California · Nonprofit
CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC
CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,544,232 to it, the largest being HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,542,268). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $755k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $164k
What Central Coast Salmon Enhancement Inc does
Mission
Ccse doing business as creek lands conservation, works in california's central coast region to restore and conserve coastal watershed ecosystems, to restore and conserve coastal marine ecosystems, and to deliver equitable conservation science education programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our watershed conservation activities often use Federally listed steelhead trout as a keystone species to inform restoration and monitoring projects in coastal creeks and estuaries. We work with water rights holders to ensure human activities do not compromise healthy watershed functionality. Our coastal marine conservation activities likewise use keystone species such as abalone, oysters, and clams to measure and improve ecosystem functionality. We reach dozens of elementary schools in five school districts with our conservation science educational programs. Our programs bring standards-aligned classroom conservation science lessons to 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Classroom lessons prepare students for outdoor learning experiences that connect them to the central coast.
$406,179 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $406,179.
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 2024 to 2025, from $935k to $401k (−57%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 87% · 2019 68% · 2020 86% · 2021 76% · 2022 65% · 2023 30% · 2024 46% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Don Chartrand
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $69k → $272k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC’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
CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 40% · 2021 38% · 2022 89% · 2023 73% — 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
80% of CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
73% of CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $289k on record.
- Department of Commerce$289k
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 CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC
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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC: 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 CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC?
- CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,544,232 to it, the largest being HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,542,268). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,544,232 in grants to CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC?
- HAROLD J MIOSSI CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,542,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL COAST SALMON ENHANCEMENT INC 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 10 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