California · Nonprofit
EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION
EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,000 to it, the largest being DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Mammoth Lakes Tourismlocal
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio match
- Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 79% · 2018 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 63% · 2019 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- Mammoth Lakes TourismlocalCA · funds 21 organizations near you
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roberts Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Trusler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Riggs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bruce and Beth White Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION: 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.
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 EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION?
- EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,000 to it, the largest being DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $147,000 in grants to EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION?
- DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION 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 4funders 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