California · Nonprofit
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,827,551 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,244,015). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Sequoia Parks Conservancy does
Mission
The Sequoia Parks Conservancy funds and enables projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to the natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon national parks.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2023 the Sequoia Parks Conservancy funded programs that focused on public access and inclusivity; visitor safety and preventative search and rescue and nature wildlife stewardship.rangers in the classroom, popular with elementary school administrators, teachers and students alike. Twenty-five thousand tulare and kings county students get first-hand, grade-level learning with a ranger focused on natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon. Participating students are given a park entrance fee waiver to encourage them to bring their families to the parks after their ranger in the classroom visit.maintaining, updating and improving park accessible trails and experience is a core value. The conservancy created the first-of-its-kind deaf and hard-of-hearing tour of crystal cave, financially supported maintaining and rebuilding accessible trails for those with mobility constraints, and promoted those for the public.seasonal safety in these two parks is always a priority and needs support. The conservancy supported search and rescue with swiftwater training and technical equipment.we are proud to support the park's wild bear project and the restoration of high elevation…
$1,359,673 spent$191,540 earned by the program52% of program spendingThe conservancy works with the park to carefully create, produce, or choose products that capture the intellectual, recreational and emotional connections people make in these two parks. The product line recognizes and values the needs and interests of a wide variety of visitors. Products teach about the natural and cultural resources of these parks for youngsters through a plush native animal line, books, postcards, and maps of local and regional area, and wearable products such as t-shirts or hats that convey a specific park theme, connection or message. Retail stores see visitation of up to one million people annually.
$1,260,448 spent$2,750,709 earned by the program48% of program spendingThe u.s. Army corps lake kaweah is a local favorite for boating and water recreation. The Sequoia Parks Conservancy runs a small store inside the visitor contact station.
$4,173 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,624,294.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $5.3M (+41%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Matthew Macia
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $210k → $172k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 83% · 2019 53% · 2020 68% · 2021 37% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
28% of SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $347k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.5M
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 SEQUOIA PARKS 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEQUOIA PARKS 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 SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY?
- SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,827,551 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,244,015). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,827,551 in grants to SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,244,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEQUOIA PARKS 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 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing