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← CLIMATE CENTRAL INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CLIMATE CENTRAL INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$22,272,608
Total expenses
$11,535,677
Contributions and grants received
$21,731,974
Grants paid
$0
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$9,045,873
Management and general expenses
$1,115,633
Fundraising expenses
$1,374,171
Program service expenses (Part III)
$9,045,873

Program services were 78.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • DR STEPHEN PACALA

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DECKER ANSTROM

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • APARNA BOLE MD

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 05/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CARL FERENBACH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCELINO FORD LIVENE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RANDALL HACK

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 10/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR SARAH KAPNICK

    TRUSTEE (AS OF 01/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT LITTERMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • VIVIAN SCHILLER

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 05/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WENDY SCHMIDT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR BENJAMIN STRAUSS

    CEO & CHIEF SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $391,991
    From this org
    $309,795
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $82,196
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $309,795
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $37,176
    Nontaxable benefits
    $45,020
    Filer's total
    $391,991

  • MONIVETT ACEVEDO

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $214,358
    From this org
    $158,958
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $55,400
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $158,958
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,075
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,325
    Filer's total
    $214,358

  • DANIEL DODSON

    CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $307,689
    From this org
    $236,554
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $71,135
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $236,554
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $28,386
    Nontaxable benefits
    $42,749
    Filer's total
    $307,689

  • SCOTT ANDREW KULP

    PRINCIPAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $329,731
    From this org
    $256,391
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $73,340
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,391
    Bonus
    $22,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,260
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,080
    Filer's total
    $329,731

  • ANDREW PERSHING

    CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $286,284
    From this org
    $225,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,284
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $27,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,284
    Filer's total
    $286,284

  • BERNADETTE WOODS PLACKY

    VP FOR ENGAGEMENT

    Total calculated
    $281,644
    From this org
    $213,001
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $68,643
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $213,001
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,560
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,083
    Filer's total
    $281,644

  • EMILY ELLEN SILBERSTEIN

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $263,582
    From this org
    $213,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,832
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $213,750
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $25,650
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,182
    Filer's total
    $263,582

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 — 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

Answered yes

  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
THE ORGANIZATION PAYS NON-FIXED PAYMENTS IN THE FORM OF BONUSES. THESE BONUSES ARE MERIT BASED.

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
2025
Filed
24 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202631769349300823

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