California · Nonprofit
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,158 to it, the largest being WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ($171,658). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $432k
- Net assets
- $105k
What The Chaparral Lands Conservancy does
Mission
The mission of the Conservancy is to protect shrubland ecosystems through land preservation and stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Otay Mesa Vernal Pool II&III - Uplands Habitat Restoration Project - To plan, permit and implement restoration of approximately seventeen acres of rare vernal pool wetlands, maritime succulent scrub, and several dependent imperiled plant and animal species in the City of San Diego community of Otay Mesa.
$271,248 spent59% of program spendingSky Oaks Project - This project is designed to acquire for permanent conservation the 640-acre Sky Oaks property in Chihuahua Valley in eastern San Diego County
$12,640 spent3% of program spendingDel Mar Mesa I: Design, plan, permit, and implement restoration of rare vernal pool wetlands, chaparral, coastal sage scrub,and several dependent imperiled plant and animal species in and near the Del Mar Preserve in the northern city of San Diego.
$169,352 spent37% of program spendingOther Projects: Los Coyotes Condors Project - to work with the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians to support endangered species conservation on and around the Los Coyotes Reservation in eastern San Diego County.
$8,028 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $461,268.
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 $759k to $566k (−25%).
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: 2017 98% · 2018 89% · 2019 80% · 2020 86% · 2021 70% · 2022 63% · 2023 62% · 2024 48% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Chaparral Lands Conservancy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $187k → $15k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 The Chaparral Lands 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
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 The Chaparral Lands Conservancy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 32% · 2022 75% · 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
60% of The Chaparral Lands Conservancy's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding The Chaparral Lands Conservancy receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$52k
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 The Chaparral Lands 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Chaparral Lands Conservancy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Chaparral Lands Conservancy?
- The Chaparral Lands Conservancy (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,158 to it, the largest being WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ($171,658). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Chaparral Lands Conservancy have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $432,158 in grants to The Chaparral Lands Conservancy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Chaparral Lands Conservancy?
- WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $171,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Chaparral Lands 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.
Play a game about who funds Chaparral Lands Conservancy →
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 7 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