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THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP
THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80
- Net assets
- $132M
What The Natomas Basin Conservancy a Calif Non-Profit Public Benefit Corp does
Mission
The natomas basin conservancy serves as the plan operator for the natomas basin habitat conservation plan. It acquires and manages the habitat land for the benefit of the 22 "special status" species covered under the plan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The natomas basin conservancy is a california non-profit public benefit corporation formed in 1994. The conservancy is responsible for collecting mitigation fees required by the natomas basin habitat conservation plan (nbhcp), using these fees to acquire and preserve ecologically significant land in the natomas basin in order to create and maintain a sanctuary or preserve for 22 specified threatened or endangered wildlife and plant species. These sanctuaries or preserves are composed of marsh, wetlands, and agricultural habitat types necessary for the preservation and reproduction of the threatened or endangered species covered under the nbhcp.continued on schedule othe conservancy achieves its purposes by acquiring land and conservation easements in the natomas basin area situated in northen sacramento county and southern sutter county, california. It acts as plan operator of the nbhcp. Along with the u.s. Fish and wildlife service, the california department of fish and wildlife, the county of sutter, and the city of sacramento, the conservancy is a "plan participant" in the nbhcp.
$4,253,141 spent$1,284,383 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,253,141.
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 2020 to 2021, from $90M to $104M (+16%).
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 40% · 2018 22% · 2019 57% · 2020 70% · 2021 31% · 2022 90% · 2023 67% · 2024 43% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% 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.
Chief executive
John Roberts
Executive director
Board chair
Chandra Chilmakuri
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $34.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP’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 NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80 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
THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP
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
93% 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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP?
- THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($80). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80 in grants to THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATOMAS BASIN CONSERVANCY A CALIF NON-PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP 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 2017–2025), 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