California · Nonprofit
YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL
YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,100 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $281k
What Yuba Watershed Protection and Fire Safe Council does
Mission
Yuba Watershed Protection and Fire Safe Council facilitates collaboration throughout the yuba county foothills to proactively build watershed and community resilience to wildfire by educating and empowering residents, implementing commmunity level mitigation projects, and supporting the integrity of our natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MULTIPLE SMALL GRANTS INCLUDING: 1. BLM Community Wildfire Assistance Program: Increasing community engagement in wildfire risk reduction though outreach and education,2. California Fire Foundation: Support community engagement in wildfire risk reduction through outreach and education,3. FEATHER RIVER AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT PROVIDING 1,200 FIRE SAFE INFORMATIONAL CALENDARS TO THE COMMUNITY,4. PG&E FSC FUEL REDUCTION 2024 GRANTS RESIDENTIAL CHIPPING PROGRAM, HELPING RESIDENTS REDUCE WOODY FUELS AROUND THEIR HOMES,5. Sierra Nevada Conservancy RFFCP: Increase regional capacity to prioritize, develop and implement projects that improve forest health and fire resiliency,6. Yuba County Wildfire Prevention: Operating budget and capacity building.
$319,443 spent$104,796 earned by the program45% of program spendingCapacity Building - Executive Director: Funding to support Executive Director position, Yuba Foothills Firewise: Firewise USA Site Activation Program for Yuba Foothills Communities, Roadside RPF: Project management for Yuba Foothills Wildland-Urban Interface fuels reduction project, Forest Business Alliance: Fiscal sponsor for the Yuba Forest Business Alliance to build capacity and peer-learning for forest based businesses, CWPP Update: Community Wildfire Protection Plan update, Community Impact Grant: Home Resilience Program - Defensible Space: Funding supports defensible space cost share and chipping to reduce Yuba Foothills residents' fire risk.
$235,965 spent$264,074 earned by the program34% of program spendingStevens Fund and Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG): implementation of the Brownsville, Oregon Ridge, and Brownsville-Oregon House Shaded Fuelbreaks is funded by USFS STEVENS FUND GRANTS. THESE FUELBREAKS CREATE A NETWORK OF REDUCED HAZARDOUS FUELS THAT SERVE AS ANCHORS FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION ACTIVITIES AND PROTECT THE COMMUNITIES OF THE YUBA FOOTHILLS FROM WILDFIRE. CWDG grant provides funding for the development of Community Wildfire Protection plans and implementation of projects outlined in the plans by assisting communities with wildfire risk and prioritizing those in high-hazard areas, low-income communities, or those impacted by severe disaster.
$147,202 spent$162,323 earned by the program21% of program spendingCal fire 11 fire prevention grant for implementation of the yuba roadside fuel treatment project in the dobbins/oregon house area. This project reduces fuels along roadways to reduce the chance of wildfire ignition, create safer evacuation routes, and provide better access for first responders in case of wildfire.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $702,610.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $118k to $463k (+293%).
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: 2022 98% · 2023 85% · 2024 93% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Sean Griffis
Chairman/Pres
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $30k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL’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 PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 48% · 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
63% of YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142 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 PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.3M
- Department of the Interior$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL
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
92% 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 PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL: 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 PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL?
- YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,100 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $200,100 in grants to YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC 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 YUBA WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FIRE SAFE COUNCIL 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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