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ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL
ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,270 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($258,270). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The Watershed Research & Training Centerlocalportfolio match
- Spirit of Kindness Foundationlocal
- National Association of Conservation Districtsportfolio 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: 2019 10% · 2020 1% · 2022 49% · 2023 90% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL’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. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $64k.
From the IRS filings of ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL’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
ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 96% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 340 organizations that share them.
- The Watershed Research & Training Centerlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Spirit of Kindness FoundationlocalDE · funds 11 organizations near you
- National Association of Conservation Districtsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonneville Environmental Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schwemm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Resources Legacy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Rivers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Lands Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lazar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coalitions & Collaboratives 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.
Government funding ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.0M
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 ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL: 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 ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL?
- ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,270 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($258,270). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $451,270 in grants to ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL?
- The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $258,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL 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 3funders 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