Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by CHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $907,395
- Total expenses
- $769,934
- Contributions and grants received
- $725,399
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $180,455
- Investment income
- $1,541
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $416,739
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $416,739
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $587,354
- Management and general expenses
- $84,725
- Fundraising expenses
- $97,855
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $587,354
Program services were 76.3% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$725,399
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$10,452
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2a · Program service revenue: Professional Developme
total $180,455 · related or exempt $180,455
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3 · Investment income
total $930 · excluded $930
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $15,021
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $14,410
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $611
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $611 · excluded $611
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $115,500 · program services $87,203 · management and general $5,775 · fundraising $22,522
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $457,863 · program services $350,420 · management and general $57,161 · fundraising $50,282
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $955 · program services $903 · management and general $3 · fundraising $49
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $50,763 · program services $38,622 · management and general $5,637 · fundraising $6,504
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $6,977 · management and general $6,977
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11g · Fees: other
total $38,308 · program services $38,308
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $11,452 · program services $1,434 · management and general $1,240 · fundraising $8,778
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13 · Office expenses
total $5,031 · program services $3,267 · management and general $552 · fundraising $1,212
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14 · Information technology
total $14,257 · program services $11,015 · management and general $1,511 · fundraising $1,731
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17 · Travel
total $15,620 · program services $10,587 · management and general $456 · fundraising $4,577
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $1,853 · program services $1,853
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23 · Insurance
total $2,124 · management and general $2,124
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24a · Other expenses: Stipends to partcipants
total $25,997 · program services $25,997
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24b · Other expenses: Utilities
total $8,372 · program services $6,311 · management and general $1,778 · fundraising $283
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24c · Other expenses: Program materials and s
total $7,085 · program services $6,974 · management and general $111
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24d · Other expenses: Payroll processing
total $4,276 · program services $3,209 · management and general $539 · fundraising $528
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24e · All other expenses
total $3,501 · program services $1,251 · management and general $861 · fundraising $1,389
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $239,200 · end of year $411,285
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $84,688 · end of year $3,750
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$7,020
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$7,020
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,853 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $5,364 · end of year $1,704
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $52,036 · end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $277,104 · end of year $242,358
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,965 · end of year $174,381
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The organization's mission is to establish sustainability as an integral part of every child's K-12 learning experience. By integrating sustainability across subjects and grades, we can equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will help lead to a sustainable future for everyone. CELF programs use sustainability as an integrating context for teaching and learning, decision-making, civic engagement, community partnerships and campus practices. The lens of sustainability transforms curriculum, school operations, physical surroundings and school-community activities and fosters the cultivation and engaged citizens.
Activities or mission (Part I)
CELF provides professional learning programs for K-12 teachers and administrators, student experiential learning programs, and curriculum consulting services in order to make sustainability education an integral part of the K-12learning experience. Our programs for educators, students and community members complement our consulting services by providing varying routes to bringing sustainability into classroom and school culture.
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Summer Institutes:Multi-day immersive professional development programs for K-12 educators that explore the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability, and ways of bringing these concepts to life in classrooms through hands-on STEAM activities, case studies, and fieldwork. The Institutes build practical curriculum integration of stewardship perspectives, skills and action to the restoration, rebuilding, and reconnecting of human communities, environmental stewardship and civic life.Participants leave with resources for implementing interdisciplinary,place-based, and inquiry-driven sustainability projects, and receive implementation support from CELF throughout the academic year.
Expenses $39,876
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Civic ScienceInquiry to Action is a semester- or year-long program that engages educators and students in project-based STEAM learning outside of the classroom. Using our Inquiry-to-Action framework, this program trains teachers to engage students in hands-on learning to identify, analyze, and solve real-world environmental issues that impact their school communities. Exploring cross-curricular inquiry pathways such as air and water quality, biodiversity, waste, and infrastructure, students visit local green spaces to collect data, develop action plans, and share findings and solutions with field experts and decision-makers during our culminating annual Student Symposium events.
Expenses $249,151
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Professional development and TrainingThe concepts of sustainability are universal, but every district and school starts from a different place in implementing sustainability education. CELF customized professional development (PD) helps schools infuse curriculum and school culture with education for a sustainable future. PD services include: gap analyses ofcurriculum; on-site Education for Sustainability training and resources (specific to grade level and school or district needs and interests); and review of facilities "green" improvements to help infuse projects into curriculum. Through half-day workshops to multi-year engagements, we provide a framework for integrating sustainability concepts into existing curricula, review curriculum exemplars. help teachers connect students to place-based learning opportunities in the community, create whole-school action plans, and activate student civic engagement.Green Careers Speaker SeriesAs student interest in sustainability grows, CELF helps students see how their interests and community concerns can be channeled into potential career pathways by connecting them with professionals working in a wide array of sustainabilityfocused careers. CELF connects classrooms directly with industry professionals across sectors to explore opportunities for applying sustainability and systems thinking in their career planning and aspiration.
Expenses $298,327 · Revenue $180,455
As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Maureen Brady Atinsky
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Tara Stafford Ocansey
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $115,500
- From this org
- $115,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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William Davis
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Evan Matzen
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
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Dean A Slocum
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alex Krueger
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Samarth Bhaskar
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Maureen Burgess
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cassandra Clark
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David Stubbs
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Joanne Howard
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
- 2023
- Filed
- 11 October 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202412879349300711
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