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Conservation Science Partners Inc

Conservation Science Partners Inc (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,226,029 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($1,290,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.6M
Revenue FY2024
20
Funders on record
$4.2M
Grants received
$967k
Net assets
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%

Against its field

Conservation Science Partners Inc is better cushioned than half of the 481 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 481 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($679k)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.7M) Expenses 113 ($1.7M) Net assets 94 ($635k)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.5M) Expenses 99 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($634k)2020 Revenue 99 ($1.6M) Expenses 99 ($1.5M) Net assets 91 ($619k)2021 Revenue 146 ($2.3M) Expenses 148 ($2.3M) Net assets 95 ($643k)2022 Revenue 160 ($2.5M) Expenses 147 ($2.2M) Net assets 134 ($908k)2023 Revenue 189 ($3.0M) Expenses 190 ($2.9M) Net assets 141 ($959k)2024 Revenue 168 ($2.6M) Expenses 172 ($2.6M) Net assets 143 ($967k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (172)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 7% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

56% of Conservation Science Partners Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (68% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 500 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
17
$43k
18
$1k
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$27k
20
$24k
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$266k
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$51k
23
$8k
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6.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $273k → $358k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)18% 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 Science Partners Inc’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 Science Partners Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 Science Partners Inc.

31%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 45% · 2019 36% · 2020 36% · 2021 62% · 2022 67% · 2023 70%growing more concentrated.

“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

38% of Conservation Science Partners Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 Science Partners Inc draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.

WA
MT
NY
WY
PA
CA
CO
NM
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $742k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Conservation Science Partners Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.

Federal$6.7M
grants $5.1Mcontracts $1.6M
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$4.3M
  • Department of Defense$1.3M
  • Department of Commerce$450k
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration$346k
  • Department of Agriculture$156k
  • National Science Foundation$149k

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 Science Partners Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Conservation Science Partners Inc: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Conservation Science Partners Inc?
Conservation Science Partners Inc (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,226,029 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($1,290,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Conservation Science Partners Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,226,029 in grants to Conservation Science Partners Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Conservation Science Partners Inc?
WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Conservation Science Partners Inc 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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing