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CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

EIN 36-4541988 PORT TOWNSEND, WA

Revenue 2025
$187,613
Expenses 2025
$185,366

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
1322 WASHINGTON ST UNIT 705

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 · 2025

Mission

PROMOTING ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

  • FORESTS FOR CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY:Through its Forests for Climate and Biodiversity program, CSE advocates for protection and restoration of all native forest ecosystems on federal, state, and local public lands because of their role in capturing and storing carbon, filtering clean water, supporting outdoor recreation, sustaining biological diversity and supplying many other ecosystem goods and services. On private lands, we believe that state forest practices statutes and rules should create the enabling conditions for sustainably managed forests that are put to work earning landowners multiple revenue streams from wood products and non-timber goods and services but in a manner that protects public trust resources including soil productivity, water, wildlife, fish and a stable climate. Key activities and accomplishments in 2023 included:1.Developing a strategy to implement a forest carbon tax and reward program at the state level.2.Completing a peer-reviewed article on how to operationalize the forest carbon tax and reward concept.3.Filing litigation challenging harmful logging operations proposed on Washington State forestlands in King County.4.Hosting the Forest Carbon Coalition, a national network of conservation and scientific organizations advocating for climate smart forest practices.5.Hosting two online events addressing the imperative of enrolling forests more directly into the nations climate action framework.

    Expenses $75,073

  • CLIMATE JUSTICE:Together with environmental justice organizations, community groups, people of faith, indigenous peoples, labor allies, and civil society groups, CSEs Climate Justice Program is taking action around the urgent moral imperative of rapidly reducing our collective carbon footprint while ensuring our land use is sustainable, with high value carbon sinks, such as old growth forests, bolstered and expanded as rapidly as possible. Key activities and accomplishments in 2022 included:1.We continued our work with non-profits and decision makers to advance fossil fuel risk bond policies now in place in Oregon and Washington.2.We completed a report providing guidance to state and local governments interested in adopting fossil fuel risk bond programs in their jurisdiction.

    Expenses $50,049

  • GREEN INFASTRUCTURE:Investments in so called green infrastructure solutions such as wetland restoration or agricultural best management practices are increasingly recognized as cost effective ways to achieve environmental quality outcomes relative to investments in gray infrastructure such as wastewater treatment or water filtration plants. To advance green infrastructure solutions, CSE monitors land use decisions at the federal, state and local levels and advocates for inclusion of green infrastructure elements in site designs. Key activities and accomplishments in 2022 included:1.We continued our work with partners to devise a national and/or statewide no-net-loss compensatory mitigation program for forests and farmland.2.Monitoring and commenting on several land use decisions at the local level that will result in significant deforestation or loss of farmland.

    Expenses $41,707

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Talberth

    President

    Total calculated
    $98,298
    From this org
    $98,298
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Richard Mietz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $4,000
    From this org
    $4,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Leopold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kelly O'Hanley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anthony Rogers-Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $187,613
    Expenses
    $185,366
    Contributions
    $118,580
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $277,153
    Expenses
    $249,972
    Contributions
    $207,483
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $271,915
    Expenses
    $188,533
    Contributions
    $251,436
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $446,033
    Expenses
    $295,607
    Contributions
    $445,408
    Grants paid
    $90,000

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
    $285,268
    Expenses
    $168,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,112

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $376,996
    Expenses
    $541,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,151

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $615,520
    Expenses
    $401,016
    Assets (EOY)
    $314,126

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $289,772
    Expenses
    $261,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,622

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $250,968
    Expenses
    $329,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,342

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $369,948
    Expenses
    $317,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $150,007

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $158,775
    Expenses
    $217,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,418

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $168,903
    Expenses
    $148,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,956

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,381
    Expenses
    $90,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,712

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $44,900
    Expenses
    $55,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,827

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

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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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.