California · Nonprofit
SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY
SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,784 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($48,287). 4 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 FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $81k
What South Bay Parkland Conservancy does
Mission
Since 2004, the South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC) has been committed to preserving open space and creating more parks in the coastal cities of the South Bay in Los Angeles, CA. We are dedicated to helping make the community a better place by encouraging and assisting with the acquisition of Parklands. We work with residents, local and state government, and other like-minded organizations in our efforts to preserve parkland for todays generation, and for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
HOPKINS WILDERNESS PARK RESTORATIONSince 2017, SBPC has been working with the City of Redondo Beach, youth groups, and teams of community members to rewild portions of Hopkins Wilderness Park. We host year-round opportunities in the park that help people connect with nature, learn, and make a difference. SBPC also hosts an annual Earth Day Celebration at the park.
$15,049 spentof which $20,573 as grants26% of program spendingESPLANADE BLUFF RESTORATIONAs a founding member of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly Coalition, our shared goal is to restore habitat along the beach bluffs, from the Ballona Wetlands to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, with SBPC focusing on the Esplanade bluffs in Redondo Beach and Torrance. This transformational work continues in collaboration with US Fish & Wildlife Service, Los Angeles Conservation Corps, and community members, as we continue to restore habitat on the Esplanade Bluff.
$19,585 spentof which $18,660 as grants34% of program spendingREDONDO BEACH COMMUNITY GARDENSSBPC opened the FIRST Redondo Beach Community Garden at Alta Vista Park June 2023. Work continues with community partners, volunteers, and residents to develop educational programming and to open a second location in North Redondo.
$2,291 spentof which $6,167 as grants4% of program spendingHERMOSA VALLEY GREENBELT TRAIL RESTORATIONSBPC began work with the City of Hermosa Beach in 2022 to provide native pollinator plants to support butterflies. A year later, the project resulted in a lovely super bloom and educational opportunities as well as collaborations with local organizations. The work continues to expand into new areas of the Greenbelt.
$10,455 spentof which $11,881 as grants18% of program spendingESPLANADE BLUFF GARDENThe Esplanade Bluff Garden is located west of the Esplanade, between Avenue A and Knob Hill Avenue, on a small piece of property owned by the County of Los Angeles, which overlooks the beautiful Pacific Ocean. Although the parcel had some drought-tolerant landscaping, it was not being adequately maintained and it did not provide habitat for California native species. In 2020, SBPC saw this site as an opportunity to support native wildlife and pollinators by transforming the garden into a hybrid native garden, with an emphasis on pollinator-friendly plant species.
POLLINATOR GARDENSSBPC collaborates with schools and youth organizations, like the Girl Scouts, to plant pollinator gardens on school campuses and sites throughout the South Bay. These gardens are havens for breeding butterflies and are an excellent educational tool for students. SBPC established a nursery at Madrona Marsh to grow native plants for use in pollinator gardens and across projects.
$5,262 spentof which $8,968 as grants9% of program spendingSBPC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDSBPC continues to sponsor a scholarship at Redondo Union High School with an emphasis on students planning to major in environmental science and/or have volunteered in environmental organizations during high school.
$4,150 spentof which $1,915 as grants7% of program spendingSBPC CERTIFIED NATIVE HABITAT PROGRAMProperty owners play an important role in creating patch habitats for endangered pollinators. By converting common landscaping into certified native habitat, yards become islands of habitat in a growing network of wilderness throughout the South Bay.
EDUCATION OUTREACHSBPC partners with students, educators, environmental specialists, and local professionals to provide outdoor educational opportunities, resources, and project experience to students and community members interested in the local ecology. Participants of all ages learn valuable skills in conservation while making a difference in their own communities through programs such as the Junior Urban Naturalist Program and the Student Ambassador Collective.
ALONDRA PARK ISLANDIn 1998 an El Camino College professor founded a California native plant garden on the Alondra Park island. SBPC, joined the effort in 2022 to increase volunteer workdays and continue the restoration of the Alondra Park Island Native Garden.
ADOPT A PARK TORRANCEIn cooperation with the City of Torrance, SBPC co-leads habitat restoration at the Henrietta Basin, seeking to maintain and expand the existing native habitat while converting underutilized land into a productive space for community place-making and educational opportunities.Through co-leading community-based habitat restoration events, SBPC assists the City of Torrance and Seaside Heroes Park Conservation (SHPC) to remove invasive plant species, install California native plants, and provide educational opportunities for schools and the general public.
The 11 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $59k to $81k (+36%).
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.
98% of SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $28.
6 of 6 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 SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY’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
SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 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
100% of SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY'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. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $119k on record.
- Department of the Interior$119k
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 SOUTH BAY PARKLAND 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY?
- SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,784 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($48,287). 4 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 SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $95,784 in grants to SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH BAY PARKLAND CONSERVANCY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $48,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH BAY PARKLAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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