California · Nonprofit
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $630k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Trust for Public Land Action Fund does
Mission
Nonprofit support of park and conservation funding.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The Trust for Public Land Action Fund assisted in 13 state and local ballot measure campaigns in 5 states and participated in statewide legislative efforts in support of conservation funding in 1 state.
$844,427 spentof which $130,483 as grants$5,489 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $844,427.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.5M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Caroline P Niemczyk
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $100k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Trust for Public Land). These are real filings, and they are not money THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND’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 TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Organizations like THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Trust for Public Land · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (32) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND?
- THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,500 to it, the largest being GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $107,500 in grants to THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND?
- GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ACTION FUND 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 2 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