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TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS

TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,092,503 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($320,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$547k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$611k
17/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What True Nature Society Quail Springs does

Mission

Quail Springs is a leading environmental educational nonprofit that empowers students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills, and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program Service Accomplishments: Quail Springs hosted several key programs, including farm tours, greywater educational workshops, and a groundwater advocacy event. We facilitated a listening session focused on economic development in Cuyama. Tending of our regenerative farm continued, including educating apprentices. Additionally, we advanced our advocacy efforts in natural building and groundwater conservation.

    $335,648 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $335,648.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($424k) Expenses 100 ($268k) Net assets 100 ($489k)2018 Revenue 90 ($381k) Expenses 102 ($273k) Net assets 122 ($597k)2019 Revenue 71 ($302k) Expenses 120 ($320k) Net assets 118 ($578k)2020 Revenue 76 ($321k) Expenses 112 ($300k) Net assets 127 ($623k)2021 Revenue 82 ($347k) Expenses 119 ($320k) Net assets 138 ($674k)2022 Revenue 66 ($281k) Expenses 116 ($310k) Net assets 132 ($645k)2023 Revenue 54 ($230k) Expenses 132 ($354k) Net assets 125 ($612k)2024 Revenue 129 ($547k) Expenses 171 ($457k) Net assets 125 ($611k)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (171)Net assets (125)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 2020 to 2021, from $623k to $674k (+8%).

$589k
$597k
$578k
$623k
$674k
$645k
$612k
$611k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS’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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$157k
’17
$108k
’18
−$18k
’19
$21k
’20
$27k
’21
−$30k
’22
−$124k
’23
$90k
’24
3.6
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.

Board chair

Susan Cousineau

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed1310666888
Joined·+1+1+0+4+2+2+0
No longer listed·4504020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $135k → $135k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS’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

TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

55% 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 TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS.

29%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 47% · 2019 22% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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

32% of TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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

82% of TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
OH
CA
FL

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 4%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
43%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS?
TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,092,503 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($320,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,092,503 in grants to TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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