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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW CENTER INC

EIN 04-3099089 BOSTON, MA

Largest nonprofits in Massachusetts

Revenue 2024
$559,866
Expenses 2024
$850,405

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C013
Classification
1000
Street
294 WASHINGTON ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

8 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH AND LITIGATION IN THE GENERAL AREA OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

  • THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER (NELC) IS A NON-PROFIT LITIGATION CENTER FOUNDED IN 1990 TO ENFORCE ANTI-POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAWS AND PROMOTE LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS TO THE NATIONS PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS. NELC ATTORNEYS HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF BRINGING CORPORATE POLLUTERS TO JUSTICE. NELC WORKS CLOSELY WITH STATE AND LOCAL CITIZEN GROUPS, PROVIDING ESSENTIAL LEGAL EXPERTISE TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT. NELC HELPS THE PUBLIC TO SHAPE AND UPHOLD OUR CORE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS, SERVING AS A MAJOR FORCE IN PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION. NELC ATTORNEYS CAREFULLY MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REPORT VIOLATIONS TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION, NELC DOES, WINNING COURT ORDERS THAT STOP ILLEGAL EMISSIONS AND THAT IMPOSE MONETARY PENALTIES FOR PAST VIOLATIONS.

    Expenses $619,086 · Revenue $341,563

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Chuck Caldart

    CLERK, DIRECTOR, LITIGATION DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $139,810
    From this org
    $126,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,210
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joshua Kratka

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $120,051
    From this org
    $112,197
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,854
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joseph Mann

    PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna Aurilio

    TREASURER, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Hartmann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas Phelps

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $559,866
    Expenses
    $850,405
    Contributions
    $104,048
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,447,125
    Expenses
    $759,779
    Contributions
    $103,169
    Grants paid
    $50,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $196,319
    Expenses
    $646,875
    Contributions
    $153,244
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $343,321
    Expenses
    $530,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,190,484

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,542
    Expenses
    $778,474
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,472,218

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,826
    Expenses
    $559,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,161,871

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $584,899
    Expenses
    $1,049,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,880,095

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $738,523
    Expenses
    $1,254,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,585,572

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $411,860
    Expenses
    $566,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,340,048

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.