SAVE MOUNT DIABLO

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N32I

Classification

1000

Street

201 N CIVIC DRIVE

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 · 2024

• LAND ACQUISITION & LAND USE: SAVE MOUNT DIABLO CONTINUES LONG-TERM NEGOTIATIONS TO PROTECT IMPORTANT PROPERTIES.- CLOSED ESCROW AND ACQUIRED THE 98-ACRE GINOCHIO SCHWENDEL PROPERTY FOR $1,370,000 PLUS CLOSING COSTS IN MARCH 2025. IT IS ADJACENT TO SMD'S MARSH CREEK 5 PROPERTY. IT INCLUDES AN UNDERCROSSING OF MARSH CREEK ROAD FOR WILDLIFE AND A SEGMENT OF MARSH CREEK, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY'S SECOND LONGEST AND MOST UNDISTURBED CREEK. IT IS A STRATEGIC PIECE OF THE MARSH CREEK WATERSHED CONTAINING RARE VOLCANIC HABITAT WITH VERY HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE.- LAND USE: SAVE MOUNT DIABLO REGULARLY MONITORS THE AGENDAS OF 70 DIFFERENT PLANNING COMMITTEES AND PUBLIC AGENCIES. THIS WORK CAN TAKE TIME AS WE RESEARCH, WRITE LETTERS, TESTIFY, AND COLLABORATE ON SOLUTIONS. WE RESPONDED TO MORE THAN A DOZEN LAND USE PROJECTS IN THE 2024 - 2025 FISCAL YEAR.- FURTHERED OUR DIABLO RANGE EXPANSION WORK DEVELOPING NEW PARTNERS AND ADVANCING ADVOCACY EFFORTS TO PROTECT IMPORTANT LANDS LIKE TESLA AND DEL PUERTO CANYON.- PREPARED FOR THE FIRST EVER DIABLO RANGE CONVENING TO BE HELD IN JUNE 2025. WE ANTICIPATE OVER 150 INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING OVER 60 GROUPS DISCUSSING CONSERVATION THROUGHOUT THE DIABLO RANGE. - WE SUPPORTED OR LED THREE BALLOT MEASURE CAMPAIGNS: STATEWIDE PROP 4 CLIMATE BOND, A SAN BENITO COUNTY GROWTH CONTROL MEASURE A, AND NO ON MEASURE II IN DUBLIN TO DEFEND A TEN-YEAR-OLD URBAN LIMIT LINE WE HELPED CREATE THERE.

  Expenses $1,020,565 · Grants $20,468

• STEWARDSHIP: SAVE MOUNT DIABLO CURRENTLY OWNS AND/OR MANAGES 21 PROPERTIES TOTALING 2190-ACRES. SAVE MOUNT DIABLO ALSO HOLDS PERPETUAL CONSERVATION EASEMENTS ON 3 PROPERTIES, TOTALING 176-ACRES.- SUCCESSFULLY STEWARDED THE THOUSANDS OF ACRES UNDER OUR CARE (PLANTING NATIVE SPECIES, REMOVING INVASIVE SPECIES, REGULAR PROPERTY MONITORING, ETC.).- MORE THAN 685 VOLUNTEERS COMPLETED OVER 5,996 HOURS OF SERVICE IN THE 2024 - 2025 FISCAL YEAR. THEY HAVE SUPPORTED ALL OUR ACTIVITIES ACROSS DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. RECURRENT STEWARDSHIP VOLUNTEERS INCLUDE 28 PROPERTY MONITORS AND 34 VOLUNTEER STEWARDS.- VOLUNTEERS: OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE THE HEROES AND HEROINES OF LAND PRESERVATION. THEY HELP MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE, WHETHER IT BE BY HELPING RESTORE ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, BECOMING A HIKE LEADER, ASSISTING WITH EVENT REGISTRATION, STAFFING AID STATIONS, TAKING PHOTOS, OR SETTING UP EQUIPMENT. THEIR HARD WORK AND GENEROSITY ARE WHAT HELP MAKE THIS ORGANIZATION'S EFFORTS SO SUCCESSFUL.- STEWARDS ALSO CONTINUED MONTHLY PROPERTY OUTINGS, AND ORGANIZED SMALL WORKDAYS FOR RESTORATION PLANTINGS, WEEDING, MULCHING, WATERING NATIVE PLANTINGS AND CLEAN UP OF OUR PROPERTIES.- STAFF CONTINUED MONITORING IMPACTS TO VEGETATION IN THE JACKASS CANYON AREA, WITH CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS AND CAL FIRE, WORKING TOGETHER TO THIN, CHIP AND MANAGE HAZARDOUS FUEL LOAD IN THE AREA.- WITH OUR PARTNERS AT THE LINDSAY WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE, WE CONTINUED TO RELEASE REHABILITATED AMERICAN KESTRELS INTO THE MOUNT DIABLO FOOTHILLS, STRENGTHENING WILDLIFE CORRIDORS.- ADVANCED OUR 10,000 TREES AND NATIVE PLANTS PROJECT, PLANTING AND CARING FOR MORE THAN 3,000 PLANTS AT OUR RESTORATION SITES, MANY OF THOSE PLANTS BEING CALIFORNIA MILKWEED AND OTHER POLLINATOR PLANTS FOR MONARCH FORAGING, BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE.- WE MONITOR AND REMEDIATE STORM DAMAGE ON ALL OUR PROPERTIES. WE INSTALLED A SOLAR WELL AND A WILDLIFE TROUGH AT MC7 TO MAINTAIN AND STRENGTHEN WILDLIFE HABITAT AND WATER QUALITY IN MARSH CREEK. - STAFF WORKED WITH STUDENTS AND VOLUNTEERS TO CREATE A POLLINATOR GARDEN AT MC7, AND FENCED IT WITH CEDAR SPLIT-RAIL FENCING, TO PROTECT THE AREA FROM CATTLE THAT GRAZE FOR FIRE ABATEMENT. THIS IS ALL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A GRANT FROM CDFW TO STRENGTHEN WILDLIFE HABITAT FOR LISTED SPECIES AND IMPROVE WATER QUALITY IN MARSH CREEK.- STAFF LED THE 4TH ANNUAL PINE CANYON CLEAN-UP WITH THE MOUNT DIABLO STATE PARK, THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT, THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB, AND THE BAY AREA CLIMBERS COALITION, WHERE WE REMOVED INVASIVE SPECIES, GRAFFITI, AND TRASH FROM THE PINE CANYON AREA, AS WELL AS HAZARDOUS FUEL LOAD FROM THE ASPARA DRIVE AREA WITH A CHIPPER.- WE HOSTED MAJOR CLEAN-UP WORKDAYS, INCLUDING A COASTAL CLEAN-UP WORKDAY IN KIRKER CREEK, WITH THE HELP OF A SMALL GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS TO REMOVE 10 GARBAGE BAGS OF TRASH. - ON OUR COASTAL CLEANUP DAY, WE REMOVED 3,000 LBS OF DEBRIS.- IN 2025, SAVE MOUNT DIABLO FINISHED CREATING AND OPENING MORE PUBLIC TRAILS AT OUR CURRY CANYON RANCH PRESERVE WHICH MEANS OUR ORGANIZATION HAS NOW CREATED AND OPENED OVER 7 MILES OF NEW PUBLIC TRAILS, AT OUR CURRY CANYON RANCH AND MANGINI RANCH EDUCATIONAL PRESERVE, IN JUST THE LAST FEW YEARS.- STEWARDSHIP STAFF LED 4 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION DAYS AT CURRY CANYON RANCH FOR MDUSD STUDENTS IN THE BACR CARES PROGRAM, EFFECTIVELY CREATING AN INSPIRING WORKDAY IN THE HILLS.

