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Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps

Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,010 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($254,690). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$667k
Net assets
$258k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps does

Mission

ESCC provides opportunities for at-risk, underserved youth, and young adults, from marginalized populations to experience and better understand their wilderness natural resources. ESCC provides programs that inform the general public about environmental and land management issues

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nine groups of young adults participated in trail stewardship and conservation activities for varing periods of time.

    $980,174 spent$1,057,151 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $980,174.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2019 Revenue 133 ($345k) Expenses 121 ($309k) Net assets 157 ($98k)2020 Revenue 127 ($328k) Expenses 131 ($333k) Net assets 149 ($94k)2021 Revenue 258 ($670k) Expenses 237 ($605k) Net assets 396 ($248k)2022 Revenue 412 ($1.1M) Expenses 377 ($961k) Net assets 570 ($357k)2023 Revenue 333 ($863k) Expenses 382 ($974k) Net assets 393 ($246k)2024 Revenue 454 ($1.2M) Expenses 457 ($1.2M) Net assets 412 ($258k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (454)Expenses (457)Net assets (412)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $134k to $248k (+85%).

$63k
$100k
$134k
$248k
$357k
$246k
$276k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’18
$36k
’19
−$5k
’20
$64k
’21
$109k
’22
−$111k
’23
$12k
’24
2.0
months of
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

Agnes Vianzon

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7899999
Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $64k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps’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

Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps.

38%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2019 44% · 2020 99% · 2021 85% · 2022 65% · 2023 61% — broadly stable.

“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

33% of Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

IL
CA
CO
MD
DC

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.

Federal$3.8M
grants $3.8Mcontracts $0
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25
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$3.2M
  • Department of the Interior$650k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps: 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 Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps?
Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,010 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($254,690). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $667,010 in grants to Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps?
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $254,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Eastern Sierra Conservation Corps 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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