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SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP

SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,016,065 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($827,843). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.3M
Revenue FY2025
35
Funders on record
$3.0M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
20/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%

Against its field

SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP's revenue grew 140% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($278k)2018 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 1 ($14k) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 119 ($1.7M) Expenses 137 ($1.8M) Net assets 62 ($172k)2020 Revenue 118 ($1.6M) Expenses 91 ($1.2M) Net assets 213 ($592k)2021 Revenue 157 ($2.2M) Expenses 142 ($1.9M) Net assets 320 ($889k)2022 Revenue 169 ($2.4M) Expenses 198 ($2.6M) Net assets 217 ($604k)2023 Revenue 220 ($3.1M) Expenses 204 ($2.7M) Net assets 460 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 241 ($3.4M) Expenses 248 ($3.3M) Net assets 479 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 240 ($3.3M) Expenses 251 ($3.3M) Net assets 501 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (240)Expenses (251)Net assets (501)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2019 26% · 2020 29% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 38% · 2024 40% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
17
$14k
18
$169k
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$420k
20
$297k
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$284k
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$341k
23
$52k
24
$11k
25
4.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $27k → $898k.

10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

58% 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 SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP.

27%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 42% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 66% · 2022 49% · 2023 28%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

54% of SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

52% of SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $16k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$2.1M

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 SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

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 SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP?
SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,016,065 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($827,843). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,016,065 in grants to SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $827,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing