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Tejon Ranch Conservancy

Tejon Ranch Conservancy (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,498 to it, the largest being BATEY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($380,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$573k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$579k
Net assets
$-9025927
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Tejon Ranch Conservancy does

Mission

To preserve, enhance, and restore the native biodiversity and ecosystem values of the Tejon Ranch and Tehachapi Range for the benefit of California's future generations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To systematically explore Tejon Ranch to document and better understand its natural resources and ecosystems.

    $457,333 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. To provide public opportunities to learn about, explore, and experience the beauty and diversity of the Ranch, as well as conservation in action through volunteer opportunities.

    $117,265 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. To develop sound stewardship paractices that maintain, enhance, and restore the Ranch's ecosystems.

    $11,727 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $586,325.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($500k) Expenses 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 46 ($228k) Expenses 84 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 86 ($428k) Expenses 57 ($914k)2020 Revenue 22 ($109k) Expenses 47 ($747k)2021 Revenue 68 ($339k) Expenses 38 ($617k)2022 Revenue 32 ($161k) Expenses 38 ($611k)2023 Revenue 41 ($203k) Expenses 25 ($398k)2024 Revenue 115 ($573k) Expenses 46 ($732k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.6M to $3.3M (+29%).

$1.4M
$1.4M
$2.0M
$2.6M
$3.3M
$2.9M
$2.9M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 5% · 2023 19% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of Tejon Ranch Conservancy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.1M
’17
−$1.1M
’18
−$486k
’19
−$638k
’20
−$277k
’21
−$449k
’22
−$195k
’23
−$159k
’24
24
months of
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

Jaron Cramer

President & CEO

Board chair

Joel Reynolds

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1313121112131413
Joined·+1+1+1+2+1+1+0
No longer listed·1221001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $41k → $85k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Tejon Ranch 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

Tejon Ranch Conservancy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

66%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 99% · 2021 82% · 2022 81% · 2023 53% — 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

22% of Tejon Ranch Conservancy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

96% of Tejon Ranch Conservancy's grant income comes from California funders.

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CA
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Tejon Ranch Conservancy holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−28% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve24.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Tejon Ranch Conservancy receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.

Federal$50k
grants $50kcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$50k

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 Tejon Ranch Conservancy

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tejon Ranch Conservancy?
Tejon Ranch Conservancy (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,498 to it, the largest being BATEY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($380,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tejon Ranch Conservancy have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $579,498 in grants to Tejon Ranch Conservancy, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tejon Ranch Conservancy?
BATEY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $380,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tejon Ranch 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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