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← BCARBON INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by BCARBON INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$673,504
Total expenses
$1,320,251
Contributions and grants received
$245,051
Grants paid
$2,947
Program service revenue
$384,101
Investment income
$44,352
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$816,515
Total liabilities, end of year
$14,271
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$802,244
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,117,955
Management and general expenses
$202,296
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,117,955

Program services were 84.7% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $245,051

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Project revenue

    total $250,000 · related or exempt $250,000

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Carbon credit certifications

    total $134,101 · related or exempt $134,101

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $44,352 · excluded $44,352

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $2,947 · program services $2,947

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $374,188 · program services $315,523 · management and general $58,665

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $20,209 · program services $16,531 · management and general $3,678

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $29,163 · program services $24,675 · management and general $4,488

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $106,026 · program services $70,098 · management and general $35,928

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,105 · management and general $10,105

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $30,462 · program services $28,375 · management and general $2,087

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,895 · program services $1,697 · management and general $7,198

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $8,647 · management and general $8,647

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $36,000 · program services $29,448 · management and general $6,552

  • 17 · Travel

    total $18,275 · program services $2,848 · management and general $15,427

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $12,029 · program services $7,982 · management and general $4,047

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,986 · management and general $12,986

  • 24a · Other expenses: Consulting

    total $295,229 · program services $262,741 · management and general $32,488

  • 24b · Other expenses: Testing services

    total $201,450 · program services $201,450

  • 24c · Other expenses: Payments to Landowners

    total $153,640 · program services $153,640

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $149,375 · end of year $283,479

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,286,769 · end of year $515,849

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,935 · end of year $17,187

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $9,088 · end of year $14,271

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $27,168 · end of year $138,694

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,401,823 · end of year $663,550

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BCarbon's mission is to provide high-integrity research and certification services for empirically tested carbon sequestration projects around the world and to sustain a community of practice for sharing knowledge about the low-carbon economy.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To enable sustainable climate conservation with a nature-based carbon registry.

  • BCarbon creates and maintains standards and programs to achieve sustainable climate change goals to protect and conserve the environment for the benefit of the general public using nature-based solutions. BCarbon reviews and certifies applications for both soil and timber carbon credits as well as methane well credits to determine whether they meet BCarbon's criteria for credit issuance. Credits are issued and registered on a blockchain accounting system to keep up with subsequent transactions. During 2024, BCarbon added a carbon credit protocol for plugging orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells that are leaking methane, for which no state or federal funding is available.

    Expenses $907,883 · Revenue $234,101

  • BCarbon is working with Prairie View A&M University to develop a program for small landowners in East Texas to help them create what is called the Small Landowner Carbon Collaborative that we intend to become a model for small landowner participation in the carbon market throughout the United States.

    Expenses $100,239 · Grants $2,947

  • BCarbon has created a coastal living shoreline protocol that will protect coastal wetlands from sea level rise and provide carbon credits at the same time.

    Expenses $81,223 · Revenue $150,000

  • BCarbon is working with the East Foundation to develop a crediting protocol for biodiversity that will attempt to establish additional value for properties that are participating in the carbon market and also exhibit great biological diversity, with an initial focus on South Texas ranchlands and the endangered ocelot which is a small spotted cat that lives in the deep brush of South Texas.

    Expenses $28,610

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • James B Blackburn Jr

    Chair, President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Joe Swinbank

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brooke Harris

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jose Beceiro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elliott Bouillion

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joni Caswell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pam Giblin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Claude Griffin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hasty Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jane Stricker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
3 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202543079349303409

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