California · Nonprofit
Pando Populus Inc
Pando Populus Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,782 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($56,275). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $-69381
What Pando Populus Inc does
Mission
To create a more sustainable and equitable future through education programs for civic engagement, focusing on Los Angeles County and guided by its sustainability plan the most ambitious regional plan in the country.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, our educational mission remains helping young people do amazing things for the Greater LA region and the world. We remain an educational organization with a civic engagement focus on sustainability. Our programs target higher ed, K-12, and non-traditional learners, in working collaboration with NGOs, community and faith based partners, government and public agency officials, and sustainability professionals. Our work remains highly consistent with our founding mission.Our web-based presence (www.pandopopulus.com) remains as an active information and education hub; and we continue active social media presence primarily at this point over Facebook. Our newsletter, ROOTBALL, goes out to our community every month with progress updates and involvement solicitations. Our YouTube channel archives our video content.Special Initiatives for 2023 included:-The fourth season of Pando Days, our flagship program bringing together colleges and universities from across the California Southland to help implement Los Angeles County's ambitious social and environmental goals, as articulated in its plan, OurCountyLA.LACounty.gov. Pando Days works at the intersection of higher ed and public…
$206,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $206,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $72k to $190k (+166%).
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 0% · 2021 29% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Pando Populus Inc’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. 5 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Pando Populus Inc’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
Pando Populus Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
54% of Pando Populus Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
Pando Populus Inc's revenue grew 31% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pando Populus Inc
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 Pando Populus Inc: 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 Pando Populus Inc?
- Pando Populus Inc (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,782 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($56,275). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pando Populus Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $139,782 in grants to Pando Populus Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pando Populus Inc?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pando Populus Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 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