California · Nonprofit
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,252 to it, the largest being WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($123,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $453k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center does
Mission
Mt. Shasta Bioregional Ecology is a community of people inspired to honor, protect, and restore our world-renowned mountain environment. We advocate strong enforceable protections for our mountain, for clean air and water, for healthy forests and wildlife habitat. We do this by fostering ecological and community resilience, supporting local stewardship and restoration activities, incorporating cultural and community values as the foundation of our actions, engaging in intergenerational education, and stewarding our home ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Fire Resiliency: This program strengthens wildfire resilience in Siskiyou County by deepening community relationships and expanding on-the-ground mitigation efors-all provided at no cost to participants. MSBEC leads and coordinates collaborative efforts with partner organizations, agencies, and residents to assess needs, build local capacity, and organize events that foster neighborhood connection and cohesion. Free educational workshops empower residents with the knowledge and tools to prepare for wildfire risks. These efforts directly support physical resilience projects-including fuels reduction, home hardening, and improving ingress and egress---tailored to the unique needs of each subcommunity.
$29,560 spent$36,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingProtect Medicine Lake Highlands & Aquifer: For nearly 30 years in partnership with the Pit River Nation and Stanford Law Clinic, MSBEC sought protection against extractive practices. Recently achieving a national monument designation for some of the region, MSBEC continues to defend that status and progress on the management plan. MSBEC holds free educational outings in the region. MSBEC continues to seek protection for the water through state mechanisms.
$66,021 spentof which $112,063 as grants$116,967 earned by the program31% of program spendingFiscal Sponsorship: MSBEC serves as fiscal sponsor for Culinary Action for Education, Mount Shasta Mycological Society and RAD Camp's mobile greenhouse.
$17,877 spent$3,515 earned by the program8% of program spendingForest and Watershed Watch: MSBEC works to safeguard regional forest habitats and to preserve the rich diversity of the mountain environment. MSBEC participates in environmental review processes and monitoring for new proposals as well as review of new agency analyses and plans. MSBEC monitors Forest Service Schedule of Proposed Actions to evaluate impacts and provides early comments in the environmental review processes.
$23,104 spentof which $16,750 as grants$19,750 earned by the program11% of program spendingWild spaces
$34,116 spentof which $105,000 as grants$105,000 earned by the program16% of program spendingVarious projects, eco camp, earth day, community education, home program, wcf
$41,804 spent20% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,482.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $91k to $256k (+182%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $48k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER’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
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
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 MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 49% · 2020 39% · 2021 46% · 2022 67% · 2023 52% — 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
43% of MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER?
- MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $424,252 to it, the largest being WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($123,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $424,252 in grants to MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER?
- WALTER AND KARLA GOLDSCHMIDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $123,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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