animals, were protected under rangeland management. In addition to having these lands conserved for future generations, the natural services provided by this management have an estimated value of more than 24.6 million.
$21,969,862 spentof which $8,804,769 as grants97% of program spendingThe rangeland trust ensures the upholding of our completed easements by conducting an annual monitoring visit on each of the 103 ranches in our portfolio. A monitoring report, prepared after each visit, notes any changes to the resources or compliance issues, and recommends corrective action if necessary. Monitoring is performed by staff, directors, or contractors supervised by the rangeland trust. Biologists and other experts are added to the monitoring team when necessary to assess the health of the habitat of any specific plant or animal species included in the easement. This process is made possible by stewardship endowments created for each property at the time the easement transaction closes, thereby ensuring permanent funding is available to conduct these activities in perpetuity.
$649,050 spent3% of program spendingNearly 1,400 people from many backgrounds engaged in a variety of community-building events throughout california. These events raise awareness for the work we do, help connect people to people, and create opportunities for ranchers to meet one another and learn from one another.
$95,058 spent0% of program spendingOur new programs department, which was launched in fall 2023, engaged in learning activities and presented workshops and webinars for the ranching community. The purpose is to improve our services to the ranching community in california by connecting them to resources that can help them keep ranching, learn new tools, and access funding toward advancing their agricultural operations. In 2025, we hosted four educational webinars on conservation easement basics and benefits, third-party verification programs, wildfire risk mitigation, and insurance considerations. We also held an in-person succession planning workshop in yolo county, offering families practical guidance for planning ahead.
$40,747 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,754,717.
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 2020 to 2021, from $36M to $52M (+43%).
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: 2018 50% · 2019 83% · 2020 67% · 2021 15% · 2022 61% · 2023 79% · 2024 48% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Michael Delbar
CEO
Board chair
Carolyn Carey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $146k → $1.3M.
11 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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 RANGELAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 RANGELAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 15% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
52% of CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of the Interior$3.9M
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 CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: 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 CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST?
- CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,640,817 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,576,969). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $6,640,817 in grants to CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,576,969 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 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