California · Nonprofit
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,367 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($885,255). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $506k
What People Resources and Conservation Foundation does
Mission
To conserve biodiversity ecosystems and local cultural identities through participatory solutions that protect and promote the wise use of natural resources help prevent forest degradation and deforestation support the socio-economic development of communities and enable adaptation to climate change. The organizations geographical focus is in South-East Asia working with local deprived communities living at the edge of protected areas high conservation value forests and degraded lands. The organization works with local grassroot groups small promising national conservation organizations and relevant government agencies at local and national level.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collaborative Conservation Management Program - Collaborative Conservation Management and Development - Through this program the organization helped strengthen measures and conditions for local communities to participate in the protection of forest with high conservation value including threatened species and their sustaining habitat. This program includes social forestry silviculture and forest restoration measures within conservation landscapes. The program is specifically designed to provide guidance and support to remote communities in Indonesia and Vietnam with the objective of promoting and implementing effective conservation management practices in these regions. Expenses figure is an estimate and may overlap with other initiatives as most species research and conservation work is funded through integrated programs covering multiple conservation components.
$943,912 spent70% of program spendingConservation Governance and Management Through this program the organization supported and helped advance biodiversity conservation measures in protected area landscapes in 2024 through working with protected area authorities and local communities. Specific activities within the program have included strengthening the conservation and management capacities of protected area authorities and working with local civil society to further conservation of natural resources particularly in Indonesia Thailand Vietnam but also in Papua New Guinea. Some of the work under this program includes social forestry for habitat restoration and forest protection in high conservation value forests near areas or within conservation area landscapes. Most of the work under this program is carried out with the involvement of local stakeholder communities. Expenses figure is an estimate and may overlap with other initiatives as most species research and conservation work is funded through integrated programs covering multiple conservation components.
$134,845 spent10% of program spendingSpecies Research and Conservation The organization undertakes comprehensive biodiversity research at key sites developing and implementing targeted strategies to safeguard threatened species and their habitats. In addition to these scientific efforts the program actively engages with local communities and government stakeholders to strengthen conservation management in high-conservation value forest landscapes. By fostering collaborative approaches and building local capacity the organization enhances the protection of biodiversity including endangered species eg. Tapanuli Orangutan Eastern Lowland Gorilla Red-capped Mangabay Francois Langur Gray Shanks Langur Lar Gibbon Agile Gibbon Siamang Gibon Eastern Black Crested Gibbon Hoolock Gibbon Sumatran Tiger Clouded Leopard other. and their habitat and associated species and promotes sustainable stewardship of high conservation value forests in the regions where it operates. Expenses figure is an estimate and may overlap with other initiatives as most species research and conservation work is funded integrated programs covering multiple conservation components.
$269,689 spent20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,348,446.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $248k to $826k (+233%).
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.
100% of PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’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 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $41k → $237k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’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
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 70% · 2022 97% · 2023 84% — 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
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION draws 100% 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. $26 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
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: 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 PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,250,367 to it, the largest being ARCUS FOUNDATION ($885,255). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,250,367 in grants to PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- ARCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $885,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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