California · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER
ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,647,912 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($795,166). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Environmental Nature Center does
Mission
To provide quality education through hands-on experience with nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the 2024-25 program year, 30,810 people participated in Environmental Nature Center (enc) programs. Enc staff naturalists delivered over 60,000 hours of environmental education, providing hands-on learning experiences that deepen understanding of biodiversity, habitat conservation, and the connection between healthy ecosystems and human well-being. The enc nature preschool operated at full capacity, serving 72 children daily. Approximately $11,000 was allocated to scholarships for families experiencing financial hardship, ensuring access to high-quality, nature-based early childhood education. The preschool liaison program continued to support educators by modeling outdoor, nature-based teaching strategies. On-site field trips reached a new high, supported by expanded programming at the enc tucker wildlife sanctuary. A total of 304 field trips served 17,898 students across both campuses. More than $13,000 in scholarships supported access for 4,735 students from 75 title I schools, ensuring that cost was not a barrier to participation. The traveling naturalist program delivered 199 programs to 7,635 students. The program has adapted by expanding into after-school settings…
$2,105,335 spent$2,290,346 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,105,335.
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 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $17M (+16%).
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.
19% of ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER’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. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Bo Glover
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $416k → $267k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 40% · 2019 55% · 2020 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 26% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER
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
84%
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 ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER?
- ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,647,912 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($795,166). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,647,912 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $795,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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