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Land Empowerment Animals People Inc

Land Empowerment Animals People Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,400 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$616k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$733k
Net assets
$565k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Land Empowerment Animals People Inc does

Mission

Facilitate committed and open partnerships and projects that enable habitats, species and cultures to thrive, and to provide sustainable economic activities that place equal value on income security, quality of life and the health of our shared environment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Form 990, Part III, Line 2 - We entered the Methane Awareness education and energy future social benefit space, as detailed in Form 990, Part III, Line 4a

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. We helped fund five eco-cultural resilience programs by our Malaysian partner Forever Sabah Berhad (FS, foreversabah.org) that continue a transition towards a diversified, equitable, circular economy. First, we funded their Forever Sabah: Into a Relational Future program focusing on a broad range of robust and diversified micro-economic growth strategies moving forward. Secondly, in order of funding, we granted specifically to FSs Human Elephant Harmony that continues to grow positive relationships between humans and their wild elephant neighbors. Third, we target funded FSs palm oil transition to diversified agroforestry to meet 2025 government certification goals. Fourth, we supported Oregon State University student on-site education using Forever Sabah Institutes iterative success training models. Fifth, we gave legs to a new Methane Awareness effort in Malaysia with additional funding. Finally, our own program salary and Zoom contributions capped our expenses

    $351,622 spent
    66% of program spending
  2. We funded three of our Malaysian partner LEAP Spirals (LS, leapspiral.org) ongoing programs. Most funding supported LSs Forests and Ape community integration work in thew Lower Kinabatangan & Segama Wetlands. Second was our continuing support for Carbon Sovereign Sabah (leapspiral.org/carbon-soverign-sabah) which helps indigenous communities manage forest resources, educate youth, and spur local business. Third was continued support for LSs Pangolin Rescue Rehabilitation & Release (P3R, leapspiral.org/sundapangolins) program. These grants, together with our program costs helped keep pangolin protection in the news, and engaged wide ranging demographics around forest biodiversity, cultueral participation, and economic growth opportunities.

    $171,342 spentof which $153,406 as grants
    32% of program spending
  3. We again supported another ongoing Bornean project called KampOng Campus, a non-profit eco-literacy and leadership training facility we helped start. This support was mostly managerial time, though we paid for several visiting speaker honorariums for KampOngs leadership training sessions. We also networked at a Methane Conference and covered yearly business fees for the Malaysian LEAP Conservancy. We also continued to directly micro-fund an early project of ours, the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (bsbcc.org.my)even though it remains financially and managerially self-sufficient, is popular with locals, and is an accessible tourist highlight of Borneo.

    $13,657 spentof which $1,103 as grants
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $536,621.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($562k) Expenses 100 ($674k) Net assets 100 ($358k)2020 Revenue 210 ($1.2M) Expenses 92 ($617k) Net assets 258 ($923k)2021 Revenue 47 ($263k) Expenses 73 ($489k) Net assets 194 ($697k)2022 Revenue 58 ($324k) Expenses 98 ($658k) Net assets 101 ($363k)2023 Revenue 144 ($812k) Expenses 97 ($652k) Net assets 146 ($523k)2024 Revenue 109 ($616k) Expenses 85 ($574k) Net assets 158 ($565k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (109)Expenses (85)Net assets (158)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 2019 to 2020, from $361k to $925k (+156%).

$361k
$925k
$699k
$366k
$527k
$567k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Land Empowerment Animals People Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 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.

−$112k
’19
$565k
’20
−$226k
’21
−$334k
’22
$160k
’23
$42k
’24
3.8
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed655654
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·10011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $76k → $52k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
2
1
2
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Land Empowerment Animals People 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

Land Empowerment Animals People Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

39% 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 Land Empowerment Animals People Inc.

55%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — 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

Land Empowerment Animals People Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NY
TX

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Land Empowerment Animals People Inc receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $733k to it.

Operating margin7% · below the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds Land Empowerment Animals People Inc?
Land Empowerment Animals People Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,400 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Land Empowerment Animals People Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $733,400 in grants to Land Empowerment Animals People Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Land Empowerment Animals People Inc?
ARCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Land Empowerment Animals People 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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