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← CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,811,482
Total expenses
$2,490,813
Contributions and grants received
$2,608,250
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$32,264
Investment income
$87,023
Other revenue
$83,945
Total assets, end of year
$3,572,441
Total liabilities, end of year
$352,838
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,219,603
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,763,052
Management and general expenses
$637,481
Fundraising expenses
$90,280
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,763,052

Program services were 70.8% 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

    $2,608,250

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Conference Attendance Fee

    total $1,322 · related or exempt $1,322

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Miscellaneous Income

    total $13,266 · related or exempt $13,266

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Refund of Prior Year Exp

    total $17,676 · related or exempt $17,676

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $94,578 · excluded $94,578

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $83,945

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $83,945

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $83,945 · excluded $83,945

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $540,868

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $548,423

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$7,555

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$7,555 · related or exempt -$7,555

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $342,026 · program services $188,114 · management and general $119,709 · fundraising $34,203

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $404,006 · program services $173,005 · management and general $217,588 · fundraising $13,413

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $95,598 · program services $48,388 · management and general $40,451 · fundraising $6,759

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $65,316 · program services $32,573 · management and general $29,015 · fundraising $3,728

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $43,617 · program services $20,261 · management and general $20,898 · fundraising $2,458

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $15,928 · management and general $15,928

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $33,700 · management and general $33,700

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $11,154 · management and general $11,154

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $38,062 · program services $25,376 · management and general $12,686

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $33,758 · program services $22,505 · management and general $11,253

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $199,885 · program services $133,257 · management and general $66,628

  • 17 · Travel

    total $8,231 · program services $2,744 · management and general $2,744 · fundraising $2,743

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $7,023 · program services $4,682 · management and general $2,341

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,843 · program services $4,562 · management and general $2,281

  • 24a · Other expenses: Study Travel Direct Expense

    total $597,654 · program services $597,654

  • 24b · Other expenses: Conferences Direct Expense

    total $438,350 · program services $438,350

  • 24c · Other expenses: Board expense

    total $36,377 · program services $4,671 · management and general $8,322 · fundraising $23,384

  • 24d · Other expenses: Payroll & 401(k) Processing

    total $24,323 · program services $16,215 · management and general $8,108

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $88,962 · program services $50,695 · management and general $34,675 · fundraising $3,592

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $6,994 · end of year $124,692

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,025,033 · end of year $1,109,341

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $2,500

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $513,405 · end of year $441,380

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $32,730 · end of year $803

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

    $751,412

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

    $731,168

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $16,398 · end of year $20,244

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,686,758 · end of year $1,854,144

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $19,337 · end of year $19,337

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $391,264 · end of year $263,742

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $123,477 · end of year $89,096

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,768,664 · end of year $3,217,103

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $17,250 · end of year $2,500

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy is to convene broad roundtable dialogues in the areas of energy, water, transportation, telecommunications and technology, housing, and the circular economy. Our participants include leaders from across California representing labor, business, environmental, and state and local government. Our dialogues take place both in state and through study travel projects designed to maximize the exchange of information, learn about new technological developments abroad, and explore common ground among our diverse participants. CFEE continually monitors the many complex issues facing California in our key issue areas.

Activities or mission (Part I)

See Schedule "O"

  • CFEE held four conferences focused on a variety of topics within our issue areas.Key accomplishments in our conferences during 2023 included:1. Assessing how many new energy projects are needed to meet state climate goals, considering how to move more quickly in building new energy infrastructure, and evaluating opportunities to manage rising costs.2. Examining existing and potential future funding sources for roadways and public transit, identifying land use policies that align housing and transportation needs, the buildout of Californias growing electric vehicle market and charging stations, and developing transportation solutions that work for urban and rural communities alike.3. Understanding federal and state funding opportunities to deploy broadband networks, highlighting solutions to build communications infrastructure more efficiently while still incorporating community feedback, considering Californias role in cybersecurity, and learning about the development of artificial intelligence, including its risks and benefits.4. Evaluating Californias progress in becoming more resilient to weather extremes, studying the energy-water nexus, leveraging data to make more informed water management decisions, and identifying options to addressing rising prices in the water sector.

