Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$5,345,643

Total expenses

$5,488,167

Contributions and grants received

$5,340,643

Grants paid

$2,390,014

Program service revenue

$5,000

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$4,706,240

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,759,543

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,946,697

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,770,953

Management and general expenses

$499,460

Fundraising expenses

$217,754

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,770,953

Program services were 86.9% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• ONE EARTH HAS THREE CORRESPONDING PROGRAMS--SCIENCE, PHILANTHROPY, AND COMMUNICATIONS--THAT WORK IN UNISON TO ACCELERATE COLLECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION. OUR SCIENCE PROGRAM IS BUILDING A CLEAR ROADMAP OF THE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THE 1.5 DEGREE CELSIUS GOAL. THROUGH A HIGHLY COLLABORATIVE AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH, OUR PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM WORKS TO QUICKLY SCALE RESOURCES FOR ON-THE-GROUND CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD. AND OUR MEDIA PROGRAM IS BUILDING A NEW SOLUTION-ORIENTED NARRATIVE ON CLIMATE THAT EDUCATES PEOPLE ABOUT CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AND TELLS THE INSPIRATIONAL STORIES OF THE EVERYDAY HEROES ALL AROUND US WHO ARE ACTIVELY CREATING THE VIBRANT, JUST FUTURE THAT IS POSSIBLE.SCIENCE PROGRAM: PROVING WHAT'S POSSIBLEONE EARTH DEVELOPS AND SUPPORTS CUTTING-EDGE, ACTIONABLE SCIENCE THAT CAN INFORM AND INFLUENCE DECISION MAKERS TO ACHIEVE PARIS-ALIGNED ROADMAPS AND POLICIES IN THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND NGO SECTORS. WE WORK CLOSELY WITH LEADING EXPERTS TO DEVELOP SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS THAT CAN DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE 1.5 DEGREE CELSIUS GOAL. WE ALSO PRODUCE EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS AND ACCESSIBLE COMMUNICATIONS ASSETS ABOUT THE SOLUTIONS PATHWAYS TO INFORM STAKEHOLDERS AND DECISION-MAKERS WHO ARE ADVOCATING FOR KEY POLICY SHIFTS. AT THE CORE OF OUR WORK IS THE GROUNDBREAKING ONE EARTH CLIMATE MODEL WHICH PROVIDES A ROADMAP FOR LIMITING GLOBAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE RISE TO 1.5 DEGREE CELSIUS USING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES. THIS RESEARCH, SUPPORTED BY ONE EARTH, WAS THE CULMINATION OF A TWO-YEAR COLLABORATION WITH 17 LEADING SCIENTISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS), TWO INSTITUTES AT THE GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DLR), AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE'S CLIMATE & ENERGY COLLEGE. THE 500-PAGE BOOK, ACHIEVING THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT GOALS (TESKE ET AL. 2019), WAS RELEASED BY THE PRESTIGIOUS SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHER SPRINGER NATURE AND QUICKLY BECAME THE MOST DOWNLOADED CLIMATE TEXT IN THE PUBLISHER'S HISTORY, CITED IN DOZENS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. THE MODEL PROVIDES THE LEAST-COST PATHWAYS FOR DECARBONIZING OUR ENERGY SYSTEM AND SHOWS THE POWERFUL ROLE FORESTS AND AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS CAN PLAY. THE SECOND VERSION OF THE CLIMATE MODEL WAS RECENTLY RELEASED, WHICH PROVIDES DECARBONIZATION STRATEGIES FOR ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIES AND THE FINANCIAL SECTOR.ONE EARTH ALSO SPEARHEADED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLOBAL SAFETY NET (GSN), THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL-SCALE ANALYSIS OF TERRESTRIAL AREAS ESSENTIAL FOR BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE, TOTALING 50.4% OF THE EARTH'S LAND. THE REPORT WAS PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE ADVANCES AND IS ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH AN INTERACTIVE WEB APPLICATION (GLOBALSAFETYNET.APP) ONE EARTH BUILT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GOOGLE EARTH THAT ALLOWS USERS TO CLICK ON A COUNTRY, STATE, OR ECOREGION TO SEE CONFIGURATIONS OF BIOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT LAND FOR EACH REGION. THE GSN IS QUICKLY GAINING MOMENTUM AND INFLUENCING CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE POLICY AT THE INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS. IN 2021, THE GSN WAS HONORED BY FAST COMPANY AS A "WORLD CHANGING IDEA" IN THE DATA & AI CATEGORY, AND EARLIER THIS YEAR WAS AWARDED SILVER FOR "BEST STRATEGY IN SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE" CATEGORY IN THE INAUGURAL ANTHEM AWARDS. THESE GROUNDBREAKING SCIENTIFIC EFFORTS, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY, PROVIDE A GLOBAL BLUEPRINT AND REGIONAL ROADMAPS TO HELP DRIVE SWIFT CLIMATE ACTION FROM THE TOP DOWN AND THE BOTTOM UP, INFLUENCING CLIMATE POLICY AND EMPOWERING THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT WITH DATA THEY NEED TO MAKE SCIENCE-BACKED DEMANDS. THESE SCIENTIFIC EFFORTS CAN ALSO INFORM HOW CAPITAL CAN BE DISTRIBUTED, PROVIDING INVESTORS WITH THE CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE TO INVEST IN SOLUTIONS