California · Nonprofit
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,735 to it, the largest being PACIFIC FOREST & WATERSHED LANDS STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL ($624,953). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $753k
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Northern California Regional Land Trust does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. The organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and enhance the natural, agricultural, historic, environmental, wildlife, and recreational values to maintain quality of life in butte, glenn, and tehama counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization acquires, holds, manages, and directs the disposition of land in a manner designated to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural, agricultural, historical, environmental, wildlife, and recreational values of such lands. Additional activities include the education of the public on matters relating to land use, planning for preservation and conservation purposes, and encouragement of sound public and private conservation practices with respect to land and water resources.
$106,140 spent$480,517 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $106,140.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $4.4M (+21%).
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: 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST’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. 3 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
Cynthia Graves Perrine
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $65k → $32k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST’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
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 64% · 2023 43% — 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
95% of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST
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
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST: 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 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST?
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,735 to it, the largest being PACIFIC FOREST & WATERSHED LANDS STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL ($624,953). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $752,735 in grants to NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST?
- PACIFIC FOREST & WATERSHED LANDS STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $624,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL LAND TRUST 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 8 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