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MEARTH

EIN 26-2973625 CARMEL, CA

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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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Karin Stratton

    Former ED

    Total calculated
    $97,601
    From this org
    $86,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,686
    Hours/week
    40
  • Carol Olson

    Sec. / Inter ED

    Total calculated
    $27,170
    From this org
    $27,170
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Andrea Lewis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cameron Leonard

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brett Melone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Todd Holman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lauren Noel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Reistetter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Erin Fogg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • John Long

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meghan Macaluso

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,583
    Expenses
    $491,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,095
  • 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

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.