California · Nonprofit
Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)
Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $571 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($571). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $571
- Net assets
- $76k
What Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) does
Mission
SOMA is an educational, public benefit corporation dedicated to the study and research of mycology to encourage public education of the unique and beneficial role fungi play in maintaining the health of our woodland system.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In the fiscal year we consulted with Hospital Emergency Health Care Personnel to assist in identification of wild mushrooms as possible cause of patient poisoning. In addition we awarded 22 scholarships ranging from $500 to $2500 to Ph.D. and Graduate students, and community scientists. SOMA led 9 forays to collect and identify wild mushrooms and 8 educational lectures attended by about 1500 members of the public. Our organization held a 4-day Wild Mushroom Camp in January consisting of 9 forays, with DNA analysis and photography of wild mushrooms found. 40+ educational lectures, workshops, and demo's, for 325 people.
$54,024 spentof which $7,834 as grants95% of program spendingEducational Wild Mushroom Forays - 9 events, approx 1000 people
$1,691 spent3% of program spendingEpicurean Events - 1 holiday party for 50 people
$1,356 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,071.
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 2017 to 2018, from $87k to $77k (−12%).
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.
5% of Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $320 → $116.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $571 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.
Against its field
Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) has grown faster than half of the 2,055 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,055 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA): 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 Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)?
- Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $571 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($571). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $571 in grants to Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA), 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA)?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $571 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sonoma County Mycological Association (SOMA) 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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