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CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION

CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,877,174 to it, the largest being THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ($1,142,174). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.5M
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$1.9M
Grants received
$243k
Net assets
0/6 repeat funders

Against its field

CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.9M to it.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

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 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION’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

CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION.

61%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

93% of CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION's grant income comes from California funders.

OR
CA
DC

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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION: 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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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 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION?
CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,877,174 to it, the largest being THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ($1,142,174). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,877,174 in grants to CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION?
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND is the largest funder on record, with $1,142,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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