LOS CERRITOS WETLANDS LAND TR FOR LONG BEACH & SEAL BEACH

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C27

Classification

1000

Street

259 BENNETT AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• ADVOCACY: The Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust has advocated for the protection of Los Cerritos Wetlands and the surrounding San Gabriel River estuary since 2001. In 2025, the Land Trust conducted environmental advocacy campaigns and provided oversight, collaboration, expertise, and defense of the wetlands in the following areas: We engaged experts to review a plan to use pumps to circulate water in Alamitos Bay, with the goal of demonstrating that more environmentally friendly pollution abatement alternatives are viable. We organized opposition to a proposal to construct environmentally damaging solar panels (intended to power oil operations) adjacent to sensitive publicly owned lands that are habitat for threatened species. We are monitoring proposed development projects within the Los Cerritos Wetlands Complex. We publicized and attended workshops on restoration designs to ensure the public is aware of the increased habitat protection this plan will provide.

  Expenses $141,031 · Grants $25,000

• COMMUNITY OUTREACH & PUBLIC EDUCATION: The Land Trust offers numerous education programs. Among these is the unique community service of free monthly guided nature walks through the wetlands led by trained ecologists and naturalists. These experts provide an immersive experience in our local wetlands while educating attendees about their history and importance. Due to the ongoing restoration of the Southern Area, we redirected our Raptor Ramble nature walk through Gum Grove Park. We host educational kayak tours of Steamshovel Slough, the most pristine part of the wetlands, led by a trained naturalist. The Land Trust also offers field trips for elementary classrooms, with an emphasis on students from Title I schools. We collaborate with the Long Beach parks district on their hands-on Be S.A.F.E. summer youth program by hosting youth from some of Long Beachs most urban neighborhoods at Zedler Marsh so they can learn about and explore the tidal salt marsh ecosystem.

  Expenses $116,258 · Grants $20,000

• RESTORATION, STEWARDSHIP & GENERAL MISSION: In 2025, the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust supported activities to advance the mission of preserving, protecting, and stewarding Los Cerritos Wetlands as a healthy, natural open space, with an emphasis on restoring habitat for the Beldings Savannah Sparrow. We sponsored extensive habitat restoration, including efforts to improve wetland water quality. We sponsored the removal of invasive plants, maintained a robust native plant demonstration garden, and publicized community-based restoration events.

  Expenses $112,165 · Grants $62,500

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $525,566

  Expenses

  $404,765

  Contributions

  $475,146

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $304,910

  Expenses

  $323,283

  Contributions

  $260,689

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $236,345

  Expenses

  $249,561

  Contributions

  $188,319

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $166,816

  Expenses

  $201,797

  Contributions

  $123,004

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $300,570

  Expenses

  $203,664

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,792,486

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $153,981

  Expenses

  $284,047

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,514,431

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $259,784

  Expenses

  $294,302

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,555,540

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $496,221

  Expenses

  $371,373

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,787,253

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $396,221

  Expenses

  $371,373

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,687,253

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $251,795

  Expenses

  $231,151

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,827,611

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $63,822

  Expenses

  $210,375

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,374,697

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $107,115

  Expenses

  $182,524

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,451,290

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $154,790

  Expenses

  $156,900

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,619,315

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $112,363

  Expenses

  $158,981

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,609,215

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $32,190

  2024 · ZEDLER MARSH RARE SPECIES HABITAT RESTORATION (CA)

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $10,465

  2023 · ZEDLER MARSH RARE SPECIES HABITAT RESTORATION (CA)

• LOS CERRITOS WETLANDS FUND

  $7,500

  2024 · Wetlands restoration

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