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EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL

EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,381,260 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($262,165). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2024
27
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
10/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals 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 ($657k) Expenses 100 ($678k) Net assets 100 ($120k)2018 Revenue 92 ($605k) Expenses 79 ($537k) Net assets 157 ($187k)2020 Revenue 43 ($280k) Expenses 32 ($216k) Net assets 161 ($193k)2021 Revenue 41 ($268k) Expenses 44 ($297k) Net assets 136 ($163k)2022 Revenue 55 ($364k) Expenses 54 ($364k) Net assets 136 ($162k)2023 Revenue 217 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($595k) Net assets 829 ($991k)2024 Revenue 239 ($1.6M) Expenses 201 ($1.4M) Net assets 999 ($1.2M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (239)Expenses (201)Net assets (999)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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2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 25% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
17
$68k
18
$64k
20
$29k
21
$895
22
$829k
23
$204k
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $88k → $487k.

9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)61% 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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL’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

EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

81% 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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL.

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 44% · 2019 39% · 2020 58% · 2021 65% · 2022 46% · 2023 39%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

20% of EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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

61% of EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL'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. Of the $535k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from California funders.

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PA
NJ
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AL
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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. $846k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

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 27 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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.

Federal$50k
grants $50kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$50k

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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL

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

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: 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 EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL?
EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,381,260 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($262,165). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,381,260 in grants to EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $262,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL 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 27funders 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