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SAVED BY NATURE

SAVED BY NATURE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,366 to it, the largest being REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$279k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$358k
Net assets
$48k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Saved by Nature does

Mission

Our mission is to expose, teach and enlighten people of all backgrounds about the nature and our communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. GUIDED NATURE HIKES AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES: WE PROVIDED GUIDED HIKES, CAMPING, FISHING, BOATING AND MORE FOR 879 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS. In comparing to prior year, we concluded Dock of the Bay and Valley Water series. As a result fewer participants in this fiscal year.

    $197,351 spent$217,000 earned by the program
    78% of program spending
  2. At-promise-youth: we coordinated an eight-week-long summer science project, after-school field trips, and backpacking trips for the boys & girls club of silicon valley reaching 1,317 youth

    $44,583 spent$49,000 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  3. Seniors hike for health: we coordinate a monthly seniors hikes for health program that served 182 seniors from our local community

    $11,755 spent$12,700 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $253,689.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2022 Revenue 195 ($129k) Expenses 197 ($109k) Net assets 168 ($48k)2023 Revenue 449 ($296k) Expenses 493 ($273k) Net assets 248 ($71k)2024 Revenue 530 ($349k) Expenses 656 ($364k) Net assets 196 ($56k)2025 Revenue 423 ($279k) Expenses 521 ($289k) Net assets 166 ($48k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (423)Expenses (521)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

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 $48k to $71k (+47%).

$29k
$48k
$71k
$57k
$60k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 19% · 2024 14% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SAVED BY NATURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’21
$19k
’22
$23k
’23
−$15k
’24
−$10k
’25
2.5
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed3710
Joined·+6+8
No longer listed·25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $211k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SAVED BY NATURE’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

SAVED BY NATURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

81% 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 SAVED BY NATURE.

28%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 33% · 2023 47% — 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

44% of SAVED BY NATURE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

SAVED BY NATURE draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

WA
IL
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAVED BY NATURE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SAVED BY NATURE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVED BY NATURE: 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 SAVED BY NATURE?
SAVED BY NATURE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,366 to it, the largest being REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAVED BY NATURE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $358,366 in grants to SAVED BY NATURE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAVED BY NATURE?
REI COOPERATIVE ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAVED BY NATURE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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