California · Nonprofit
YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE
YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,477 to it, the largest being BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION ($38,280). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Yuba Watershed Institute does
Mission
To promote the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of long-term biological diversity in the Yuba River watershed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program: Forest Health. Planned and implemented forest health and hazardous fuels reduction projects across the Yuba River watershed, working with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Nevada County, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, and private landowners. In 2025 the Institute completed the 'Inimim Forest Restoration Project Phase 3 timber harvest and biomass treatment on roughly 250 acres of BLM land co-managed with YWI (SNC grant 1507), continued mastication and hand thinning on the 195-acre Little Deer Creek Landscape Resilience Project (SNC grant 1637), carried out hazardous fuels reduction, CEQA compliance and monitoring for the South Yuba Rim project under contract with Nevada County (funded by FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and SNC), and began planning for a shaded fuel break at Round Mountain. Work is performed by licensed contractors under YWI project management, with a Registered Professional Forester and environmental consultants. Expenses shown are the Forest Health program per the audited Statement of Functional Expenses; revenue is the grant and contract revenue earned for this program (SNC administrative-cost reimbursements of 81,542 are excluded).
$1,400,779 spent$1,439,386 earned by the program100% of program spendingProgram: Education. Public education on forest ecology, fungi, fire, and watershed stewardship. No public events were held in 2025 (the annual Fungus Foray did not take place) and no publications were released; staff began drafting new educational publications in late 2025 for release in a later year. Expenses consist of staff time on that drafting work and a U.S. Forest Service special-use permit fee. Sales of previously published works (66) are reported as inventory sales on Part VIII line 10.
$1,121 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,401,900.
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. 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 $40k to $376k (+836%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 86% · 2024 36% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Christopher Friedel
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $37.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE’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
YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 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 YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197 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
YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE: 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 YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE?
- YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,477 to it, the largest being BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION ($38,280). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $39,477 in grants to YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE?
- BELLA VISTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YUBA WATERSHED INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing