California · Nonprofit
HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY
HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,024 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($485,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy does
Mission
As a nonprofit corporation, the conservancy works with local, state and federal agencies and property owners to acquire, restore and manage the coastal wetlands in the orange county coastal zone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The huntington beach wetlands, consist of 180 acres of restored wetlands habitat along the southern coastline of huntington beach. The conservancy owns and manages these wetlands and continues to work hand-in-hand with the california department of fish and wildlife to restore the wetlands in the orange county area.
$959,741 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $959,741.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.9M to $9.3M (+35%).
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: 2017 47% · 2018 40% · 2019 66% · 2020 81% · 2021 10% · 2022 65% · 2023 48% · 2024 86% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Guido Dave
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $175k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY’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
HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 64% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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
60% of HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
73% of HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY'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 $333k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $917k 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
HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $381k on record.
- Department of Defense$331k
- Department of the Interior$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY: 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 HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY?
- HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,024 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($485,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,250,024 in grants to HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $485,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY 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 12 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