California · Nonprofit
The Human Nature Center
The Human Nature Center (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166,000 to it, the largest being WILD WISDOM FOUNDATION INC (FORMERLY A CERAMI & A DUNNE FDN FOR WORLD HEALTH) ($166,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $77k
What The Human Nature Center does
Mission
The Human Nature Center is a 501c3 mobile Ecology Arts Shop based in Ventura, California. We connect people to Nature and to each other through hands-on acts of growing and making. We use the arts as teaching tools for ecology. Our name comes from our belief that Humans are Nature, so when we nurture nature were also taking care of ourselves. The Human Nature Center exists to help people of all ages reconnect with the basic cycles of life and to re-infuse our daily living with deeper meaning as tenders of life on earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Human Nature Center is a 501c3 mobile Ecology Arts Shop based in Ventura, California. We connect people to Nature and to each other through hands-on acts of growing and making. We use the arts as teaching tools for ecology. Our name comes from our belief that Humans are Nature, so when we nurture nature were also taking care of ourselves. The Human Nature Center exists to help people of all ages reconnect with the basic cycles of life and to re-infuse our daily living with deeper meaning as tenders of life on earth.
$39,413 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $53k to $72k (+36%).
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.
100% of The Human Nature Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $37k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of The Human Nature Center’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Human Nature Center'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
The Human Nature Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like The Human Nature Center
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Human Nature Center?
- The Human Nature Center (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $166,000 to it, the largest being WILD WISDOM FOUNDATION INC (FORMERLY A CERAMI & A DUNNE FDN FOR WORLD HEALTH) ($166,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Human Nature Center have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $166,000 in grants to The Human Nature Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Human Nature Center?
- WILD WISDOM FOUNDATION INC (FORMERLY A CERAMI & A DUNNE FDN FOR WORLD HEALTH) is the largest funder on record, with $166,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Human Nature Center 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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