California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,996 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($389,120). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $536k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $857k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Community Association of Big Sur does
Mission
To protect and defend the rural and residential character, and to preserve the natural and aesthetic beauty of the big sur coast; to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the big sur community; to encourage community service and otherwise act in the interests of the residents and property owners of the community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Community problem solving - cabs works with the community to help solve short-, mid-, and long-term challenges that require a multi-stakeholder approach. In 2022, cabs continued to champion workforce housing, the completion of shared access infrastructure repairs, access to food for community members north of the road closure whose income was impacted.
$417,747 spent72% of program spendingDisaster recovery - cabs provides community disaster relief services during fires, floods, and road closures. Highway 1 closed during 2022 due to an atomspheric river event. Cabs worked with stranded residents to provde a variety of services inclduing emergency food drops, communication liasion with caltrans regarding road condition and access negotionals, as well as emergency road repairs.
$152,929 spent26% of program spendingBig sur destination stewardship project - big sure is ranked as one of the top 35 tourist hotspots on the globe. As challenges mount due to an increase in visitors, Community Association of Big Sur (cabs) is at the forefront in calling for a big sur destination stewardship porject (dsp) and the big sur pledge. A dsp process provides a pathway for our community to assess and co-design innovation management solutions to address visitation, natural resource protection, traffic management, economic impacts, provide for affordable housing solutions and community well-being. The big sur pledge is designed to engage visitions in a positive way to have less impact on big sur's fragile resources.
$11,646 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $582,322.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $316k (−75%).
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: 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Ryne Leuzinger
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $93k → $147k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR’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
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 75% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% — 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
56% of COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
69% of COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $269k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR: 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR?
- COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $856,996 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($389,120). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $856,996 in grants to COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $389,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing