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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$786,612
Total expenses
$805,249
Contributions and grants received
$775,476
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$11,100
Investment income
$36
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$319,634
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$319,634
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$619,704
Management and general expenses
$104,284
Fundraising expenses
$81,261
Program service expenses (Part III)
$619,704

Program services were 77.0% 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)

    $52,406

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $723,070

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Professional Developme

    total $11,100 · related or exempt $11,100

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $36 · excluded $36

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $128,009 · program services $96,500 · management and general $6,400 · fundraising $25,109

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $454,648 · program services $340,033 · management and general $69,808 · fundraising $44,807

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $55,878 · program services $40,984 · management and general $8,261 · fundraising $6,633

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $9,300 · management and general $9,300

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $78,903 · program services $78,903

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,066 · program services $3,753 · management and general $48 · fundraising $1,265

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,240 · program services $969 · management and general $225 · fundraising $46

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $12,318 · program services $10,398 · management and general $1,001 · fundraising $919

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,163 · program services $19,025 · management and general $138

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,025 · management and general $2,025

  • 24a · Other expenses: Stipends to partcipants

    total $16,366 · program services $16,366

  • 24b · Other expenses: Program materials and s

    total $6,544 · program services $6,456 · management and general $88

  • 24c · Other expenses: Utilities

    total $6,054 · program services $1,154 · management and general $4,715 · fundraising $185

  • 24d · Other expenses: Payroll processing

    total $5,176 · program services $4,055 · management and general $471 · fundraising $650

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $4,559 · program services $1,108 · management and general $1,804 · fundraising $1,647

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $312,821 · end of year $269,868

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $25,025 · end of year $37,728

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

    $7,020

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

    $7,020

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,810 · end of year $12,038

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,500 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $154,471 · end of year $40,971

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $183,685 · end of year $278,663

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The organization's mission is to establish sustainability as an integral part of every child's PreK-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 of 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-12 learning 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.

  • 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 $39,662

  • Civic ScienceCivic Science 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 $439,309

  • 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 of curriculum; on-site Education for Sustainability training and resources (specific to grade level and school or district needs and interests); and review of facilities green infrastructure improvements to help infuse projects into curriculum. Through half-day workshops to multi-year engagements, we provide a framework for integrating sustainability concepts into curricula, community, and culture, helping 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 sustainability focused 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 $140,733 · Revenue $11,100

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Daniel Metzger

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • William Davis

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Maureen Brady Atinsky

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • David Stubbs

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tara Stafford Ocansey

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $128,009
    From this org
    $128,009
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alex Krueger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassandra Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tim Clare

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexandra Goldstein

    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
2025
Filed
14 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611349349312491

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