Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$14,428,899

Total expenses

$8,845,209

Contributions and grants received

$13,892,447

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$207,850

Investment income

$112,142

Other revenue

$216,460

Total assets, end of year

$11,460,930

Total liabilities, end of year

$780,134

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$10,680,796

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,905,584

Management and general expenses

$806,364

Fundraising expenses

$1,133,261

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,905,584

Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• CLIMATE MATTERSCLIMATE MATTERS IS A CLIMATE REPORTING RESOURCE PROGRAM GROUNDED IN THE LATEST SCIENCE THAT HELPS METEOROLOGISTS AND JOURNALISTS REPORT ON CLIMATE IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS IN WAYS THAT ARE LOCAL, IMMEDIATE, AND PERSONAL.THE ORGANIZATION'S TEAM OF SCIENTISTS, DATA ANALYSTS AND VISUAL ARTISTS IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET DATA AND PRODUCE EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND TEXT AND VISUAL MATERIALS, INCLUDING GRAPHICS, INTERACTIVE CONTENT AND VIDEOS, TO HELP JOURNALISTS BUILD STORIES THAT WILL ENGAGE AND ENLIGHTEN THEIR AUDIENCE.THE ORGANIZATION'S REPORTING TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE, FREE OF CHARGE, TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN TELLING ENGAGING LOCAL, SCIENCE-BASED STORIES ABOUT HOW GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING THEIR COMMUNITY, WHY IT MATTERS, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT.

  Expenses $1,641,884

• ATTRIBUTION + CLIMATE FINGERPRINTSTHE ORGANIZATION PLAYED A LEAD ROLE IN TRANSFORMING THE PUBLIC NARRATIVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT SOME EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE, A CLAIM VALIDATED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN 2016. THIS PIONEERING RESEARCH IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW THE ORGANIZATION'S SCIENTISTS HELPED CHANGE THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CONVERSATION. THE ORGANIZATION CONTINUES TO ADVANCE SCIENCE THAT WILL ENABLE THE QUANTIFICATION OF CLIMATE FINGERPRINTS IN WORLDWIDE LOCAL WEATHER DAILY A TRUE GRAIL FOR CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS. TO ACHIEVE THIS IMPACT, THE ATTRIBUTION SCIENCE + CLIMATE FINGERPRINTS PROGRAM DEVELOPS TOOLS TO HELP REVEAL HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISRUPTING OUR WORLD. ITS FIRST OPERATIONAL TOOL, THE CLIMATE SHIFT INDEX, PROVIDES DAILY ESTIMATES OF HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING AIR TEMPERATURE.

  Expenses $1,502,932

• REALTIME CLIMATEREALTIME CLIMATE IS AN INITIATIVE TO DISPATCH TIMELY ALERTS AND RELATED CONTENT TO METEOROLOGISTS, OTHER JOURNALISTS, AND OTHER SUBSCRIBERS WHEN CURRENT LOCAL CONDITIONS PRESENT A NOTABLE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, ITS IMPACTS, OR ITS SOLUTIONS. AT REALTIME CLIMATE'S CORE IS A CONTINUALLY UPDATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT MONITORS A GROWING RANGE OF DATA STREAMS FROM LOCAL WEATHER FORECASTS TO COASTAL WATER LEVELS TO LOCAL RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION. WHEN KEY THRESHOLDS ARE MET, THE SYSTEM ASSEMBLES RELATED CONTENT, LARGELY LEVERAGING RESEARCH AND MATERIALS FROM THE CLIMATE MATTERS AND SEA LEVEL RISE PROGRAMS, AND SENDS ALERTS TO SUBSCRIBERS IN THE AREAS EXPERIENCING THRESHOLD CONDITIONS. SUBSCRIBERS INCLUDE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CLIMATE MATTERS PROGRAM AND MANY STAKEHOLDERS OF THE SEA LEVEL RISE PROGRAM, AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO OPTS IN USING AN ONLINE FORM ON CLIMATE CENTRAL'S WEBSITE.

  Expenses $1,396,659

• SEA LEVEL RISE THE ORGANIZATION'S PROGRAM ON SEA LEVEL RISE STRIVES TO PROVIDE SCIENCE-BASED, CLEAR AND GRANULAR INFORMATION ABOUT SEA LEVEL RISE AND COASTAL FLOOD HAZARDS BOTH LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. ANCHORED IN RIGOROUS PRIMARY RESEARCH, THE ORGANIZATION'S WORK DISTINGUISHES ITSELF BY ITS USER-FRIENDLY MAPS AND TOOLS, EXTENSIVE DATASETS, AND HIGH-QUALITY VISUAL PRESENTATIONS. THE PROGRAM DEDICATES ITS EFFORTS TO HELPING JOURNALISTS, CITIZENS, COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS AT EVERY LEVEL TO UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT CARBON PATHWAYS AND TO NAVIGATE THE SHIFTING WATERS OF OUR WARMING WORLD.

  Expenses $1,282,349

• FLOODVISIONFLOODVISION, AN INNOVATIVE TOOL DEVELOPED BY CLIMATE CENTRAL, USES ADVANCED DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES, AI-BASED ALGORITHMS, AND INTUITIVE SOFTWARE TO PRODUCE SCIENCE-BASED AUGMENTED-REALITY PHOTOS OF SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. USERS CAN CHOOSE OPTIONAL VIEWS TO CONTRAST MEANINGFUL SCENARIOS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, SUCH AS PROJECTED SEA LEVELS BASED ON DIFFERENT CARBON PATHWAYS OR LOCAL STORM SURGE FORECASTS FROM APPROACHING HURRICANES. FLOODVISION IS DESIGNED TO EMPOWER THE ORGANIZATION'S BROAD MEDIA NETWORKS, AS WELL AS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, AGENCIES, NGOS AND OTHER COASTAL STAKEHOLDERS, SUCH AS EMERGENCY MANAGERS WHO CAN USE THE IMAGERY TO STRENGTHEN EVACUATION WARNINGS AND OTHER SAFETY MEASURES. THIS HELPS THE PUBLIC AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS BETTER VISUALIZE AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

  Expenses $470,952

• PARTNERSHIP JOURNALISMTHE ORGANIZATION BRINGS A PARTNERSHIPS JOURNALISM INITIATIVE TO THE SERVICE OF CLIMATE MATTERS AND SEA LEVEL RISE TO ADD DEPTH TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND, WHEN APPLICABLE, ITS PROMISING SOLUTIONS.PARTNERING WITH LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES AND HELPS DEVELOP STORIES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF PRINT, DIGITAL, RADIO, AND TV OUTLETS.

  Expenses $319,904

• ENTERPRISE - WHICH FOCUSES ON MARKETING AND LICENSING ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS AND DATA TO DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS SUCH AS INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE COMPANIES, RATING AGENCIES AND NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.

  Expenses $290,904 · Revenue $207,850

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323199349317692

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