California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN
COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,688,046 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($3,139,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Community Land Trust Association of West Marin does
Mission
CLAM strengthens communities in West Marin through the creation and stewardship of permanently affordable homes.We envision a diverse West Marin community where people have a secure place to call home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, CLAM provided ongoing management and stewardship of its rental properties that provide 20 affordable rentals in the West Marin area. We provided housing to 40 renters in 20 rental housing units and three affordable ownership homes. Significant improvements were made on two rental apartment buildings CLAM owns - the Mesa Apts and Ocean Terrace.
$899,636 spentof which $81,000 as grants$379,206 earned by the program91% of program spendingIn 2024, CLAM continued our work to secure the Coast Guard Neighborhood Project in Point Reyes Station to provide 54 units of rental housing to over 180 residents. CLAM and co-development partner Eden Housing worked with our design team, including architects, and a consulting General Contractor, and septic engineers to complete the planning submission portion of the low-income housing tax credit project. This project planning submission was deemed substantially complete and the project comlpeted the CEQA phase of environmental review, as well as secured planning entitlements and a use permit.
$58,044 spent6% of program spendingMartinelli Ranch/Displaced Families-2024 Marked the start of CLAMs work assisting displaced families. CLAM began the process of investigating potential property acquisitions for the purpose of rehousing soon to be displaced ranch families. CLAM received funding from Marin Community Foundation to perform an Interim Housing Feasibility Study, reviewing more than 30 local sites to assess for lease or acquisition.
$36,326 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $994,006.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.5M to $11M (+16%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 18% · 2022 9% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $620k → $434k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN’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 LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 48% · 2019 27% · 2020 39% · 2021 31% · 2022 53% · 2023 27% — 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
69% of COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ocean Terrace LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN?
- COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,688,046 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($3,139,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,688,046 in grants to COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,139,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN 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 21 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