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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,457,841
Total expenses
$1,135,010
Contributions and grants received
$989,935
Grants paid
$65,164
Program service revenue
$381,187
Investment income
$21,107
Other revenue
$65,612
Total assets, end of year
$1,580,525
Total liabilities, end of year
$706,376
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$874,149
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$873,258
Management and general expenses
$262,056
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$785,961

Program services were 76.9% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $152,602

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $837,333

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Govt Contracts

    total $103,157 · related or exempt $103,157

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Corporate or Other Contra

    total $246,000 · related or exempt $246,000

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Education

    total $22,030 · related or exempt $22,030

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Services

    total $10,000 · related or exempt $10,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $21,107 · related or exempt $21,107

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Admin fee

    total $65,226 · related or exempt $65,226

  • 11b · Other revenue: Book Income

    total $386 · related or exempt $386

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $65,612

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $65,164 · program services $65,164

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $295,890 · program services $265,200 · management and general $30,690

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $348,599 · program services $288,134 · management and general $60,465

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $60,006 · management and general $60,006

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $55,290 · program services $14,397 · management and general $40,892

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $1,000 · program services $1,000

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $500 · management and general $500

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $6,040 · program services $1,796 · management and general $4,244

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $147,250 · program services $147,250

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $29,423 · program services $13,161 · management and general $16,262

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $10,157 · program services $6,496 · management and general $3,661

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $32,069 · program services $8,659 · management and general $23,410

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $5,867 · management and general $5,867

  • 17 · Travel

    total $26,192 · program services $25,552 · management and general $640

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $18,525 · program services $18,525

  • 20 · Interest

    total $2,805 · management and general $2,805

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $16,816 · program services $5,084 · management and general $11,732

  • 24a · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

    total $9,594 · program services $9,284 · management and general $310

  • 24b · Other expenses: G & A Expenses Adjustment

    total -$319

  • 24c · Other expenses: Payroll Expenses(deleted)

    total $10

  • 24d · Other expenses: Reconciliation Discrepanc

    total $4

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $4,128 · program services $3,556 · management and general $572

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,154,842 · end of year $1,328,396

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $31,011 · end of year $36,823

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $1,151 · end of year $1,151

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $39,878 · end of year $27,366

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $293,402

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $115,823

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $175,596 · end of year $177,579

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $9,210

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $12,171 · end of year $22,661

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $154,491 · end of year $160,180

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $119,946 · end of year $118,946

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $189,587 · end of year $189,587

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $57,820 · end of year $215,002

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $868,463 · end of year $876,041

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    end of year -$1,892

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    end of year $322,831

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Educate Senior Decision makers in buisness, government and civil society about how to implement more regenerative practices profitablity in partnership with leading thinkers and organizations

Activities or mission (Part I)

Educate and partner with key decision makers in buisness government and civil society to implement profitable regenertiave practices

  • Education is at the heart of the NCS Mission. We partner with educational institutions, creating curriculum, teaching and lecturing globally. Hunter Lovins helped develope MBA programs at Pinchot University and Presido Graduate School. She teaches principles of sustainable management at the Bard MBA and Fordham University. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Humanistic Management Association. Scott King and our Mission Zero project educated university students on climate and clean energy solutions, including holding fairs and competitions for student solutions. Our students now work in companies large and small, governments, and entreprenuerial endeavors around the world.

    Expenses $777,072

  • Natural Capitalism's Clean Coalition enabled micro-grid installation in communities in California and elsewhere. EcoAthletes brought sustainability solutions to the sports industry. Anthropocene Magazine continued its mission to bring solutions oriented to journalism to its readers. Bill Becker and Hunter Lovins published numerous articles in journals around the world. Hunter Lovins helped create the Future Economy Forum, which held ten days of dialogues with heads of state, ministers, CEO's, head of NGOs, indigenous people, youth negotiators and several thousand others at the UN's COP27 in Egypt. Our newsletter educates an extensive mailing list about solutions that they can can implement in their own lives.

    Expenses $8,889

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • L Hunter Lovins

    President

    Total calculated
    $72,000
    From this org
    $72,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $72,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $72,000

  • Craig Lewis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $205,200
    From this org
    $205,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $205,200
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $205,200

  • Robert Noiles Jr

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $18,690
    From this org
    $18,690
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $18,690
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $18,690

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

Answered yes

None.

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
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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
2023
Filed
2 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202511229349301216

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