California · Nonprofit
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,367 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($552,290). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $905k
What Resource Renewal Institute does
Mission
The Resource Renewal Institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fish in the fields - arkansas: an ecological solution for resilient rice cultivation.fish in the fields (fif) integrates rice farming and fish cultivation to promote biodiversity, produce sustainable protein, improve carbon cycling, and strengthen agricultural communities. It is a modern, climate-smart adaptation of an age-old practicerecognized by the un as a globally important agricultural heritage system. Fif is designed to work seamlessly with conventional rice growing practices. After harvest, fish are introduced into fallow flooded rice fields, where they grow rapidly in these plankton-rich environments. Fif is proving that winter rice fields are highly productive systems for raising fish, and the introduction of small fish improves nutrient cycling. In 2022, we expanded the fif project from ca to ar. In 2025, we launched a new partnership with isbell farms lucky catch a social enterprise that produces dehydrated pet treats from sustainably raised fif minnows.
$228,114 spent44% of program spendingPublic landsrestore point reyes national seashore: advocating for the public and wildlife in a beloved national park.after a decade of advocacy, rri celebrated a landmark settlement to end nearly all commercial ranching within the seashore by 2026, paving the way for large-scale restoration, improved visitor access, and public recreation. Our agreement with nps and 18 ranch leaseholders resulted in a settlement to wind down cattle operations on 17,000 acres of parkland. Once the terms of the agreement have been met, our lawsuit will be dismissed. We are developing and coordinating the transition support plan in partnership with the nature conservancy, providing payments to displaced ranch workers and tenants whom we advocated for from the very beginning of the process. We helped secure a 2.7m. Grant to fund infrastructure removal including miles of barbed-wire fencing and to plan for habitat restoration and monitoring across an initial 3,000 acres of degraded parklands. We're working with tribal governments, partner organizations, and legislative leaders to secure more restoration funding.collaboration and engagement: local and global partnerships.rri continues to lead in…
$178,816 spent34% of program spendingOceans and riversprotecting marine biodiversity: campaign to eliminate avoidable bycatch.rri championed and co-sponsored assembly bill 1056 with oceana and assemblymember steve bennet, which sets the stage for the eventual elimination of all set gillnet permits and the indiscriminate harm and death they cause to "bycatch" marine wildlife. Ab 1055 passed the california legislature in 2025 and was recently signed into law by governor newsoma major step forward for marine conservation and sustainable fishing practices.defending the bay-delta: working to safeguard california's water future.launched in 2025, our project aims to protect clean water, healthy ecosystems, and cultural resources in the delta, the source of drinking water for 25 million californians. The san francisco bay delta coalition, convened by rri, unites tribal nations, conservation organizations, farmers, fishermen, and policy advocates in a shared effort to defend the region's ecological and cultural integrity. In 2025, the coalition successfully prevented legislation that would have advanced the delta tunnel and weakened california environmental quality act regulations for water quality control plans.instream…
$95,905 spent18% of program spendingRri's legacy programs:defense of placehuey johnson founded defense of place as "a small, nimble watchdog organization" to defend public lands whose protective deeds and statutes are breached by for-profit corporations, government entities, and other institutions. Since 1997, defense of place has joined citizen activists from maryland to california to protect threatened parks, nature preserves, wildlife refuges, open spaces, and conservation easements from sale, development, and predatory changes in use. Forces of nature: environmental elders speaklaunched in 2013, our video interview series showcases 167 inspiring individuals whose long careers have made a positive impact on our environment, including interviews with huey johnson, dr. Marty griffin, stewart brand, susie washington, sylvia mclaughlin, malcolm margolin, and david forman. The archive continues to realize its mission as a rich source of inspiration and historical information for authors, scholars, and activists. Beginning in 2025, these interviews can also be viewed on spotify.rri fiscal grantees:rri continues to provide fiscal sponsorship to impactful projects and their leaders: tailless, a journey to save chile's…
$20,822 spentof which $11,498 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $523,657.
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. 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 $884k to $1.8M (+107%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE’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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Elizabeth Baker
Chair and secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $144k → $88k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 RESOURCE RENEWAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 27% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 38% · 2022 49% · 2023 34% — 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
53% of RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
56% of RESOURCE RENEWAL 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. Of the $585k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 RESOURCE RENEWAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE?
- RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,367 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($552,290). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,343,367 in grants to RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $552,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESOURCE RENEWAL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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