California Forest Conservation Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
854293819
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9169322222
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Environment and Animals

Reported finances

Revenue
$63,520
Expenses
$32,524
Assets
$290,126

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAREN KAHN (President)
  • DANIEL BLESSING (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • KAREN KAHN (President)
  • DANIEL BLESSING (Vice President)
  • RICKY SATOMI (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

THE MISSION of the CALIFORNIA FOREST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (CFCF) is to help improve the overall health, sustainability and climate resiliency of California forests by providing educational programs and services concerning conservation, management, health and fire safety to the general public.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization supports other organizations that align with its mission to educate the public and small private forest landowners on fuel reduction, wildfire resilience, grant programs, other technical aspects of forest stewardship, etc. In addition, the organization partners with other organizations to highlight best management practices in both inland and coastal private non-industrial forest landscapes and to support research projects on demonstration forestland parcels.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.1%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.92; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 65.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.1% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.