California · Nonprofit
PLACER NATURE CENTER
PLACER NATURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,982 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Placer Nature Center does
Mission
Educational
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nature Camp - a series of afterschool and summer day camps for children. Camp themes include plants, animal wildlife, minerals and fossils, insects, birds and water cycles. Approximately 400 children benefitted.
$30,663 spentof which $7,900 as grants39% of program spendingStudent Activities - approximately 250 students visited the Nature Center in 2023 for education in natural and social sciences. Program themes include habitats, watersheds, ecology, wildlife biology, and cultural history of the Sierra Nevada foothills. Programs meet California Science Standards to enrich curricula.
$28,119 spentof which $5,800 as grants36% of program spendingFamily and Community Education Programs - outdoor classes for children and adults to learn about and experience nature and gardening while also contributing to the Nature Center facility by cleaning and maintaining gardens and nature trails, and planting native plants and trees. Approximately 100 people benefitted.
$9,611 spentof which $1,800 as grants12% of program spendingOther programs and services that the Nature Center offered include Hiking Trails and Exhibits - the Nature Center includes a 1-mile nature walking trail through oak woodland. the Center's 5-acre preserve is home to various species of wildlife. Educational exhibits include the Watershed Learning Center, Changing Lands exhibit, the Discovery Room which includes a view inside a live beehive, and a garden containing ornamental and native plants and a composting center. Off-site Programs - docents visit schools to deliver classes and activities, including science literacy programs for young children, and programs in habitat and environmental science for school-age children. Virtual Learning Programs - The Nature Center has lesson plans, video programs, and video nature hikes available on the Center's website to allow parents and teachers to share our curriculum with children at home. Lesson plans include Maidu (Native American) studies, geology, ecology, birds and bugs, habitat, animal signs and tracks, life cylces, and more.
$10,498 spentof which $748 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,891.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $52k (+145%).
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.
65% of PLACER NATURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kathy Davidson
Executive Director
Board chair
Mary Weeks
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $33k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PLACER NATURE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
PLACER NATURE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 72% · 2021 58% · 2022 90% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of PLACER NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PLACER NATURE CENTER draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
PLACER NATURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,135 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like PLACER NATURE CENTER
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
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PLACER NATURE CENTER: 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 PLACER NATURE CENTER?
- PLACER NATURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,982 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLACER NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $138,982 in grants to PLACER NATURE CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLACER NATURE CENTER?
- THE GEORGE W BAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLACER NATURE CENTER 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 14 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