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THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES

THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,681,644 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($937,404). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$516k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$-241658
4/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Project for Resilient Communities does

Mission

Organized in response to the catastrophic debris flow in the montecito area on january 9, 2018 that resulted in the loss of 23 lives as well as damage and/or destruction of approximately 470 structures, The Project for Resilient Communities was organized to evaluate the on-going risks from future potential debris flows, to research and identify reasonable means to reduce the risks and/or the effects of future debris flows, and to oversee the installation of debris flow nets to help protect the montecito community. The organization is also charged with the ongoing oversite and maintenance of the nets, including environmental concerns, over the nets five-year permit period.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Debris flow net research, installation, maintenance, and environmental oversight.

    $1,583,717 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,583,717.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($567k)2020 Revenue 21 ($621k) Expenses 16 ($550k) Net assets 112 ($637k)2021 Revenue 0 ($2k) Expenses 15 ($538k) Net assets 18 ($101k)2022 Revenue 5 ($160k) Expenses 10 ($358k) Net assets -17 ($-97094)2023 Revenue 47 ($1.4M) Expenses 45 ($1.6M) Net assets -51 ($-291805)2024 Revenue 17 ($516k) Expenses 13 ($466k) Net assets -43 ($-241658)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (17)Expenses (13)Net assets (-43)Peer revenue range

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 $68k to $1.1M (+1571%).

$730k
$802k
$271k
$68k
$1.1M
$1.2M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 85% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$541k
’19
$71k
’20
−$536k
’21
−$199k
’22
−$195k
’23
$50k
’24
0.7
months of
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

Patrick Mcelroy

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2019202020232024
Listed5555
Joined·+0·+0
No longer listed·0·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $802k → $207k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES’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 PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES.

56%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 48% — 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.

Where its funders are

57% of THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES'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 $719k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

IL
NJ
CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $962k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sdf Resilience Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES?
THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,681,644 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($937,404). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,681,644 in grants to THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $937,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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