  Expenses $869,002 · Grants $699 · Revenue $27,674

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $638,403 · Grants $55,562 · Revenue $32,004

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,026,768

  Expenses

  $3,953,606

  Contributions

  $5,374,021

  Grants paid

  $76,729

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,037,101

  Expenses

  $3,506,613

  Contributions

  $5,660,882

  Grants paid

  $144,047

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,364,222

  Expenses

  $3,451,522

  Contributions

  $3,341,066

  Grants paid

  $114,451

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

  $3,476,517

  Expenses

  $4,026,398

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,107,721

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,751,697

  Expenses

  $3,395,073

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,820,014

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,429,624

  Expenses

  $2,734,298

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,522,201

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,066,782

  Expenses

  $3,278,529

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,990,704

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,608,534

  Expenses

  $2,474,895

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,440,593

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,753,630

  Expenses

  $3,232,445

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,479,184

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,264,313

  Expenses

  $2,199,862

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,950,955

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,338,484

  Expenses

  $10,509,639

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,076,971

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,297,962

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,171,774

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $3,926,877

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,822,747

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

• East Bay Regional Park Dist

  $50,000

  2022 · Finley project

• Mount Diablo Interpretative A

  $30,000

  2022 · Education Center

• PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $20,336

  2024 · SCIENCE & RESEARCH GRANT - CONDORS OF THE DIABLO RANGE

• DIGITAL STORY COMPANY LLC

  $16,600

  2024 · SUPPORT FOR TV SERIES: OPEN ROAD WITH DOUG MCCONNELL & FRIENDS

• NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC

  $15,000

  2023 · OPEN ROADS SUPPORT

• NBCUniversal Media LLC

  $12,000

  2022 · Open Roads Support

• PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $10,396

  2023 · SCIENCE & RESEARCH GRANT - CONDORS OF THE DIABLO RANGE

• CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT SAN BENITO

  $10,000

  2023 · SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT SAN BENITO - YES ON MEASURE A

• FRESNO CHAFFEE ZOO CORPORATION

  $5,240

  2024 · SUPPORT FOR BLUNT-NOSED LEOPARD LIZARD WEATHER STATION

• CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION

  $0

  2023 · FOR USE WITHIN OPERATIONS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $1,000,000

  2023 · SUPPORT FOR THE DIABLO RANGE CAMPAIGN

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $282,000

  2022 · DIABLO RANGE EXPANSION SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $218,900

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $151,148

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $120,400

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $79,031

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $76,130

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $63,819

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $60,000

  2024 · SPORTS/LEISURE

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · SPORTS/LEISURE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $9,250 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $4,466 to charity

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $1,300 raised

  2023 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $581 to charity

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $1,000 raised

  2022 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $428 to charity

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $8,126 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $3,255 to charity

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $10,600 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $5,903 to charity

• CAR DONATION SERVICES INC

  $14,850 raised

  2019 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $7,375 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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