California · Nonprofit
PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,988,371 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($618,198). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$944k
Recipients
11
Contributions on record
$3.0M
Donors on record
38
Payments out are 0.32x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- Pebble Beach Company Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Arts Council for Monterey Countylocalportfolio match
- Monterey Peninsula Foundationlocalportfolio 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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $7k → $1.1M.
17 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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.
Where its funders are
67% of PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $984k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
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 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pebble Beach Company Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 82 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council for Monterey Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 50 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Monterey Peninsula Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 144 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nancy Buck Ransom Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The L G Anderson Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agnes B Kline Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bohannon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barnet Segal Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cleo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sally Hughes Church Foundationportfolio 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 PRESERVE COMMUNITY 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.
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 PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,988,371 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($618,198). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,988,371 in grants to PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $618,198 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESERVE COMMUNITY 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.
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 38funders 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