THE CLIMATE CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

2000

Street

1275 4TH ST 191

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

• Public Outreach and CommunicationsThe Climate Center has pursued multiple outreach strategies to educate decision-makers and the public about the urgency of the climate crisis and the array of accelerated, equitable solutions that the state can pursue now to address it. We published four policy briefs; hosted twelve webinars with over 5,000 total registrants; convened the 2025 California Climate Policy Summit in Sacramento (sold out with over 400 attendees); organized legislator attendance at the 2024 UN Climate Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan where we hosted three side events and press conferences; generated 69 media mentions of our work; and mobilized our supporters to take over 12,500 online actions.

  Expenses $1,559,136

• Policy Development, Implementation, and Coalition BuildingThe Climate Center advanced equitable climate policy to reduce emissions and address affordability in California in six main areas: developing equitable and safe carbon dioxide removal strategies; driving funding for natural carbon sequestration; working to make polluters pay their fair share of the states climate damages; ensuring reforms to the states flagship climate program, Cap & Trade, to make it more effective and better address the needs of frontline communities; using batteries in electric vehicles to provide resilient power for homes and businesses during outages and power back to the grid as needed; and aggregating local clean energy resources such as rooftop solar, batteries, and smart thermostats to create virtual power plants that cut costs for consumers, provide flexible power, and reduce the need for polluting gas plants.

  Expenses $841,495 · Grants $50,000 · Revenue $56,786

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,702,919

  Expenses

  $3,344,967

  Contributions

  $3,622,389

  Grants paid

  $50,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,130,318

  Expenses

  $3,157,822

  Contributions

  $3,068,304

  Grants paid

  $59,431

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,278,086

  Expenses

  $2,986,232

  Contributions

  $3,236,084

  Grants paid

  $50,000

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

  $2,416,292

  Expenses

  $2,535,284

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,057,699

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,110,617

  Expenses

  $2,023,978

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,132,339

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,341,982

  Expenses

  $1,314,402

  Assets (EOY)

  $989,012

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,334,538

  Expenses

  $1,032,098

  Assets (EOY)

  $956,106

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $814,903

  Expenses

  $1,000,343

  Assets (EOY)

  $634,604

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $929,562

  Expenses

  $760,220

  Assets (EOY)

  $488,456

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $701,188

  Expenses

  $691,833

  Assets (EOY)

  $277,591

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $869,179

  Assets (EOY)

  $314,599

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $846,356

  Assets (EOY)

  $329,200

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $497,878

  Assets (EOY)

  $105,758

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

• Carbon Cycle Institute

  $50,000

  2023 · Pass through grant

• Carbon Cycle Institute

  $50,000

  2022 · Carbon sequestration

• Carbon Cycle Institute

  $50,000

  2024 · Nature based solution work

• SF Estuary Institute

  $8,000

  2023 · Partner pass through stipend

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $163,900

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $159,378

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $153,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT RESPONSIBLE CARBON REMOVAL AND RESTORE THE CLIMATE

• REWILD

  $140,675

  2024 · RESEARCH CONSERVATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $127,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $110,500

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $110,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $105,000

  2024 · Environment

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $104,400

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $379 raised

  2024 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $216 to charity

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $380 raised

  2023 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $217 to charity

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $500 raised

  2022 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $301 to charity

• DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

  $4,355 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $3,091 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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