Elkhorn Slough Foundation

A land trust that has spent four decades quietly buying back and healing the watershed around one California estuary so that a single place can outlast everyone now tending it.

17named by peers

Financial profile

Elkhorn Slough Foundation · EIN 94-2823247 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$5,245,873$4,605,603$60,152$4,631,818$41,505,157Jun 2023
FY2022$4,607,156$3,424,824$79,588$4,140,904$40,492,883Jun 2022
FY2021$6,252,654$5,546,633$30,266$4,805,844$41,670,138Jun 2021
FY2020$4,135,624$3,501,956$75,566$3,916,847$38,763,092Jun 2020
FY2019$3,835,240$3,144,527$59,714$3,499,531$38,758,429Jun 2019
FY2018$10,749,417$4,113,832$56,215$4,503,723$38,297,699Jun 2018

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Peer societies

Five societies Elkhorn Slough Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs ESF

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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Who backs Elkhorn Slough Foundation's peers, but not Elkhorn Slough Foundation

Companies named publicly by at least one of Elkhorn Slough Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in Elkhorn Slough Foundation's reviewed public records.

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The outside view

A land trust that has spent four decades quietly buying back and healing the watershed around one California estuary so that a single place can outlast everyone now tending it.

  • Authority
  • Preserve
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Legacy

Faithful to what was handed down.

The Legacy is devoted to continuity, carrying a tradition and an identity across generations. Its gift is stability and deep institutional memory, its challenge is making room for change.

Also reads toward The Frontier and The Village.

Strengths

→Unmatched continuity and a trusted name.
→Decisions honor a long arc, not a news cycle.
→Members feel part of something lasting.

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