California · Nonprofit
Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL
Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,323,737 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($2,107,563). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $130k
What Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL does
Mission
We work to integrate the science of natural assets with tools, policies and management decision-making for public benefit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP) will create a framework to increase wildfire resilience for the wildland urban interface (WUI) communities located in the south coast region of Santa Barbara County, and is funded by the National Wildlife Foundation. The Program will transform the front country into a fire-adapted region with reduced wildfire risk to the communities, the built environment and natural systems, while allowing wildfire to play a regenerative role across the landscape.
$1,574,898 spent$330,119 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,574,898.
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 2022 to 2023, from $338k to $3.0M (+781%).
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: 2020 48% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 9% · 2024 17% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
David Saah
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $540k → $757k.
From the IRS filings of Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL’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
Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 73% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
91% of Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
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 Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Spatial Informatics Group LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL: 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 Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL?
- Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,323,737 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($2,107,563). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,323,737 in grants to Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,107,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory SIG-NAL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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