California · Nonprofit
Friends of Rose Canyon
Friends of Rose Canyon (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,260 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($156,820). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $263k
- Net assets
- $582k
What Friends of Rose Canyon does
Mission
Protect, Preserve and Restore Rose Canyon and The Rose Creek Watershed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education Activities Objective To connect people with nature. To educate and inspire people to support environmental protection and restoration, particularly in Rose Canyon and the Rose Creek watershed. To educate people about San Diegos biodiversity and the threats to it. Activities We provided free guided nature walks in Rose Canyon and Marian Bear Park for 38 elementary school classes from 7 area schools the walks included the teachers and many parents. We had a booth at a large community event at which we had a licensed presenter of live native wildlife. Many of our Environmental Stewardship activities listed below were also educational.
$37,798 spent26% of program spendingResearch, Outreach, Advocacy, Lobbying Objective To protect Rose Canyon and the Rose Creek watershed and nearby undeveloped lands from negative impacts, and to support their conservation and habitat restoration. Activities we monitored plans that would have negative impacts to the habitat in Rose Canyon and the Rose Creek watershed, and we advocated for elimination of those impacts.
$13,085 spent9% of program spendingEnvironmental Restoration/Stewardship Objective To remove invasive plants and restore native habitat in Rose Canyon to engage the public in habitat restoration planting, weeding, and watering, and to educate people about our native plants and animals. Activities we contracted with a non-profit organization and a restoration company to conduct habitat restoration in Rose Canyon, which we planned and oversaw. We logged 825 restoration volunteer hours, with a total of 272 volunteers and 44 events. Volunteers removed invasive plants planted, weeded and watered native plants and planted acorns to restore native oaks. We coordinated our activities with City of San Diego Open Space Park Rangers.
$95,790 spent65% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,673.
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. 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 $405k to $665k (+64%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 15% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Friends of Rose Canyon’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. 6 of the last 9 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 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $19k → $17k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 Rose Canyon’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 Rose Canyon leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 Rose Canyon.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of Friends of Rose Canyon'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 $101k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k 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.
Against its field
Friends of Rose Canyon holds deeper cash reserves 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 Rose Canyon
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 Rose Canyon: 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 Friends of Rose Canyon?
- Friends of Rose Canyon (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,260 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($156,820). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of Rose Canyon have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $263,260 in grants to Friends of Rose Canyon, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Rose Canyon?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $156,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Rose Canyon 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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