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GRASSROOTS ECOLOGY

EIN 81-3707643 PALO ALTO, CA

Revenue 2023
$2,249,954
Expenses 2023
$2,005,713

Program services were 80.2% 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
3921 E BAYSHORE 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).

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.

  • KATE DOLKAS

    DEVELOPMENT DIR.

    Total calculated
    $107,186
    From this org
    $106,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,094
    Hours/week
    40

  • JUNKO BRYANT

    CO-EXEC DIRECTR

    Total calculated
    $98,554
    From this org
    $97,460
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,094
    Hours/week
    30

  • ALEX VON FELDT

    CO-EXEC DIRECTR

    Total calculated
    $91,054
    From this org
    $89,960
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,094
    Hours/week
    30

  • KIT GORDON

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDY FENSELAU

    VICE-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL WU

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CASEY MULLINS

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID SMERNOFF

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BARBARA ERNY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JERRY HEARN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TINA HUGG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAPJIT TULSI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JULIO CALDERON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BART WESTCOTT

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,249,954
    Expenses
    $2,005,713
    Contributions
    $836,147
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,719,713
    Expenses
    $1,796,832
    Contributions
    $705,504
    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
    $1,939,340
    Expenses
    $1,674,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,253,916

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,907,095
    Expenses
    $1,664,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,186,690

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,721,467
    Expenses
    $1,693,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $924,808

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,110,584
    Expenses
    $1,478,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $714,050

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

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

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.