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FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY

FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,300 to it, the largest being The Harlan Family Foundation ($4,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$47k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$15k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Families Protecting the Valley does

Mission

The purpose of the nonprofit corporation is to protect and conserve water resources of california, in general, and the san joaquin valley, in particular; and promote knowledge and awareness of these issues and how they affect agriculture and the general economy of california, in genereal, and the san joaquin valley, in particular.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

The organization made major strides in informing the public about current water use as it pertains to farming and urban use in the central san joaquin valley, and it's fiscal impact on the valley

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2018 Revenue 186 ($66k) Expenses 90 ($71k) Net assets 95 ($90k)2019 Revenue 57 ($20k) Expenses 88 ($70k) Net assets 42 ($40k)2020 Revenue 131 ($47k) Expenses 89 ($71k) Net assets 16 ($15k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (131)Expenses (89)Net assets (16)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $90k to $40k (−56%).

$95k
$90k
$40k
$15k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$44k
’17
−$5k
’18
−$50k
’19
−$24k
’20
2.5
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed4444
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY’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 FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY: 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 FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY?
FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,300 to it, the largest being The Harlan Family Foundation ($4,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,300 in grants to FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY.
Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY?
The Harlan Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAMILIES PROTECTING THE VALLEY 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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