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TOMPKINS CONSERVATION

TOMPKINS CONSERVATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,746,671 to it, the largest being ZOMA FOUNDATION INC ($5,000,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$877k
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$8.2M
25/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Tompkins Conservation does

Mission

See schedule o Tompkins Conservation is dedicated to protecting and restoring wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in chile, argentina and the united states. As a nonprofit organization, Tompkins Conservation's goal is to preserve intact ecosystems, to support acquisition and protection of privately owned wildlands, and ultimately to return its landholdings to the public domain for permanent protection in the form of national parks or reserves.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. See schedule oalong with protecting habitat, Tompkins Conservation supports the rewilding programs in chile and argentina that are helping diminished wildlife populations return to abundance, and reintroducing missing native species to reassemble whole and healthy natural communities.

    $700,000 spentof which $700,000 as grants
    31% of program spending
  2. See schedule oTompkins Conservation continues to support the creation of protected areas on land and sea. Grants were made to purchase and support the efforts of creating national parks that are key to the rewilding program in argentina and chile.

    $1,032,569 spentof which $1,032,569 as grants
    46% of program spending
  3. See schedule ogrant for the Tompkins Conservation archive project to provide the general public access to the information on the preservation, conservation and rewilding efforts of the organization.

    $220,000 spentof which $220,000 as grants
    10% of program spending
  4. Provided support for fundraising and development efforts of the organization in argentina to raise funds for protecting habitat and rewilding programs; grants to suport rewilding projects to help diminished wildlife populations return to abundance, and reintroducing missing native species to reassemble whole and healthy natural communities in the united states; and distribution of books as tools to educate the general public on various environmental issues and on the creation of national parks as a way to preserve ecosystems and a recovery process of thereatened species.

    $297,486 spentof which $235,487 as grants
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,250,055.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($122M)2021 Revenue 164 ($21M) Expenses 208 ($43M) Net assets 82 ($100M)2022 Revenue -119 ($-15388347) Expenses 44 ($9.2M) Net assets 62 ($75M)2023 Revenue -428 ($-55603445) Expenses 27 ($5.7M) Net assets 12 ($14M)2024 Revenue 23 ($3.0M) Expenses 27 ($5.5M) Net assets 10 ($12M)2025 Revenue 7 ($877k) Expenses 21 ($4.3M) Net assets 7 ($8.2M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (7)Expenses (21)Net assets (7)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 $75M to $14M (−81%).

$122M
$101M
$75M
$14M
$12M
$8.2M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

23% of TOMPKINS CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7.8M
’20
−$22M
’21
−$25M
’22
−$61M
’23
−$2.5M
’24
−$3.4M
’25
7.5
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131515131213
Joined·+2+3+1+0+1
No longer listed·03310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $513k → $232k.

12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TOMPKINS CONSERVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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

TOMPKINS CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 32% · 2021 54% · 2022 71% · 2023 44% — 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

36% of TOMPKINS CONSERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

TOMPKINS CONSERVATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.

VT
ND
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DE
DC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TOMPKINS CONSERVATION's revenue fell 93% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−391% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−42% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like TOMPKINS CONSERVATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

52% of spending goes to programs.

Program 52%Management 48%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

28%

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

  • Conservacion Patagonica LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION?
TOMPKINS CONSERVATION (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,746,671 to it, the largest being ZOMA FOUNDATION INC ($5,000,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TOMPKINS CONSERVATION have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $15,746,671 in grants to TOMPKINS CONSERVATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TOMPKINS CONSERVATION?
ZOMA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TOMPKINS CONSERVATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 42 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