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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $626k
- Net assets
- $32M
What Natural Communities Coalition does
Mission
To encourage preservation, enhancement and restoration of natural resources within the designed reserve through interaction with the public agencies, conservation-oriented organizations, property owners and the interested public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Monitoring coordination - the annual monitoring of species and natural communities of the reserve is the way ncc measures the success of land management actions and impacts of public recreation, and how it tracks the ecological health of species for which nroc was established. In addition to ongoing ecological monitoring efforts, ncc conducted two focused target bird species monitoring efforts - california gnatcatcher and coastal cactus wren across the reserve. Additionally, ncc completed a reserve-wide monitoring effort resulting in a reclassification of vegetation communities.
$1,110,947 spent51% of program spendingRestoration and enhancement - working with landowners and land managers that make up the more than 37,000 acre nature reserve of orange county (nroc), ncc conducted a series of workshops introducing these participating members into the effective use of a newly revised habitat restoration and enhancement plan developed by ncc. The multiple year workshop will result in the restoration of 50 acres of coastal sage srub (css) and the skills learned will promote additional acres of the habitat restoration across nroc. Efforts further benefit the three target species and 31 additional species identified in the natural community conservation plan (nccp) and habitat conservation plan (hcp) which are the science underpinnings of nroc.
$1,033,986 spent47% of program spendingCowbird trapping - ncc continued its annual obligation to trap brownheaded cowbird to manage their impacts on protected bird species. Cowbirds are brood parasites. Female cowbirds lay their eggs in the nest of other native birds. The species to which the nest belongs unknowingly raise the cowbird chick often to the detriment of their own chicks. In areas where cowbird populations are high, traps are used to lower their numbers and increase reproductive and fledgling success of bird species parasitized by cowbirds. A total of nearly one dozen traps were deployed for a total of more than 2,400 trapdays in the reserve where cowbird impacts on protected songbirds are potentially high.
$39,547 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,184,480.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $33M to $27M (−17%).
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
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.
Chief executive
James Sulentich
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 state 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
NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATURAL COMMUNITIES COALITION
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
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.
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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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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