California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS
COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,953 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($104,943). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $193
What Community Conservation Solutions does
Mission
Develop integrated and science-based solutions to complex environmental problems to protect natural lands, water, wildlife and human communities.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
THE NATURAL PARK AT RAMONA GARDENS The Natural Park at the Ramona Gardens Housing Development will transform a degraded area in one of the most polluted communities in California into a four-acre Nature in the City park, using restored native habitat integrated with engineering and smart design to create natural, green open space, recycle urban runoff and stormwater, create an Anti-Pollution Green Buffer zone to reduce air and noise pollution, improve public health and provide recreation opportunities. Ramona Gardens is adjacent to a heavily-polluting, 15-lane freeway corridor. The Natural Park at Ramona Gardens will crate a natural, shaded oasis with an ecosystem of native trees, shrubs, and flowering plants; a walking trail; and shaded plaza and active recreation courts. It will help address the impacts of climate change, reduce greenhouse gases and urban heat islands, reduce residents' exposure to air pollution, improve water quality in the L.A. River and provide badly-needed public health benefits, establishing a model that can be replicated at other public housing developments throughout California.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $405k to $98k (−76%).
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 74% · 2018 82%. 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 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $5.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS’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 CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS
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
93%
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 CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS: 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 CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS?
- COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,953 to it, the largest being THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION ($104,943). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $149,953 in grants to COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS?
- THE ROSALINDE AND ARTHUR GILBERT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $104,943 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 6 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