California · Nonprofit
Pacifica Land Trust
Pacifica Land Trust (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101 to it, the largest being ESB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Pacifica Land Trust does
Mission
The purpose of the Pacifica Land Trust is to preserve, protect and enhance the natural, scenic, recreational, cultural, historic and open space environment including waterways and wildlife corridors of Pacifica and the surrounding community for present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
California Coastal Conservancy Pedro Point Headlands Stewardship grant - The grant supports Pedro Point Headlands Stewardship Program for community-based habitat restoration and trail enhancement at Pedro Point Headlands by hosting volunteer workdays. Volunteers restored and improved natural habitat and trails by assisting with tasks such as controlling invasive species, revegetating landscape scars, and preventing erosion. Volunteers also assisted by completing minor repairs to existing trails to improve visitor safety and address erosion.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 $565k to $129k (−77%).
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 97% · 2018 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Pacifica Land Trust’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $280.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Pacifica 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
Pacifica Land Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 56% · 2023 71% — 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
100% of Pacifica 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. $401 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
Pacifica Land Trust runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,054 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,054 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Pacifica 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.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pacifica 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 Pacifica Land Trust?
- Pacifica Land Trust (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101 to it, the largest being ESB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pacifica Land Trust have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,101 in grants to Pacifica Land Trust, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacifica Land Trust?
- ESB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacifica 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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