California · Nonprofit
ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,208 to it, the largest being LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION ($44,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $318k
What Ecological Rights Foundation does
Mission
The mission of this organization shall be to educate the general public about environmental practices which cause harm to human health, the environment and other natural resources; and to seek redress of these harms through litigation or alternative dispute resolution.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
ERF 2023 STATEMENT OF PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:In 2023 Ecological Rights Foundation continued its work investigating and cleaning up sources of pollution to Californias waterways and habitat degradation in the States aquatic environments. This work includes water and sediment quality monitoring, pursuing cleanups of polluted industrial sites; protecting endangered species, and representing conservationist stakeholders interests in administrative proceedings and citizen enforcement actions under state and federal environmental statues. ERFs accomplishments this past year included settlements and compliance monitoring of agreements under the Federal Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Endangered Species Act, resulting in increased protection for Californias communities, waterbodies, and vulnerable wildlife species. ERF also continued its participation in efforts to protect endangered marine mammals from fishing gear entanglements in Monterey Bay. Ecological Rights Foundations Environmental Health, Awareness and Protection Campaign continued it successful work to reduce consumer exposures to toxic chemicals. ERF continued to focus on protecting…
$39,733 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $39,733.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $101k to $327k (+223%).
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.
0% of ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $74k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS 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
ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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 ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% — diversifying over time.
“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 ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION?
- ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,208 to it, the largest being LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION ($44,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $80,208 in grants to ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION?
- LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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