California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA
FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,283 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ($54,565). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Parks Californiashared funders
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio match
- Vintage Bmw Houseportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $38k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA’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
FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 36% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 74% — 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
40% of FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Parks Californiashared fundersCA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vintage Bmw Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Lands Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bolton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Porter Sesnon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Park Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parks & Trails New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Save the Redwoods Leagueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schwemm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Food Bank & Family ServiceslocalCA · funds 223 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100%
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 FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA?
- FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,283 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ($54,565). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $117,283 in grants to FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA?
- CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LAKES FOLSOM AND NATOMA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing