California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION
COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,538 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $881k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $346k
- Net assets
- $330k
What Community Nature Connection does
Mission
To increase access to the outdoors for communities impacted by racial, socio-economic, and disability injustices by eliminating existing barriers through advocacy, community centered programming, and workforce development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mrca 24/25Community Nature Connection receives a general operating services grant from the mountains recreation and conservation authority (mrca) that provides funding support for operational expenses and general programs on public parkland owned and managed by them. This includes natural and cultural history programs at events, campfire programs, community engagement and outreach, new program development, and operations related to cnc programming.volunteers: none.
$73,445 spent12% of program spendingYouth leadership seriesthe youth leadership series programs include emerging naturalists 1.0, emerging naturalists 2.0, girls outside, and the continuing connections alumni program. Emerging naturalists sessions are facilitated by naturalists and guest speakers who transform the mountains, coast, and urban parks into outdoor classrooms. Emerging naturalists 1.0 is a six-week program that introduces youth to natural and cultural resources, outdoor and camping skills, principles of interpretation, and park careers in the field. Emerging naturalists 2.0 is a twelve-week program that builds on the experiences and skills learned in emerging naturalists 1.0 and includes a community action project component. Girls outside is a youth leadership program with a nature and wellness focus. The continuing connections alumni program provides career development programming and exposure to job opportunities in the outdoor field to our program alumni. Continuing connections also provides alumni with opportunities for continued engagement with cnc through programming such as interpretive programs, panel discussions, campfires, and documentary screenings.volunteers: 2
$76,324 spent13% of program spendingWildfire fire resiliency and workforce developmentcnc staff facilitated the wildfire resiliency and workforce development grant agreement #3810-gf-2384. The grant consisted of 7 tasks. Five of the seven tasks were completed within the reporting period. Two remaining workshops for task 5 will be completed in fall fy25-26.task 1 - implementation of outdoor coastal access leadership institute the smmc wildfire grant supported task 1: the outdoor and coastal access leadership institute (ocali) program. Within this task, ocali engaged two cohorts with a total of 26 youth community leaders (high school (15-18) age and transitional age youth (18-21)) through a 10-week extended leadership program in nela and vista hermosa. Participants of the ocali program engaged in core curriculum of environmental justice topics like intersectionality, red-lining, wildfire education and resiliency, were shared during both cohorts. Northeast youth met at elyria canyon park met every saturday in-person and alternated friday evenings virtually for 12 weeks. For nela transitional aged-youth worked closely with the akuutet learning nursery at elyria canyon to provide hands-on instruction of native plant…
$281,069 spent47% of program spendingCnc training institute: california naturalist certificationthe uc california naturalist program (calnat) seeks to foster a committed corps of volunteer naturalists and community scientists trained and ready to take an active role in natural resource conservation, education, and restoration. The uc california naturalist course introduces participants to the wonders of our local ecology and engages them in the stewardship of california's natural communities. The course combines a science curriculum with guest lecturers, field trips and project-based learning to immerse participants in the natural world.the course focuses on the los angeles area and the interpretation of naturalist concepts for and from diverse perspectives as well as themes of natural resource interpretation, social and environmental justice, and traditional ecological knowledge. The course meets weekly (virtually) for 10 weeks and includes two in-person half-day field trips. The course includes many opportunities for self-guided activities in nature. Two courses took place during the fiscal year time period certifying 45 participants. Course dates: september 4 - november 6, 2024 and april 23 - june 25,…
$171,386 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $602,224.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $289k to $888k (+207%).
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: 2018 74% · 2019 79% · 2020 97% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 86% · 2024 79% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Delaney Alamillo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $11.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NATURE CONNECTION’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 NATURE CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 NATURE CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% 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
81% of COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 NATURE CONNECTION receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $346k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $128k on record.
- Department of the Interior$128k
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 COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION: 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 NATURE CONNECTION?
- COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,538 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $345,538 in grants to COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY NATURE CONNECTION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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