California · Nonprofit
SAVE THE GRAVES INC
SAVE THE GRAVES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,200 to it, the largest being El Dorado Community Foundation ($15,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Save the Graves Inc does
Mission
Save the graves is dedicated to the restoration and protection of el dorado couonty cemeteries and the preservtion of the histoy and stories contained therin. We celebrate the cemeteries and their history with projects, activities and events which contribute to our mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, save the graves successfully transitioned from a local gathering into a significant regional cultural attraction, hosting nearly 1,000 attendees and drawing visitors from over 10 states. Our data indicates that 10% of guests to our annual cemetery fundraiser traveled from outside el dorado county, with a heavy draw from the greater sacramento area, directly advancing the county's tourism and economic goals. Beyond attendance, our work fueld a robust volunteer program involving hundreds of participants. By engaging younger generations in hands-on preservtaion, we have fostered a lifelong connection to local history, ensuring these hallowed grounds remain respected and maintained for years to come. The impact of our work has also triggere a powerful "replication effect," positioning our unique blend of theater, history, and restoration as a gold standard for preservation. While out-of-state visitors traveled specifically to study our model for their own communities, local civic organizations--including the d.a.r., the emblem club, and the odd fellows--have already implemented restoration programs in el dorado hills, placerville, and mosquito under our guidance. Ultimately,…
$35,024 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,024.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $63k (+51%).
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.
100% of SAVE THE GRAVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SAVE THE GRAVES INC’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
SAVE THE GRAVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
95% 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 SAVE THE GRAVES INC.
“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
95% of SAVE THE GRAVES INC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SAVE THE GRAVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAVE THE GRAVES INC
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAVE THE GRAVES INC?
- SAVE THE GRAVES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,200 to it, the largest being El Dorado Community Foundation ($15,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVE THE GRAVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,200 in grants to SAVE THE GRAVES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE THE GRAVES INC?
- El Dorado Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE THE GRAVES INC 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 3 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