California · Nonprofit
Sacramento Area Creeks Council
Sacramento Area Creeks Council (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,640 to it, the largest being ERNST & GERTRUDE TICHO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Sacramento Area Creeks Council does
Mission
Sacramento Area Creeks Council (SACC) seeks to promote public and private care of natural streams and waterways through education, advocacy and hands-on activity. Educational materials, workshops and field outings are some of the tools used to achieve these goals. SACC: provides support for creek, waterway, open-space and neighborhood cleanups; participates in the decision-making processes which affect the health of Sacramento area waterways, and in the land use planning process to promote creek preservation, sound flood control project design, habitat restoration and effective stream bank stabilization methods; distributes educational materials encouraging the teaching of science concepts and holds community workshops on creek issues; supports on-going volunteer water quality monitoring efforts; co-sponsors grants to preserve and restore creeks and their natural corridors; SACC offers educational materials and participates in neighborhood fairs and public events, working with schools,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, Sacramento Area Creeks Council (SACC) was proud to act as fiscal sponsor for two outstanding groups which were able to become tax exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code: River City Waterway Alliance (RCWA) and Waterbird Habitat Project (WHP). During its third year of operations alone, the volunteer group RCWA (rivercitywaterwayalliance.org) removed 1.2 million pounds of trash from Sacramento area waterways over 307 events. This milieu of trash included 7,500 needles, 556 shopping carts, 540 tires, 253 mattresses and some 2,100 pounds of batteries, both large and small. Since its inception, RCWA has removed over three million pounds of trash, and continued to enrich its relationships with partner organizations: the County and City of Sacramento, American River Flood Control District, RD1000, Forensiclean, ACTenviro and others. Removal of invasive plants, such as primrose, has become a feature at cleanup events, and plans are afoot for more extensive removal activities. RCWA is moving from strength-to-strength as it continues to increase its volunteer roster and provide much needed aide to our rivers and creeks which have suffered…
$81,454 spentof which $2,826 as grants$112,384 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,454.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $78k to $107k (+38%).
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: 2023 33% · 2024 21% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Sacramento Area Creeks Council’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Sacramento Area Creeks Council’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
Sacramento Area Creeks Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
43% 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 Sacramento Area Creeks Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Sacramento Area Creeks Council draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Sacramento Area Creeks Council has grown faster than three-quarters 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 Sacramento Area Creeks Council
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Sacramento Area Creeks Council: 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 Sacramento Area Creeks Council?
- Sacramento Area Creeks Council (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,640 to it, the largest being ERNST & GERTRUDE TICHO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sacramento Area Creeks Council have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,640 in grants to Sacramento Area Creeks Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Area Creeks Council?
- ERNST & GERTRUDE TICHO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacramento Area Creeks Council 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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