California · Nonprofit
SMART COAST CALIFORNIA
SMART COAST CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,804 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ISSUES MOBILIZATION POLITICAL ACTION COM ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SMART COAST CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- North Carolina Association of Realtors Incshared funders
- Coastal Questportfolio match
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
70% of SMART COAST CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250k → $360k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SMART COAST CALIFORNIA’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
SMART COAST CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
100% 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 SMART COAST CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of SMART COAST CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 3 funders put you well-backed among the 303 organizations that share them.
- North Carolina Association of Realtors Incshared fundersNC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Coastal Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Santa Barbara Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Apartment Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Watershed Research & Training Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation San Luis Obispoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SMART COAST CALIFORNIA
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
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMART COAST CALIFORNIA: 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.
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 SMART COAST CALIFORNIA?
- SMART COAST CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,804 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ISSUES MOBILIZATION POLITICAL ACTION COM ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMART COAST CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,085,804 in grants to SMART COAST CALIFORNIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART COAST CALIFORNIA?
- CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ISSUES MOBILIZATION POLITICAL ACTION COM is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART COAST CALIFORNIA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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