California · Nonprofit
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,382 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($814,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills does
Mission
Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy: Green Foothills champions the protection of nature, wildlife, and people in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties through advocacy, education, and grassroots action. Our goal is to ensure that local land use decisions support open space, biodiversity, and sustainability. We achieve this by influencing decision-making on land use policy and proposals to better promote climate resilience and biodiversity. We provide the support and information needed for current and future decision-makers to be champions for conservation, and we leverage diverse partnerships to support smart and inclusive climate solutions. In 2025, our vocal and steadfast opposition to a plan for increased development along the Monterey Road corridor in Coyote Valley persuaded the City of San Jose to abandon that plan. Because Monterey Road runs alongside Coyote Creekthe backbone of Coyote Valleys wildlife corridordevelopment in this area would have severely disrupted the safe movement of wildlife between the two mountain ranges, so this was a key victory. Our advocacy also led to permanent protection of 412 acres of farmland in and near the City of Gilroy when the Santa Clara County Open Space…
$729,283 spentof which $290 as grants81% of program spendingCommunity Building Programs: Leadership, Tribal/Indigenous Partnerships, Healing in Nature. Our Leadership Program trains and invests in community members of all backgrounds in equitable, inclusive environmental activism in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties. This year marked our 12th cohort and the third year we offered the program tuition-free and in Spanish and English, thanks to generous support from donors. The program builds community leader capacity that harnesses the power of collaboration within communities and mobilizes change agents to advance equitable, inclusive environmental activism locally. The Program aims to create pathways for people from all backgrounds to engage in and lead conservation work to help broaden representation in the local conservation movement. Leadership Program alumni 1) assume leadership roles where they apply a lens of environmental advocacy and cultural humility in their work; 2) initiate and join successful campaigns that advance Green Foothills mission and vision; and 3) are involved in the Green Foothills community. 2025 impact metrics: 22 local changemakers graduated (including 2 Spanish speakers) for a total of 300 alumni…
$173,753 spentof which $15,296 as grants19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $903,036.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $3.1M to $4.0M (+29%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $553k → $1.0M.
13 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills’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
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
76% 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 Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 55% · 2019 76% · 2020 30% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — 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
55% of Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
94% of Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills: 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 Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills?
- Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,793,382 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($814,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,793,382 in grants to Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $814,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 30 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