    Expenses $1,056,407 · Revenue $30,498

  • CFEE conducted four study travel projects in 2023. The projects facilitate handson learning in our key issue areas.CFEE conducted a study travel project to Denmark to learn how the small nation is leading the world with its commitment to carbon capture and storage and offshore wind energy technologies. The program also highlighted what is being done in Denmark to develop a carbon-neutral agricultural sector while ensuring food security and water supply sustainability.The second study travel project was held in British Columbia and Alberta, and it focused on the circular economy and recycling. The program featured best practices on recycling construction materials, bottle and can reuse and recycling, developing composting infrastructure, carbon capture usage and sequestration, plastics reduction and recycling, and the transition to zero waste communities and businesses. The third study travel project was in California where the program highlighted best practices and new technologies in Southern California. Featured projects included water reuse and storage facilities, workforce training for energy and construction workers, the transition to hydrogen fuels at power plants and in homes, refining of Californias special blend of gasoline and jet fuel, geothermal and lithium extraction in the Salton Sea, nuclear fusion research, tribal partnerships with state and local government, and public transit and rail development.Our fourth and final tour brought CFEE to France to learn how nuclear energy is a key climate strategy providing carbon-free baseload energy for the French and European electricity grid. Additionally, the program explored how France built, finances, and operates its high speed rail system, one of the most successful networks in the world. The study tour also highlighted climate adaption for farming practices and the transition to lower carbon fuels in the shipping and aviation industries.

    Expenses $706,645 · Revenue $20,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jay Hansen

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $417,256
    From this org
    $353,189
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $64,067
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $342,026
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $4,490
    Deferred
    $51,609
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,458
    Filer's total
    $410,583
  • Wyatt Lundy

    Dir of Rsrch& Ops

    Total calculated
    $178,753
    From this org
    $138,883
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,870
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $128,477
    Bonus
    $9,500
    Other
    $906
    Deferred
    $19,079
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,791
    Filer's total
    $178,753
  • Martin Adams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jamie Asbury

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Heidi Barsuglia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Armond Cohen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Stephanie Doyle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jason Caudle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Mike Hartley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Curt Augustine

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • J Thomas Baca

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Robert Balgenorth

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allison Febbo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Liz Forsburg Pardi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Joseph Cruz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Dustin Corcoran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Quentin Foster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Nick Chaset

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Bob Dean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Caroline Choi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Adel Hagekhalil

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Timothy T Cremins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Daniel Curtin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Scott Green

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Andrew Meredith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Scott Farris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Chris Hannan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Barbara Hale

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Rodney Cobos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Heidi Hawkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Martin Kropelnicki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Grant Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Laura Lewis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carolyn Coleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Kassandra F Gough

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Walter Hughes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Paul Rowley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Kerry Hattevik

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Robert Hunter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Danielle Osborn Mills

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Alex Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Alona Sias

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Ted Bardacke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Garen Kazanjian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Graham Knaus

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Julie Rentner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Mary Lynch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Estee Cheng

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Dawn Weisz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Michael Quigley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Maria Sperber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Tyler Studds

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Charles Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Robert Daviduk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Rob Stoker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Lori Anne Dolqueist

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Kevin Tilden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Vince Sugrue

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Varner Seaman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Catherine Reheis-Boyd

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ermelinda Ruiz Moretti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Mary-Ann Warmerdam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Doug Kobold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Daniel Skopec

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jan Smutny-Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Willie Whittlesey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Tony Brunello

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Nick Josefowitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jay Ziegler

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Von Berg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Laura Tolkoff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Mark Macarro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Rebecca Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • David Gomez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Colin Lavin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Michelle Wright Conn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Elliot Mainzer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Lori Mitchell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Sara Oneill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Michelle Orrock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Chris Patterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Mark Pestrella

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Eric Potashner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Michelle Reimers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Heidi Sanborn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Antonio Sanchez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Brian Hanlon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Beth Vaughn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Terry Webber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jim Wunderman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Steve Konig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Laiza Negrete

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Alex Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Jennifer Pierre

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Anthony Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Marc Blakeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Michael Caprio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Tim Carmichael

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Juliet Christian-Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Janus Norman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Katelyn Roedner-Sutton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Victoria Rome

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Teresa Stark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4
  • Celeste Cremen

    Office Manager

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 1a: Relevant information in regards to selections on 1a.

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
15 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202423219349300937

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