THAT WORK, AND THEREBY TURNING SCIENCE INTO MEANINGFUL CLIMATE ACTION.PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM: SCALING SOLUTIONS FROM THE GROUND UPCURRENTLY, LESS THAN 2% OF ALL CHARITABLE GIVING GOES TO EFFORTS TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS. AND JUST A FRACTION OF THOSE DOLLARS REACHES ON-THE-GROUND PROJECTS AND COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONTLINES. ONE EARTH'S MISSION IS TO RAPIDLY SCALE CLIMATE PHILANTHROPY BY DEMOCRATIZING ACCESS TO INNOVATIVE AND IMPACTFUL PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD, ENABLING DONORS AT ALL LEVELS TO DIRECTLY SUPPORT CRITICALLY UNDERFUNDED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS AND THE GRASSROOTS LEADERS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE DRIVING CHANGE FROM THE GROUND UP.TO THIS END, WE CREATED THE ONE EARTH PROJECT MARKETPLACE, A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND GLOBAL DATABASE OF VETTED, PLACE-BASED PROJECTS, ORGANIZED BY OUR UNIQUE BIOREGIONAL FRAMEWORK AND CATEGORIZED BY THE THREE PILLARS OF COLLECTIVE ACTION TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS. THE PROJECTS ARE SOURCED FROM OUR GLOBAL NETWORK OF TRUSTED PARTNERS AND VETTED BY THE ONE EARTH TEAM, WHICH HAS MANY DECADES OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKING, COMMUNICATIONS, AND FUNDRAISING. OUR INTERACTIVE NAVIGATOR PLATFORM ALLOWS DONORS TO QUICKLY VIEW, SEARCH, AND DONATE TO A DIVERSE SELECTION OF IMPACTFUL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF ONLINE DONATIONS GOING TO THE SELECTED PROJECTS. TO DATE, WE HAVE SOURCED AND VETTED OVER 100 PROJECTS ACROSS 59 BIOREGIONS--FROM THE CANADIAN TUNDRA TO THE AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST--AND WE HAVE FACILITATED $1.7 MILLION IN GRANTS TO MARKETPLACE PROJECTS, PROVIDING DIRECT FUNDING TO CRITICAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS.IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NOTED WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST ZAINAB SALBI AND PHILANTHROPIST JODY ALLEN, ONE EARTH RECENTLY LAUNCHED DAUGHTERS FOR EARTH, A NEW CAMPAIGN AND PHILANTHROPIC FUND THAT AIMS TO MOBILIZE $100 MILLION FOR WOMEN-LED EFFORTS TO PROTECT AND RESTORE THE EARTH. DAUGHTERS RECENTLY ISSUED ITS FIRST ROUND OF GRANTS OF OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO 24 WOMEN-LED AND OPERATED PROJECTS ALL OF WHICH WERE SOURCED FROM THE ONE EARTH PROJECT MARKETPLACE. COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM: TAKING BACK THE CLIMATE NARRATIVE CLIMATE NIHILISM HAS, UNFORTUNATELY, GONE VIRAL, ESPECIALLY AMONG THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS. CURRENT STUDIES SHOW THAT, WHILE MOST PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING, MANY BELIEVE THAT WORST-CASE SCENARIOS ARE LIKELY, AND SOME BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE. A FEW YEARS AGO, "CLIMATE DENIERS" WERE DERAILING PROGRESS, BUT TODAY THE GREATEST THREAT TO SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SENSE OF HOPELESSNESS. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THE 1.5 DEGREE CELSIUS GOAL IS ACHIEVABLE IF WE ACT TOGETHER WITH FOCUS AND DETERMINATION. TO SPARK THIS LEVEL OF COLLECTIVE ACTION, ONE EARTH PRODUCES COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS OUR PLATFORMS THAT TELL THE STORY OF THE FUTURE THAT WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE--A WORLD IN WHICH NATURE AND ALL PEOPLE THRIVE TOGETHER. WE UTILIZE THE POWER OF MEDIA TO EDUCATE, INSPIRE, AND GROW A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE ADVOCATING FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS IN EVERY BIOREGION OF THE WORLD, ULTIMATELY MOBILIZING EVERYONE TO BECOME A CLIMATE CHAMPION BY SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS ON THE PROJECT MARKETPLACE.THROUGH OUR ROBUST COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM, WE HAVE PRODUCED OVER 140 UNIQUE VIDEOS IN OVER 700 FORMATS THAT FEATURE THE STORIES OF THE EVERYDAY HEROES IN COMMUNITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, THE CHANGEMAKERS IMPLEMENTING SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS, AND THE INCREDIBLE BIODIVERSITY OF OUR SHARED PLANET EARTH. AS PART OF OUR LOCAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS FELLOWSHIP, WE'VE SUPPORTED 18 YOUNG JOURNALISTS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN PUBLISHING A TOTAL OF 90 ORIGINALLY REPORTED STORIES HIGHLIGHTING INNOVATIVE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE REGIONS. OUR REACH IS GROWING AT AN ASTOUNDING RATE WITH A TOTAL OF 55.4 MILLION WEB IMPRESSIONS ANNUALLY. OUR CONTENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED IN OVER A DOZEN LANGUAGES, AND OUR GLOBAL DEAL FOR NATURE PETITION, CALLING ON WORLD LEADERS TO PROTECT OF 50% OF EARTH'S LANDS AND OCEANS, CONTINUES TO GARNER ATTENTION WITH OVER 3.2 MILLION SIGNATURES TO DATE. THIS SIGNIFIES A GROWING APPETITE FOR UPLIFTING, SOLUTIONS-FOCUSED, AND SCIENTIFICALLY DRIVEN CONTENT. ONE EARTH IS UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO BUILD A BROAD PUBLIC MOVEMENT OF ENGAGED AND OPTIMISTIC CHANGEMAKERS INSPIRED INTO COLLECTIVE ACTION. TOGETHER, WE CAN SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

