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HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC

HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,300 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($124,490). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$92k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$152k
Net assets
$47k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Homestead Valley Land Trust Inc does

Mission

To protect, maintain, and restore marin county-owned open space and parklands within homestead valley for the benefit of sustainable public enjoyment, wildlife habitat, and wildland fire safety.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The organization maintains more than 80 acres of designated public use, open space in a community of over 1,100 families. Maintenance includes trail management and maintenance, and fire-prevention projects.

    $73,805 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,805.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($221k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2021 Revenue 59 ($130k) Expenses 107 ($175k) Net assets 47 ($40k)2022 Revenue 43 ($96k) Expenses 42 ($69k) Net assets 69 ($58k)2023 Revenue 47 ($103k) Expenses 65 ($106k) Net assets 66 ($56k)2024 Revenue 36 ($80k) Expenses 56 ($92k) Net assets 52 ($44k)2025 Revenue 42 ($92k) Expenses 55 ($90k) Net assets 55 ($47k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (42)Expenses (55)Net assets (55)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $85k to $40k (−53%).

$85k
$40k
$58k
$56k
$44k
$47k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 81% · 2022 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’20
−$45k
’21
$27k
’22
−$3k
’23
−$12k
’24
$3k
’25
10
months of
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.

20202022
Listed410
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $28k.

Funder
'19
'20
'22
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC’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

HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82% 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 HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC.

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 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

82% of HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’22
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC's revenue fell 58% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: 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 HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC?
HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,300 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($124,490). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $152,300 in grants to HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC?
CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $124,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOMESTEAD VALLEY LAND TRUST INC 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 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