California · Nonprofit
SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION
SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,642 to it, the largest being KAPHAN FOUNDATION ($219,114). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $599k
- Net assets
- $657k
What Sugar Pine Foundation does
Mission
The Sugar Pine Foundation is dedicated to restoring sugar pines and other native pines by involving the community in hands on restoration activities in order to inspire forest stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fire Restoration - in 2025 we planted 22,510 tree seedlings to restore 300 acres with 1581 volunteers
$99,463 spent$104,802 earned by the program60% of program spendingMonitoring and watering of about 10,000 tree seedings planted over the past year
$41,443 spent$41,921 earned by the program25% of program spendingEnvironmental Education - in collaboration with the South Tahoe Environmental Coalition we lead educational stations for over 2000 k-12 students.
$24,865 spent$20,960 earned by the program15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,771.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $472k to $598k (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Maria Mircheva
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $34k → $102k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION’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
SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
40% 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 SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 57% · 2019 63% · 2020 52% · 2021 65% · 2022 48% · 2023 35% — 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
27% of SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k 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.
Organizations like SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION: 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 SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION?
- SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,642 to it, the largest being KAPHAN FOUNDATION ($219,114). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $598,642 in grants to SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION?
- KAPHAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $219,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUGAR PINE FOUNDATION 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 21 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