California · Nonprofit
CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER
CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,419 to it, the largest being NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ($613,160). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Connolly Ranch Education Center does
Mission
Crec instills children of all ages with a deep respect for the environment; an understanding of sustainable agriculture; and a love for the natural world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Seasonal programs (ages 3 to 12): crec camps are designed to embrace new experiences as they arise within the magical outdoor setting. Our established inquiry-based curriculum provides spontaneous opportunities to learn from what "just happened; allowing children to deepen their connection with nature, themselves and each other. Programs include, but not limited: summer camp andholiday camps.
$301,390 spent$385,913 earned by the program42% of program spendingEducational programs (ages 0 to 12) school-year educational programs follow our unique educational pedagogy, curriculum, and hourglass model of learning & relations . Connolly Ranch Education Center's unique discovery based pedagogy is centered around cultivating social, emotional and ecological intelligence as children of all ages explore and interact with our animals, garden and wild spaces. We lead with inquiry to encourage children to become dynamic learners, mindful leaders, and divergent thinkers. Educational programs include, but are not limited: parent-child class (ages 0-2), playschool (ages 3-5), outdoor afterschool (ages 6-12)
$363,436 spent$524,922 earned by the program51% of program spendingCrec is committed to being an active community partner and provides a number of low-cost weekday and weekend programs and seasonal festivals. Additionally, crec partners with over 6 bay area school districts to provide engaging, hands-on, farmbased educational experiences designed to meet california state standards from preschool through high school. Community programs include, but not limited: saturday farm open house, k-12 field trips & middle school science retreats, harvest festival, earth night festival, and green friday.
$47,561 spent$22,614 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $712,387.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.8M (+114%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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
Heidi Soldinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $26k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER’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
CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 90% · 2022 71% · 2023 48% — 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
14% of CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
99% of CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $620k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER?
- CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,259,419 to it, the largest being NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST ($613,160). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,259,419 in grants to CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER?
- NAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $613,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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