California · Nonprofit
California Trails Foundation
California Trails Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,500 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $8k
What California Trails Foundation does
Mission
CATF supports improving trails and trail advocacy groups throughout the state of California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
CATF offers operational grants to the California Mountain Biking Coalition for support, education, collaboration and coalition building of 501(c)(3) trail stewardship organizations across California. In 2025, CAMTB supported over 40 different member organization.CATF also engaged with elected officials and the public to support legislation to this end. Minimal volunteer time were incurred for this activity. "Connected California", a program derived to assist in connecting, expanding and further developing trail networks for the health and recreation of all Californians. Connected California is a nascent program that is still under development. No expenses were incurred for this program in 2025.
$81,163 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,163.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $53k to $10k (−80%).
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.
100% of California Trails Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of California Trails Foundation’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 Trails Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of California Trails Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
California Trails Foundation's revenue fell 28% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,290 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like California Trails Foundation
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Trails Foundation: 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 Trails Foundation?
- California Trails Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,500 to it, the largest being KELSON FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Trails Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $150,500 in grants to California Trails Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Trails Foundation?
- KELSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Trails Foundation 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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