California · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH
CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,110,175 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,412,861). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Conservation Corps of Long Beach does
Mission
To support young adults in realizing their potential through work, service, conservation, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On any given day, more than 150 corpsmembers ages 18-26 perform a wide assortment of environmental and community service projects throughout long beach and surrounding cities (such as signal hill, lakewood, paramount, lynwood, and south gate) including catalina island, the angeles national forest, the cleveland national forest and along the lower los angeles river. These projects include planting and caring for trees, abating litter that is at-risk for getting into our waterways, providing waste diversion assistance, building community gardens, constructing parks, maintaining wetlands, building trails, restoring native habitats, and educating the public about important environmental issues. Corpsmembers are led by professional staff skilled in arboriculture, horticulture, biology, construction, agriculture, ecology, and other relevant disciplines needed to provide cclb's programs and services. Cclb educates and trains corpsmembers providing the job skills and support for them to gain valuable work experience, earn industry-recognized certifications, and explore various career pathways.cclb is a california local certified conservation corps. Only 14 corps in the state currently…
$14,064,554 spentof which $41,354 as grants$17,984,458 earned by the program100% of program spendingConservation Corps of Long Beach (cclb) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to support young adults ages 18-26 as they realize their potential through work, service, conservation and education. Corpsmembers, many of whom come from and live in historically under-resourced communities, as well as communities where environmental justice issues like inadequate access to healthy food, air and water pollution, and inadequate transportation are prevalent. They are typically no longer in school or working and face multiple life challenges. Our focus is asset-based, and we pride ourselves in "meeting young people where they are" rather than having them fit into a preconceived box. We prioritize conservation-focused service projects and career training in addition to meeting other community needs. Our young people are individuals who are case managed as such and provided with the resources they need to move beyond the racial inequities that exist in their communities and into futures that need the expertise that they bring with them and a support system that exists while they are getting a solid footing.through cclb, corpsmembers gain work experience and develop in-demand skills. On…
Providing supportive services is central to the mission of cclb and helping young adults realize their potential. Our overarching goal is to create career pathways and opportunities that when put together programmatically, reduce and/or remove barriers to long-term success. The supportive services provided are designed to aid corpsmembers in their personal and professional development while they engage in environmental conservation work. These programs are structured to provide not just job training but also educational and life skills support to help participants succeed in their careers and communities. The specific supportive services offered vary by individual need, but typically include:- educational support such as high school diploma completion and college coursework, as well as environmental education. This support often includes tutoring and mentorship to help participants achieve their educational goals.- job training and career development support through hands-on training, classroom-based learning, and experiential learning. This includes certifications in first aid/cpr, resume writing workshops, job placement services, and career counseling to help corpsmembers…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,064,554.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.4M to $9.2M (+44%).
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 74% · 2018 65% · 2019 66% · 2020 32% · 2021 6% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Dan Knapp
Executive director/CEO
Board chair
Paul Adams
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $45k → $665k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CORPS OF LONG BEACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. 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 CORPS OF LONG BEACH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 CORPS OF LONG BEACH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 92% · 2019 32% · 2020 68% · 2021 55% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Labor$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$121k
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 CORPS OF LONG BEACH
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
82% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Conservation Corps of Long Beach Gateway Cities Charter School · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH?
- CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,110,175 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,412,861). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,110,175 in grants to CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,412,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION CORPS OF LONG BEACH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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