  Expenses $4,770,953 · Grants $2,390,014 · Revenue $5,000

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

• RE-EARTH INITIATIVE INC

  $950,000

  SPONSORSHIP OF INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM: THE CASE OF THE LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO CAMPAIGN BETWEEN THE YEARS 1995 AND 2000; BUILDING UP THE YOUTH CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT

• RESOLVE INC

  $186,640

  PROTECTING THE HEARTLAND RANCH PRESERVE THROUGH WOMEN-LED CONSERVATION, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR GLOBAL SAFETY NET REPORT; GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR LAND CONSERVATION

• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND

  $100,000

  STRENGTHENING WOMEN-LED, AGROECOLOGY-BASED LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS THROUGH PRESERVING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SPECIES; REGENERATING SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS IN CENTRAL ASIAN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES; PROMOTING FARMER-TO-FARMER TRAINING

• EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE

  $82,500

  PROTECTING IMPERILED WOLVES IN THE NORTHERN ROCKIES REGION THROUGH COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATION; PROTECTING THE FORESTS AND PEATLANDS OF KALIMANTAN; RESTORING THE KAKAMEGA TROPICAL RAINFOREST BY CATALYZING WOMENS LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT

• ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

  $62,500

  DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL SAFETY NET REPORT

• WOMENS EARTH AND CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

  $60,000

  REGENERATING ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA; RESTORING THE ITOMBWE RAINFOREST THROUGH COMMUNITY ACTION IN THE CONGO

• FIBERSHED

  $57,500

  PRESERVING THE NAVAJO AGRO-PASTORAL LIFEWAY: AN INDIGENOUS-LED NAVAJO-CHURRO WOOL BUY COOPERATIVE; CATALYZING AGROECOLOGICAL REGENERATION IN CALIFORNIA

• AMAZON FRONTLINES

  $45,000

  PROTECTING AND STRENGTHENING CRITICAL INDIGENOUS-LED MAPPING AND REAL-TIME MONITORING OF THE UPPER AMAZON

• TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC

  $45,000

  RESTORING KILUM-IJIM FOREST BIODIVERSITY BY CENTERING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT; SUPPORTING WOMEN-LED MICRO-ENTERPRISES TO REGENERATE BIODIVERSITY

• DIGITAL DEMOCRACY

  $36,000

  PROTECTING INDIGENOUS LANDS THROUGH WOMEN-LED MAPPING INITIATIVES IN EASTERN AFRICA

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

7 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202313129349304391

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