California · Nonprofit
NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION
NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $626,073 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($626,073). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION is better cushioned than half 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.
- Davis Conservation Foundationshared funders
- American Bird Conservancyportfolio match
- Kisco Cares 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 8% · 2018 2% · 2019 19% · 2020 42% · 2021 12% · 2022 23% · 2023 14% · 2024 14% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $70k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $626k 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.
- Davis Conservation Foundationshared fundersME · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- American Bird Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kisco Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tareen Filgas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends of Tracy Aviaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bobolink Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Audubon Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- El Gato Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The White Pine Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Temper of the Times Foundation Incportfolio 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 NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
17%
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 NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION: 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 NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION?
- NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $626,073 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($626,073). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $626,073 in grants to NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $626,073 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION 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 1funders 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