California · Nonprofit
Ethos Environmental Inc
Ethos Environmental Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Ethos Environmental Inc does
Mission
Ethos Environmental is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping rural communities and small family farms thrive. The organization provides practical, compassionate assistance to rural individuals and community groups facing environmental, economic, geographic, and physical challenges. Ethos Environmental supports responsible environmental stewardship, wildfire resilience, watershed protection, and community safety while also strengthening local grassroots organizations through fiscal sponsorship and project development assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the year, Ethos Environmental expanded its work in three significant ways: 1. The organization launched the Spyrock Safe Access and Roadside Fuels Reduction effort, a substantially larger wildfire resilience initiative than prior years. This work includes reducing hazardous roadside vegetation along critical evacuation and emergency-access routes in the Spy Rock and greater Laytonville area, improving the ability of emergency responders and residents to safely enter and leave remote communities during wildfire events. 2. Ethos Environmental developed a new Spyrock Resilience program focused on reducing wildfire risk and improving long-term environmental resilience in the Spy Rock area. The program combines wildfire transmission reduction with erosion-control strategies by creating and maintaining strategic fuels reduction areas and using resulting woody biomass to stabilize gullies and vulnerable slopes. This work is intended to reduce wildfire spread, protect roads and homes, and decrease erosion and sediment delivery to the Eel River watershed. 3. The organization increased its fiscal sponsorship and project-management capacity to support additional grassroots community groups. Ethos Environmental currently provides fiscal sponsorship and administrative support to local projects including Spy Rock Ready! Fire Safe Council, the Mendocino Craft Farmers Auction, and the Mendo Cup, and began improving its intake and tracking systems to expand that support.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The organizations largest program service accomplishment during the year was the Spyrock Safe Access Roadside Fuels Reduction project. Ethos Environmental worked with local residents, Fire Safe Councils, and partner agencies to reduce hazardous roadside vegetation along main trunk access roads in the Spy Rock community. These roads serve as the only access and evacuation routes for many rural households. Dense roadside vegetation, narrow travel corridors, and accumulated fuels had created substantial wildfire risk and threatened the ability of emergency responders to reach homes. Project activities included planning and implementing roadside vegetation reduction, developing long-term maintenance strategies, coordinating with local volunteer groups, and prioritizing roads serving elderly, disabled, and otherwise vulnerable residents. The project also supported maintenance of emergency access to fire-water tanks and improved the likelihood that firefighters and medical responders could safely reach homes during emergencies. The project produced significant public benefit by improving evacuation safety, reducing wildfire transmission risk, increasing access for emergency responders,…
$804,637 spentof which $989,272 as grants$13,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $804,637.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Ethos Environmental Inc’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Ethos Environmental Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
Ethos Environmental Inc 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
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ethos Environmental Inc?
- Ethos Environmental Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ethos Environmental Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,500 in grants to Ethos Environmental Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Ethos Environmental Inc?
- MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ethos Environmental Inc 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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