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THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,469,756 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,001,117). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $38M
What The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County does
Mission
We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the central coast. We connect people to the land and to each other.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The land conservation program establishes voluntary land protection agreements (conservation easements) with family farmers, ranchers, and landowners. The land conservancy also buys properties in fee title and receives gifts/donations of land. The program focuses on identifying and protecting san luis obispo county lands with important scenic, agricultural, habitat and cultural values. The land conservancy staff prepare grant applications and proposals, draft agreements, identify land management goals and objectives, and conduct monitoring of each property on an annual basis. The conservancy has protected 67,582 acres to-date.
$3,288,010 spent$76,836 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe outreach and volunteer support program focuses on engaging community members in the mission of the organization and educating the public about land resources in san luis obispo county. The program works to build support for the organization through collaborative partnerships, volunteer activities, educational events, and outreach opportunities throughout the county. Currently the organization has 1,354 individual/household members (non-voting) and 137 business members (non-voting). The organization e-newsletter reaches 6,471, and the annual report goes out to approximately 1,700 people.
$1,124,885 spent$177,554 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe stewardship and restoration program implements projects that focus on supporting healthy wildlife habitat, improving water quality, sustaining our local water supply, and protecting man-made infrastructure and farm fields. The program focuses on streams, wetlands, coastal dunes, and historic landmarks. Restoration and stewardship care program staff develop grant proposals, prepare permit applications and restoration plans, implement restoration activities, and monitor project results.
$1,677,074 spent26% of program spendingThe youth education program focuses on providing opportunities for school-aged children to learn about nature through innovative programming using oak woodlands and other natural lands for hands-on experiential learning. Through partnerships with local public schools, the program trains and empowers childeren as future conservationists, instilling leadership and science skills. Thousands of students benefit from the program each year.
$302,971 spent$6,770 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,392,940.
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 2019 to 2020, from $25M to $36M (+41%).
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 49% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% · 2020 4% · 2021 75% · 2022 68% · 2023 25% · 2024 82% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kaila Adriane Dettman Hooker
Secretary/exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $558k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Inland Empire Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY’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 LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 84% · 2020 69% · 2021 63% · 2022 50% · 2023 47% — 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
42% of THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
70% of THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.0M
- Department of Defense$805k
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 LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY?
- THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,469,756 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($1,001,117). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,469,756 in grants to THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,001,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY 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 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing