California · Nonprofit
Mendocino Land Trust
Mendocino Land Trust (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,810 to it, the largest being THE MIDGLEY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Mendocino Land Trust runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ukiah Adventist Hospitallocal
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationportfolio match
- Trees Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 37% · 2018 60% · 2019 50% · 2020 51% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 20% · 2024 12% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Mendocino Land Trust’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $53k → $137k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Mendocino Land Trust’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
Mendocino Land Trust has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 37% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 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
64% of Mendocino Land Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
74% of Mendocino Land Trust's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ukiah Adventist HospitallocalCA · funds 15 organizations near you
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peninsula Open Space Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Momentum Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Coast Heritage Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fields Pond Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Timberlands Charitable Trust Co Linda S Dalby Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mendocino Food and Nutrition InclocalCA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Mendocino County Fire Safe Council InclocalCA · funds 16 organizations near you
- Frank R Howard FoundationlocalCA · funds 16 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Mendocino Land Trust
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Mendocino Land Trust: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mendocino Land Trust?
- Mendocino Land Trust (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,810 to it, the largest being THE MIDGLEY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mendocino Land Trust have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,028,810 in grants to Mendocino Land Trust, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mendocino Land Trust?
- THE MIDGLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mendocino Land Trust 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing