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COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS
COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $330k
What Coyote Hills Conservation Fund Dba Friends of Coyote Hills does
Mission
The Coyote Hills Conservation Fund is dedicated to the permanent protection of the West Coyote Hills, a critical 510-acre wildlife habitat within the City of Fullerton, in North Orange County, California. We do this through partnership with public agencies and nonprofits to raise funds for land acquisition and habitat restoration. We engage the community through programs that inspire a love for and stewardship of nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Transitioning from fiscally sponsored to independent 501c3 nonprofit
$1,978 spent59% of program spendingLand acquisition and public programs fundraising
$897 spentof which $178,212 as grants27% of program spendingOutdoor recreational and educational programs
$500 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,375.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $293k to $330k (+12%).
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.
68% of COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Angela Lindstrom
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS’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
COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS.
“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
100% of COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS: 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 COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS?
- COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,500 in grants to COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS.
- Who is the largest funder of COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COYOTE HILLS CONSERVATION FUND DBA FRIENDS OF COYOTE HILLS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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