California · Nonprofit
REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE
REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,582 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($11,582). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationlocal
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio match
- Vintage Bmw Houseportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
0% of REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Salt Lake Arts Council FoundationlocalUT · funds 59 organizations near you
- California State Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vintage Bmw Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redlands Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Green Heatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillsborough Garden Club Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Mendocino Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Petit Teton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Save the Redwoods Leagueportfolio 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.
Organizations like REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE: 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 REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE?
- REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,582 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($11,582). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,582 in grants to REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE?
- PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $11,582 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDWOOD FOREST INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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