California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,700 to it, the largest being The Sierra Fund ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Community Environmental Advocates Foundation Cea Foundation does
Mission
The organization advocates for responsible land use and environmental protection polices and actions in nevada county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization works on the implementation of our adopted general plans and zoning, retaining the edge between the development community and rural regions, perserving the natural landscape in our reral areas and quality city and county planning meetings.
$64,267 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $42k to $12k (−70%).
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 COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $8k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA 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
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION's revenue fell 37% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA 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
100%
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 COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA 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 COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,700 to it, the largest being The Sierra Fund ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,700 in grants to COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA FOUNDATION?
- The Sierra Fund is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FOUNDATION CEA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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