California · Nonprofit
Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve
Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve does
Mission
Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve ("FOMTNP") was formed in 2009, and was formally incorporated in December, 2012 as a non-profit corporation. It became an official support group of the City in 2014. The purpose of the FOMTNP is to support the City in implementing the Mission Trail Nature Preserve Master Plan, including the removal of invasive flora. Since 2009, FOMTNP has, among other works, conducted, on a regular basis (now on the second Saturday on each month), work parties in the Preserve resulting in thousands of volunteer hours of work, removing invasive plants from the Preserve by hand and performing other light maintenance.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve continued their stewardship of the preserve, contributing labor, funding, and coordination with the city to implement our Annual Work Program. Highlights included:Continued removal of invasive plants with the goals of both promoting the growth of native plants and reducing wildfire risk. In particular, this year we did extensive removal of both poison hemlock and wild radish, both of which dry out to become fire fuel. In addition, we continued to remove acacia sprouts and highly flammable genista.Planting of native grasses to reestablish a marsh meadow near one of the park entrances.Planting of native trees in an area recently cleared of invasives.Preparing a 2,500 square foot site for new redwood plantings.Creating our first educational sign board to teach visitors about the root system of our native Monterey Pine trees.Closing a dangerous section of one of our trails and rerouting that trail, which involved building a new footbridge.Collaborating with the city and the fire department on their Fire Defense Plan, influencing that plan to be more protective of native species. Related to this, we widened the main trail to improve…
$34,341 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $46k to $129k (+178%).
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.
76% of Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve’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 Mission Trail Nature Preserve leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 77 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve?
- Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $115,000 in grants to Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Mission Trail Nature Preserve?
- BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Mission Trail Nature 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 2 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