California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,348 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,529,089). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Sacramento Valley Conservancy does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is the preservation, protection, aquisition, and/ or enhancement of land in its natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, forested and open space condition in the greater sacramento valley california area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, svc completed 11 new conservation projects, permanently protecting 1,292 acres of riparian, vernal pool, and grassland habitats. The successful closing of these projects resulted in the addition of eight new conservation easements and the assumption of long-term management responsibility for three properties. This work improves flood resiliency in the sacramento valley and south yuba county, while supporting local agriculture.the conservancy secured up to $2,650,000 through the california department of conservation's sustainable land conservation grant, with $150,000 in matching funds from sac sewer, to fund the purchase of a conservation easement on a 190-acre agricultural and riparian property in the vineyard area of sacramento county.the conservancy formally entered into long-term management agreements with the south sacramento conservancy agency (ssca) for two preserves, thereby establishing the conservancy as the primary organization for land management practices within the south sacramento habitat conservation plan area. Additionally, as a consultant, the conservancy will develop six long-term management plans for pre-dedicated preserves which the ssca holds in fee…
$1,026,765 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,026,765.
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 2021 to 2022, from $27M to $23M (−14%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 8% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
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
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.
Chief executive
Kelly Hopkins
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $95k → $33k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 VALLEY CONSERVANCY’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
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 VALLEY CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 95% · 2019 88% · 2020 39% · 2021 51% · 2022 80% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY'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
82% of SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY'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 $431k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of the Interior$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 VALLEY CONSERVANCY: 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 VALLEY CONSERVANCY?
- SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,330,348 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,529,089). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,330,348 in grants to SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $1,529,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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