California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($95,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $998k
What Friends of Edgewood Natural Preserve does
Mission
Friends of Edgewood Natural Preserve engages in land and wildlife stewardship nature education and interpretive programs that support Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve. Our mission is to protect Edgewoods extraordinary biodiversity and foster lasting connections with Edgewood and the larger natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land and Wildlife Stewardship We protect and restore the animal and plant habitat of Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve engaging volunteers and professional habitat restoration ecologists. Activities include: habitat restoration seed amplification weeding of non-native plants Blue Bird box monitoring camera trapping adopt-a-highway volunteers plant mapping and county weed management area liaison
$44,543 spent74% of program spendingNature Education We provide volunteers to staff the Education Center at Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve update exhibits and maintain the office. We provide a quarterly newsletter. Additional activities include maintenance of the native plant garden wildflower surveys maintaining a display of plants in flower and an online field guide of plants and animals found at Edgewood. We also participate in educational outreach at local events.
$7,398 spent$1,503 earned by the program12% of program spendingInterpretive Programs We conduct free docent-led walks for the public in Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve training new docents each year. Additional activities include: trail ambassadors and trail signage.
$5,356 spent$600 earned by the program9% of program spendingStrategic Partnerships
$2,750 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,047.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $512k to $714k (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 18% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $200 → $31k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2020 51% · 2021 79% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
65% of FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE'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. Of the $119k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE?
- FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($95,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $342,500 in grants to FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF EDGEWOOD NATURAL PRESERVE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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