California · Nonprofit
Nature Nexus Institute
Nature Nexus Institute (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,814 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($95,896). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $377k
- Net assets
- $188k
What Nature Nexus Institute does
Mission
Nature Nexus Institutes mission is to support and manage community-led habitat restoration, youth leadership, and conservation programs that promote equitable access to Los Angeles open spaces and the natural environment. To cultivate an appreciation of and respect for nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Field trip program - Educational trips for schools to nature sites
$191,516 spent33% of program spendingHabitat Restoration Program - community volunteers help to restore native plant habitat
$195,438 spent$59,969 earned by the program34% of program spendingInternship Program - high school and college/community participants receive stewardship training.
$190,971 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $577,925.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $74k to $188k (+153%).
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: 2023 1% · 2024 57% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Nature Nexus Institute’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 4 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
Stacey Vigallon
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $129k.
2 of 15 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 Nature Nexus Institute’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
Nature Nexus Institute 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
79% 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 Nature Nexus Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of Nature Nexus Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Nature Nexus Institute has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Nature Nexus Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$928k
- Department of the Interior$148k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Nature Nexus Institute
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Nature Nexus Institute: 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 Nature Nexus Institute?
- Nature Nexus Institute (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,814 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($95,896). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nature Nexus Institute have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $376,814 in grants to Nature Nexus Institute, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nature Nexus Institute?
- COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $95,896 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nature Nexus Institute 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15 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