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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOUNDATION

EIN 94-3164862 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2024
$235,747
Expenses 2024
$245,469

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83Z
Classification
1000
Street
1222 PRESERVATION PARK WAY

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists 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

Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by providing access to information, strategies and enforcement of environmental, toxics, and community right-to-know laws.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by providing access to information, strategies and enforcement of environmental, tonics, and community right-to-know laws.

  • In order to achieve our mission, ELF brings legal cases and advocates on behalf of the public interest. In 2024, among other things, we advocated for flow requirements in the Scott River in Northern California. We also litigated cases protecting groundwater resources in the San Joaquin Valley, litigated and advocated for groundwater quality in the Central Coast and Central Valley, and advocated for regulation of dairy CAFOs consistent with state law.

    Expenses $245,469 · Grants $196,737 · Revenue $235,746

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.

  • Nathaniel Kane

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $52,250
    From this org
    $52,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alex Leumer

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • James Wheaton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Maya Kuttan

    Board Member

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $235,747
    Expenses
    $245,469
    Contributions
    $232,594
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $249,133
    Expenses
    $243,820
    Contributions
    $228,305
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $233,328
    Expenses
    $281,515
    Contributions
    $188,732
    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
    $444,756
    Expenses
    $315,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,919
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $51,807
    Expenses
    $328,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,474
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $566,017
    Expenses
    $284,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $365,347
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $58,234
    Expenses
    $288,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,516
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $122,779
    Expenses
    $311,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $213,784
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $407,526
    Expenses
    $364,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,633
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $470,767
    Expenses
    $320,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,371
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,541,440
    Expenses
    $1,357,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,392,888
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,242
    Expenses
    $488,733
    Assets (EOY)
    $208,743
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $645,333
    Expenses
    $378,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,324

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.