California · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,890 to it, the largest being THE SKYSCRAPE FOUNDATION FORMERLY THE MARIE D JEFFREY FOUNDATION ($284,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $744k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Conservation Action Research Network does
Mission
To understand the biotic processes that underlie and maintain the diversity of life worldwide, especially in the tropics, and to use this knowledge to address global environmental and sustainability challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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$127,796 spentof which $123,698 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,796.
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 2017 to 2018, from $76k to $133k (+75%).
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: 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $65k → $163k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK’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
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% 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 CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 81% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $213k on record.
- Department of the Interior$213k
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 CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK
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
64%
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 CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK: 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 CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK?
- CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,890 to it, the largest being THE SKYSCRAPE FOUNDATION FORMERLY THE MARIE D JEFFREY FOUNDATION ($284,950). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $743,890 in grants to CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK?
- THE SKYSCRAPE FOUNDATION FORMERLY THE MARIE D JEFFREY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $284,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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