California · Nonprofit
ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL
ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,382 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 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 FY2023
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $254k
What Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council does
Mission
The purpose of the Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council (efhgtc) shall be to provide an open forum for the members of the community to express their interests, ideas and issues to maintain the quality of rural community living to act as a representative of the community in dealing with outside interests and to preserve the uniqueness and character of our area.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Trails - the communities of harmony grove and elfin forest take pride in their rural character. Hiking and horseback riding are common among our residents and visitors alike. For decades the Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council has built and maintained trails that are accessible by our community of several thousand residents and tens of thousands of visitors each year.
$9,401 spentLegal - the mission of the Elfin Forest Harmony Grove Town Council (efhgtc) is to maintain the quality of rural community living . . . And to preserve the uniqueness and character of our area. In 2018 the efhgtc found it necessary to file two california environmental quality act suits to prevent two housing developments from being built in our community which would violate our community plan and current zoning and would endanger the lives of our residents by not providing a secondary exit in the case of a fire in violation of the california fire code. Th e town council raised the funds to pay attorney fees from generous contributions from within and outside our community. In 2020 an appeals court upheld that verdict. This win benefited the several thousand people who live in the community and the tens of thousands of people who come to our community each year to walk and ride horses on our community trails. Expense amount reported here excludes prior year legal fees that were refunded.
$7,370 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $58k to $254k (+335%).
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.
100% of ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Scott Sutherland
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $84 → $92.
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 ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL’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
ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL'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. $26k 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
ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL's revenue fell 89% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,066 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL
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.
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL?
- ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,382 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 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 ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,382 in grants to ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELFIN FOREST HARMONY GROVE TOWN COUNCIL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), 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