- Revenue 2024
- $614,899
- Expenses 2024
- $793,525
Program services were 57.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- O50
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- PO BOX 223702
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
Mission
To educate and inspire through environmental stewardship.
Activities or mission (Part I)
MEarth mission is to educate and inspire through environmental stewardship. We deliver K-12 environmental stewardship education programs for Monterey County youth and community members.
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Community Programs - Healthy, connected, resilient communities are the foundation to a sustainable future. Our Community Connect programs provides opportunities for local residents of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, to learn more about how we can better care for ourselves,our communities, and our environment. We offerculinary and garden workshops, community restoration events, eco-volunteerism, and supporting environmental sustainability through community partnerships.
Expenses $126,892 · Revenue $7,141
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Non School Day Youth Programs - Mearth offers 5 weeks of Summer Camp in addition to After School programs at various times throughout the year to local youth. Campers range from Kindergarten to 8th Grade, and programs reflect the same values and activities outlined under School Day Youth Programs above.
Expenses $125,826 · Revenue $30,761
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School Day Youth Programs - Students of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds experience the simple, yet powerful acts of planting, tending, harvesting, cooking, and connecting to their food and environment. This takes place inour LEED-certified culinary classroom, organic edible garden, pollinator gardens, and pond. Students also explore and restore local habitats. MEarth staff also supports Carmel Unified School District teachers to bring traditional classroom learning to life at our habitat.
Expenses $103,840 · Revenue $94,070
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Facilities Stewardship - Using all organic gardening methods, MEarth staff maintain 10.5 acres of the Hilton Bialek Habitat, which includes LEED certified culinary classroom, outdoor kitchen, wood-fired oven, organic edible garden, heirloom fruit orchard, off-grid solar greenhouse, pollinator gardens, threatened red-legged frog pond sanctuary, and CA native plant nursery. MEarth models sustainable behaviors and operations for students to learn from and employ at home and in their communities.
Expenses $96,492 · Revenue $36,086
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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Karin Stratton
Former ED
- Total calculated
- $97,601
- From this org
- $86,915
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,686
- Hours/week
- 40
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Carol Olson
Sec. / Inter ED
- Total calculated
- $27,170
- From this org
- $27,170
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Andrea Lewis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cameron Leonard
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Brett Melone
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Todd Holman
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lauren Noel
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Emily Reistetter
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Erin Fogg
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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John Long
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Meghan Macaluso
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Katie Reneker
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $614,899
- Expenses
- $793,525
- Contributions
- $393,708
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $777,431
- Expenses
- $595,811
- Contributions
- $594,826
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $754,495
- Expenses
- $644,838
- Contributions
- $549,909
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $609,583
- Expenses
- $491,645
- Assets (EOY)
- $319,095
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $420,386
- Expenses
- $427,683
- Assets (EOY)
- $271,071
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $585,423
- Expenses
- $488,753
- Assets (EOY)
- $255,752
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $528,832
- Expenses
- $547,881
- Assets (EOY)
- $113,363
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $522,886
- Expenses
- $595,890
- Assets (EOY)
- $135,704
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $566,624
- Expenses
- $564,826
- Assets (EOY)
- $222,305
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $468,066
- Expenses
- $485,087
- Assets (EOY)
- $210,419
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $468,066
- Expenses
- $485,087
- Assets (EOY)
- $210,419
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $537,222
- Expenses
- $435,589
- Assets (EOY)
- $233,245
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
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$25,000
2024 OPERATING SUPPORT
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$25,000
2023 OPERATING SUPPORT
-
2024
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2024 Genral Support
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.