OCCIDENTAL ARTS AND ECOLOGY CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C30Z

Classification

1200

Street

15290 COLEMAN VALLEY RD

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

• OAECS 2024 PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE MOSTLY EXPRESSED THROUGH OUR MANY INTER-RELATED PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS. A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF THIS PROGRAM WORK INCLUDES:1. THE RESILIENT COMMUNITY DESIGN / PERMACULTURE PROGRAM,2. THE WATER INSTITUTE AND BEAVER RESTORATION PROJECT,3. THE MOTHER GARDEN BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM,4. THE WILDLANDS PROGRAM,5. THE MOVEMENT BUILDING RETREAT PROGRAM,6. THE PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM,7. OAECS PARTNERSHIP WITH DOZENS OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ALLIANCES AROUND EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS, AND8. OAECS FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS PROGRAMEACH OF OUR PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS USE THE SAME METHODS AND STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE OUR PUBLIC BENEFIT MISSION, INCLUDING:1. WE MODEL RESILIENCY - OAEC IS A RESILIENCY DEMONSTRATION SITE, MODELING DOZENS OF PRACTICAL PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY-SCALE SOLUTIONS TO COMMON CHALLENGES IN THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF SOIL, WATER, FOOD PRODUCTION, THE RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AND MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO SELF-GOVERN AND MANAGE ECONOMY. OAECS PROGRAMS BENEFIT FROM OUR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING AND CARING FOR OUR OWN 80-ACRE SITE, AS WELL AS SUPPORTING HUNDREDS OF OTHER LAND-BASED PROJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS.2. WE TRAIN CHANGEMAKERS - THE TRANSITION TO A JUST AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY WILL ONLY BE ACHIEVED IF MORE INDIVIDUALS BECOME ECOLOGICALLY LITERATE CHANGEMAKERS. OAEC CONTINUES TO DEVELOP WORKSHOPS AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS THAT TRAIN, SUPPORT AND INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT LEADERS TO APPLY AN ECOLOGICAL LENS TO THEIR EXISTING SOCIAL CHANGE WORK.3. WE HELP BUILD THE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITIES TO TRANSFORM TOWARD RESILIENCE - OAEC STRIVES TO ACHIEVE A "SOCIAL CHANGE MULTIPLIER EFFECT" BY TRAINING AND BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF WHOLE COMMUNITIES TO BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE AGENTS OF RAPID CHANGE. WE WORK TO FOSTER ECOLOGICAL LITERACY AND TO EMPOWER DIVERSE COMMUNITIES - SCHOOLS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, PUBLIC AGENCIES, FOUNDATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS, FARMS AND RANCHES, AND POLICY COALITIONS - TO DESIGN THEIR OWN PLACE-BASED STRATEGIES TO CREATE THE JUST TRANSITION TOWARDS A MORE REGENERATIVE CULTURE AND ECONOMY.4. WE WORK TO CHANGE THE RULES OF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMY - WE WORK TO LEGALIZE AND REQUIRE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY, AND TO MAKE ILLEGAL AND DIS-INCENTIVIZE ACTIVITIES THAT SUBVERT IT. SOMETIMES ON OUR OWN, BUT MOST OFTEN THROUGH BROADER ADVOCACY ALLIANCES, WE SEEK TO CHANGE POLICY IN THE ARENAS OF GOVERNANCE IN WHICH WE ARE MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED - A CITY OR COUNTY COUNCIL, SCHOOL BOARD, WATER AGENCY, OR STATE LEGISLATURE OR AGENCY - ON ISSUES THAT ARE RIPE FOR CHANGE AND MOVE US TOWARD A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.

  Expenses $5,300,283 · Revenue $1,179,873

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

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

  $6,590,055

  Expenses

  $6,461,435

  Contributions

  $5,235,506

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,955,396

  Expenses

  $4,970,344

  Contributions

  $4,554,716

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,091,707

  Expenses

  $4,223,369

  Contributions

  $4,538,560

  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

  $2,970,544

  Expenses

  $2,702,283

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,371,747

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,493,111

  Expenses

  $1,832,192

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,067,941

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,815,069

  Expenses

  $2,396,229

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,475,579

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,523,060

  Expenses

  $1,944,634

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,026,596

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,452,706

  Expenses

  $1,893,932

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,461,589

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,411,040

  Expenses

  $2,279,395

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,848,791

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,213,762

  Expenses

  $2,037,973

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,753,927

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,710,552

  Expenses

  $1,659,517

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,255,814

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,399,946

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,208,200

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,311,471

  Assets (EOY)

  $683,972

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $537,172

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2024 · ALLIANCE OF LAND-BASED MUTUAL AID

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $389,500

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $385,000

  2022 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND/OR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $250,000

  2023 · PROJECT SUPPORT

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $240,000

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $220,000

  2023 · SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $219,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• NDN COLLECTIVE INC

  $200,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION GRANTS

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $175,000

  2023 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.

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

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