CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C013

Classification

1200

Street

62 SUMMER ST

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Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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• CLF VENTURES INC

  EIN 04-3355728

Mission and programs · 2023

• LITIGATION: EVEN THE STRONGEST ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ARE TOOTHLESS UNTIL THEY ARE ENFORCED, MAKING CLF'S ROLE AS A LEGAL WATCHDOG CRITICAL. POLLUTION FROM INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES DAMAGES OUR ALREADY COMPROMISED WATERWAYS. VIOLATORS OF OUR CLEAN AIR LAWS SPEW HAZARDOUS FUMES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO ASTHMA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASES. SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S BIGGEST OIL COMPANIES HAVE ENGAGED IN CLIMATE NEGLECT THAT PUTS OUR COMMUNITIES AND WATERWAYS AT RISK. CLF PROTECTS OUR COMMUNITIES BY HOLDING THESE POLLUTERS ACCOUNTABLE AND PUSHING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AT THE LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS. FOR MANY OF OUR CASES, WHEN CLF WINS OR SETTLES A SUIT, WE HOLD POLLUTERS ACCOUNTABLE IN A UNIQUE WAY. THEY FUND A SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT, OR SEP, THAT PROVIDES MONEY FOR VALUABLE PROTECTION AND RESTORATION PROJECTS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY DAMAGED BY THE VIOLATION.

  Expenses $4,575,916 · Revenue $2,350,000

• HEALTHY & RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: FOR 50 YEARS CLF HAS FOUGHT TO CREATE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE ACROSS NEW ENGLAND. IT IS HOW WE MADE OUR NAME: RETURNING A CLEAN BOSTON HARBOR TO THE PEOPLE AND CONNECTING MORE OF US TO RELIABLE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES THAT ARE RESILIENT IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE IMPACTS MEANS PUTTING PEOPLE AND THEIR WELL-BEING AT THE CENTER OF OUR WORK. THAT'S WHY WE HELP TO CREATE AFFORDABLE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS CLOSE TO OPEN SPACE, HEALTHY FOOD, AND PUBLIC TRANSIT. IT'S WHY WE PUSH FOR A STRONG, LOCAL FOOD ECONOMY REGIONWIDE. AND IT'S WHY WE WORK TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES CAN BOUNCE BACK FROM THE EXTREME WEATHER CLIMATE CHANGE IS ALREADY BRINGING TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. RESILIENCE TO EXTREME HEAT AND FLOODING, SAFETY FROM HAZARDS LIKE LEAD AND MOLD, AFFORDABLE AND STABLE HOUSING, ACCESS TO HEALTHY AND BUDGET-FRIENDLY FOOD - THESE FACTORS AND MORE AFFECT INDIVIDUAL HEALTH. COLLECTIVELY, THEY CAN ADD UP TO GREATER BURDENS COMMUNITY-WIDE, FURTHERING THE STRUCTURAL INJUSTICES AND INEQUITIES FACING COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND PEOPLE FROM LOWER-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS. CLF IS WORKING TO CHANGE THAT SCRIPT, BUILDING ON OUR CORE STRENGTHS, FROM LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY TO LEGAL WATCHDOG. IT ALSO LETS US USE NEWER TOOLS, INCLUDING INNOVATIVE IMPACT INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH THAT CENTERS RESIDENT INPUT AND DIRECTION. WORKING WITH COMMUNITY, BUSINESS, AND PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERS, WE ARE TRANSFORMING SYSTEMS, MARKETS, AND LAWS TO INNOVATE BETTER SOLUTIONS TO ADVANCE HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND RESILIENCE.

  Expenses $3,464,366 · Grants $36,320 · Revenue $3,189

• CLEAN ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE: CLF IS TACKLING THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PUSHING CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS AT THE STATE AND REGIONAL LEVELS. WE MUST COLLECTIVELY CUT CLIMATE-DAMAGING EMISSIONS TO NET-ZERO BY 2050 AND TRANSITION OUR ECONOMY TO ONE RUN ON CLEAN-RENEWABLE ENERGY - WHILE ENSURING THAT NO NEW ENGLANDER IS LEFT BEHIND. TODAY, CLF IS FIGHTING FOR LAWS THAT WILL END OUR REGION'S ADDICTION TO FOSSIL FUELS FOR GOOD; PUSHING FOR ECONOMY-WIDE CHANGE THROUGH POLICIES AND PROJECTS THAT BOOST LOW-COST LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY, SAVE FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES MONEY, AND CREATE GOOD-PAYING JOBS; STOPPING UNNECESSARY NEW GAS INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUSHING FOR CONCRETE UTILITY-SCALE PLANS TO PHASE GAS OUT BEFORE IT CAN SINK OUR REGION'S CLIMATE GOALS; AND MAKING SURE OUR COMMUNITIES CAN BOUNCE BACK FROM THE CLIMATE FALLOUT WE CAN NO LONGER AVOID - SO NEW ENGLANDERS CAN NOT ONLY SURVIVE BUT THRIVE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE.

