North Grassland Wildlife Foundation

The data does not support treating North Grassland Wildlife Foundation as a viable target for an unsolicited grant application. This is an IRS-classified private foundation (foundation code 04, subsection 03) based in Patterson, California, whose stated mission is narrow and self-directed: "To further the development & retention of wildlife habitat on 1,365 acres of land" that the foundation itself manages, developed by flooding with deep well pumps and surface water. Every available fiscal-year filing (2012 through 2025) reports $0 in grants_paid — there is no third-party grantee list, no top-50 grantees, and no by-state giving breakdown in the underlying database, because none exist to report. The foundation has no public website (listed as "None"), no grants portal, no published application form, no contact email, and no listed opportunities URL. Its eight officers and directors (President Ron Depauw, Vice President Herb Dompe, Secretary Collin Schut, Treasurer Mark Trinta, and directors Ron Hermreck, Peter Hoy, Albert Streuli, and Evan Schut) all serve without compensation, consistent with a small, closely held family or landowner-run operating entity rather than a staffed grantmaking institution. In practical terms, this organization functions as a private wildlife-habitat operating foundation, not a funder. Grant seekers — especially conservation, wetlands, and wildlife-habitat nonprofits working in California's Central Valley — should not budget staff time toward an LOI or proposal here. If there is a strategic reason to engage (e.g., shared geography in the Patterson/San Joaquin Valley grasslands corridor, or a potential land-management or restoration partnership rather than a grant), the only realistic path is a direct, personal introduction to one of the named officers, since no institutional intake process exists. Organizations seeking Central Valley wetlands or grassland funding are better served pursuing the peer funders and public programs listed below.

There are no third-party grant dollars to analyze — total_giving in the matched grantee data is null and total_grants is 0 for every period on record. What the Form 990-PF filings do show is the foundation's own annual spending, which IRS filings for private operating foundations often report as "total giving" even though it reflects program (habitat) expenditure rather than checks written to grantees. That figure has stayed remarkably flat for over a decade: $49,397 (FY2012), $58,402 (FY2013), $50,926 (FY2014), $50,148 (FY2015), $47,289 (FY2019), $45,262 (FY2020), $74,880 (FY2021), $51,488 (FY2022), $50,651 (FY2023), and $0 reported for FY2025 (the most recent filing, alongside $51,770 in total revenue and $50,221 in net investment income). Averaged across the nine years with non-zero figures, spending runs almost exactly $53,160/year — a narrow band with a single outlier in FY2021 ($74,880). Total assets have grown slowly and steadily from $1,096,246 (2012) to $1,283,862 (2023) before dipping slightly to $1,272,497 (2025), meaning the foundation spends roughly what it earns in investment income each year (net investment income of $50,221–$130,330 annually) and holds its principal essentially flat — a classic small perpetual operating endowment, not a foundation building toward larger future giving capacity. There is no program-area or geographic breakdown to report because 100% of the foundation's activity is directed at a single fixed asset: its own 1,365-acre wildlife habitat parcel in Patterson, CA.

North Grassland Wildlife Foundation sits in a cluster of similarly small, asset-light Environment-category private foundations, several of which — like this one — may not be conventional external grantmakers either. Comparable data was not independently verified for each peer's grantmaking activity, so treat the "Application" column as a database inference, not a confirmed policy.

All six organizations cluster tightly in the $1.2M–$1.3M asset band with no public website on file, which is itself a pattern worth flagging: small single-purpose Environment foundations at this asset size frequently operate their own programs or land rather than fund outside nonprofits. Before approaching any of these, a grant seeker should independently confirm (via GuideStar/ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer or a direct phone call) whether each one actually makes third-party grants — the database alone cannot distinguish an inactive grantmaker from a genuinely closed operating entity.

No recent activity specific to North Grassland Wildlife Foundation was found in web search results for 2025–2026 — no press releases, leadership changes, program launches, or media coverage exist for this organization under any of the four research queries. The most recent financial filing on record is FY2025, showing $51,770 in total revenue, $50,221 in net investment income, and $0 in reported giving, alongside total assets of $1,272,497 (last verified in the underlying database on 2026-08-29). This is consistent with a decade-plus pattern of quiet, unchanging operation: the foundation has filed IRS Form 990-PF returns going back to at least 2012 with an essentially identical program description each year (habitat development and retention on its 1,365-acre parcel via deep-well and surface-water flooding), and there is no indication anywhere online of new hires, new directors beyond the eight already on file, new program areas, or any public-facing communications channel. Grant seekers should not expect this to change without a triggering event (e.g., a new website, an EIN name change, or new officers taking a more outward-facing posture) and should treat this funder as dormant from an external-applicant perspective rather than "recently inactive."

There is no confirmed application process to advise on, and fabricating one would mislead applicants — the foundation has no website, no listed application_form_url, no grants_page_url, no opportunities_url, no contact_email, and application_instructions in the underlying data is explicitly marked "__none__." The only contact points on file are a phone number, (209) 892-6226, and a mailing address, PO Box 1107, Patterson, CA 95363-1107. Given the foundation's decade-long pattern of $0 grants paid to outside organizations, the most honest and useful guidance is: do not build a proposal strategy around this funder. If a grant seeker has a specific, geographically relevant reason to make contact — for example, a wetlands restoration or habitat-management project physically adjacent to the foundation's Patterson parcel, or a shared connection to one of its officers (Ron Depauw, Herb Dompe, Collin Schut, Mark Trinta, Ron Hermreck, Peter Hoy, Albert Streuli, or Evan Schut) — the only realistic approach is a brief, direct phone call to the listed number to ask whether the foundation ever considers outside partnerships or in-kind collaboration on habitat work, rather than a formal written LOI or proposal, since no intake mechanism to receive one exists. Applicants should not submit unsolicited materials by mail without first confirming by phone that someone will review them; an all-volunteer, uncompensated board of eight running a single 1,365-acre program is unlikely to have proposal-review bandwidth. For actual Central Valley or California grassland/wetlands funding, redirect effort toward active grantmakers such as the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's grassland and Central Valley programs or California Department of Fish and Wildlife grant opportunities (wildlife.ca.gov/Grants), both of which publish real RFPs and application portals.