California · Nonprofit
Mini Nature Reserve
Mini Nature Reserve (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,472 to it, the largest being Village and Wilderness Project Inc ($18,222). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Mini Nature Reserve receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $51k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Scott Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundationlocal
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Mini Nature Reserve’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
Mini Nature Reserve leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 Mini Nature Reserve.
“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
Mini Nature Reserve draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Scott Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sherwood Country Club Charitable FoundationlocalCA · funds 52 organizations near you
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Malibu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Outsideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- El Gato Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Mendocino Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dyer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calaveras Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving J Symons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schwemm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Mini Nature Reserve
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mini Nature Reserve: 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 Mini Nature Reserve?
- Mini Nature Reserve (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,472 to it, the largest being Village and Wilderness Project Inc ($18,222). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mini Nature Reserve have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $51,472 in grants to Mini Nature Reserve.
- Who is the largest funder of Mini Nature Reserve?
- Village and Wilderness Project Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mini Nature Reserve 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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