California · Nonprofit
Test Plot Inc
Test Plot Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Test Plot Inc does
Mission
Test Plot is a nonprofit organization formed to support community-led land stewardship through the creation and long-term care of experimental native habitat gardens in degraded urban parks. The organization partners with local communities and land managers to restore ecological health build pollinator and wildlife habitat and cultivate lasting connections between people and place. Through monthly workdays paid fellowships and multi-year site commitments Test Plot cultivate a land ethic rooted in community care and ecological stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Test Plot designs plants and maintains native plant gardens in underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods transforming neglected or degraded park land into thriving pollinator habitat and community green space. Across 17 plot locations the organization hosted monthly volunteer stewardship days engaged community members in hands-on ecological restoration and coordinated with city agencies and land managers to ensure coordinated land-care efforts. Program activities included invasive species removal native plant installation seed collection and propagation biodiversity monitoring and watershed education. Sites supported native bee butterfly and bird species contributing to regional habitat connectivity. The organization also trained paid youth fellows to build local capacity for ongoing land stewardship. Key outcomes: stewarded 108,000sf of land converting from flashy fuels to native habitat supervised 13,500 volunteer hours trained 90 youth participants in paid workforce positions published 13 log posts.
$107,500 spentof which $107,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,500.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jennifer Toy
Board President and Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Test Plot Inc’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
Test Plot Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Test Plot Inc.
“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
83% of Test Plot Inc'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
Test Plot Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like Test Plot Inc
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Test Plot Inc: 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 Test Plot Inc?
- Test Plot Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Test Plot Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,000 in grants to Test Plot Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Test Plot Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Test Plot Inc 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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