California · Nonprofit
OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND
OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,247 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Ojai Valley Defense Fund does
Mission
Promote efforts to preserve the environmental quality of ojai valley for the general public by providing funds to pay the legal fees and costs incurred by organizations who are undertaking legal action to protect and sustain the environmental quality of ojai valley.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promote efforts to preserve the environmental quality of ojai valley for the general public by providing funds to pay the legal fees and costs incurred by organizations who are undertaking legal action to protect and sustain the environmental quality of ojai valley.
$5,550 spent100% of program spendingThe Ojai Valley Defense Fund played a major role in helping to turn back mining interests' plans to convert highways 33 and 150 into corridors for massive industrial gravel trucking, destroying the environment, livability and local economy of the ojai valley.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,550.
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 2017 to 2018, from $753k to $1.0M (+33%).
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.
122% of OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Victoria Breen
Finance chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100 → $15k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND’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
OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 66% — 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
97% of OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND'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. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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
OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND
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
49%
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 OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND: 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 OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND?
- OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,247 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $52,247 in grants to OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OJAI VALLEY DEFENSE FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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