  Expenses $3,104,241

• OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:OCEAN CONSERVATION: THE OCEAN PLAYS AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN NEW ENGLANDERS' LIVES, OUR ECONOMY, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. HOWEVER, POLLUTION, OVERFISHING, HABITAT LOSS, AND CLIMATE CHANGE THREATEN ITS HEALTH AND OUR FUTURE. CLF HAS SAFEGUARDED NEW ENGLAND'S OCEAN FOR DECADES - FROM BLOCKING OIL AND GAS DRILLING ON GEORGES BANK, TO CURBING OVERFISHING, TO PIONEERING SMART OCEAN PLANNING ACROSS THE REGION. WE FIGHT FOR A CLEAN, HEALTHY, AND PRODUCTIVE OCEAN TO ENSURE THAT ENDANGERED RIGHT WHALES CAN RECOVER FROM THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION, OUR WATERS CAN ONCE AGAIN ABOUND WITH COD AND OUR FISHERIES FLOURISH, AND OUR MOST FRAGILE HABITATS ARE PROTECTED TO ENSURE OUR WATERS REMAIN HEALTHY AND VIBRANT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, CLF HAS FOUGHT TO CREATE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE ACROSS NEW ENGLAND. BUT THE REALITY IS THAT POLLUTION, CLIMATE IMPACTS, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS FALL HARDER ON LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENT RESIDENTS AND LOW-INCOME AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR THAN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS. THAT'S WHY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IS A THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT WE DO - FROM STEMMING CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING TO PUSHING FOR MORE ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSIT, SHUTTING DOWN DIRTY POWER PLANTS AND INCINERATORS, TO PARTNERING WITH FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES ON ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEIR HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

  Expenses $10,333,528 · Grants $443,311 · Revenue $888,639

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $41,597,517

  Expenses

  $26,562,936

  Contributions

  $37,691,250

  Grants paid

  $479,631

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,528,889

  Expenses

  $21,259,975

  Contributions

  $15,844,038

  Grants paid

  $387,236

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

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $28,629,801

  Expenses

  $18,010,105

  Assets (EOY)

  $39,625,749

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $23,298,469

  Expenses

  $16,001,705

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,803,982

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,822,586

  Expenses

  $15,545,907

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,545,208

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,894,135

  Expenses

  $13,901,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $29,826,422

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $17,502,356

  Expenses

  $11,387,350

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,599,881

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,343,652

  Expenses

  $9,439,409

  Assets (EOY)

  $21,460,979

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,228,974

  Expenses

  $8,744,501

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,003,699

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,013,981

  Expenses

  $7,909,692

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,522,834

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

• NEW HAMPSHIRE RIVERS COUNCIL

  $225,000

  2023 · CLEAN WATER ACT

• NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC

  $115,949

  2022 · NORTHEAST CANYONS AND SEAMOUNTS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ANTIQUITIES ACT DEFENSE INITIATIVE AWARD

• NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC

  $103,812

  2023 · NORTHEAST CANYONS AND SEAMOUNTS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ANTIQUITIES ACT DEFENSE INITIATIVE AWARD

• RACIAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE

  $51,598

  2022 · BREATHE PROVIDENCE PROJECT

• MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  $49,976

  2022 · MUNICIPAL AND COMMUNITY BASED PARTNER AWARD AND PAN STIPEND

• EARTHJUSTICE

  $47,187

  2023 · NORTHEAST CANYONS AND SEAMOUNTS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ANTIQUITIES ACT DEFENSE INITIATIVE

• EARTHJUSTICE

  $36,893

  2022 · NORTHEAST CANYONS AND SEAMOUNTS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ANTIQUITIES ACT DEFENSE INITIATIVE AWARD

• ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT

  $36,750

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE & NEW ENGLAND UNITED FOR JUSTICE

• RACIAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE

  $17,712

  2023 · BREATHE PROVIDENCE PROJECT

• CITY OF HOLYOKE

  $13,500

  2022 · MUNICIPAL AND COMMUNITY BASED PARTNER AWARD

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST

  $3,507,139

  2023 · GRANTS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,411,821

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $1,097,575

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $770,545

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $676,731

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION

  $607,217

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $596,394

  2022 · For general support, landfill project, Great Bay Waterkeepers, environmental justice

• COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC

  $501,980

  2023 · DAF - Environment

• COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC

  $478,430

  2022 · DAF - Environment

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $384,035

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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