California environmental organizations

Name: Top 20 Environmental organizations in California
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There are 3,705environmental organizations in California. Combined, these Californianenvironmental organizationsemploy 19,454 people, earn more than $4 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $9 billion.

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Types of environmental organizations in California

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Natural resource conservation organizations	1,431	10,083	$2,383,173,421	$5,572,479,838
Environmental education organizations	558	4,329	$526,017,177	$1,051,967,692
Botanical nonprofits and horticultural societies	415	1,416	$151,556,830	$523,201,751
Pollution abatement and control organizations	346	1,967	$1,080,804,480	$1,205,588,213
Water quality and wetland conservation organizations	338	1,393	$271,672,521	$524,794,380
Garden clubs and horticultural programs	299	218	$29,426,518	$63,157,128
Land conservation organizations	273	1,816	$635,639,948	$3,251,315,836
Civic environmental and open space organizations	228	654	$66,988,831	$93,300,829
Energy conservation and development organizations	184	2,265	$743,117,416	$526,719,374
Environmental alliances and advocates	154	475	$44,945,418	$482,186,036

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Environmental organizations by major California cities

Metro area	Nonprofits	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Los Angeles	838	4,163	$578,592,964	$1,029,761,490
San Francisco	739	7,661	$2,313,514,962	$3,378,586,107
San Diego	385	1,265	$426,189,682	$551,515,336
Sacramento	310	1,107	$311,935,192	$752,100,565
Riverside	173	875	$135,328,564	$849,370,574
Santa Rosa	129	558	$71,366,777	$196,828,142
San Jose	128	461	$86,328,733	$857,481,638
Santa Maria	81	388	$52,829,332	$133,012,832
Oxnard	77	224	$21,206,492	$84,489,071
San Luis Obispo	73	144	$19,975,992	$90,800,214

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Job trends for California environmental organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	461
1-10	393
11-25	182
26-100	162
101 to 1,000	28
1,000+	1

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in California environmental organizations is driven by large organizations like Sierra Club, Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, The Trust for Public Land, NextGen America, and Grid Alternatives Affiliates and Subsidiaries.

Sizes of environmental organizations in California

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	889
$250k to $1M	388
$1M to $5M	282
$5M to $25M	129
$25M to $100M	19
$100M+	6

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like ClimateWorks Foundation, Climate Imperative Foundation, Center for Sustainable Energy, The Trust for Public Land, and Sierra Club earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in California environmental organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 5.9% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in California environmental organizations with more than $100 million account for 31.5% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of environmental organizations in California

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ClimateWorks Foundation

ClimateWorks Foundation amplifies the power of philanthropy to end the climate crisis through innovation, collaboration, and solutions that scale.

Revenue

$330.5m

Assets

$503.1m

Employees

164

EIN

26-2303250

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network preserves forests, protects climate and human rights by challenging corporate power, with partners and strategic campaigns.

Revenue

$12.9m

Assets

$15.4m

Employees

EIN

94-3045180

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Grid Alternatives

Grid Alternatives offers accessible renewable energy technology and job training to underprivileged communities, advancing economic and environmental justice.

Revenue

$23.1m

Assets

$33.3m

Employees

227

EIN

26-0043353

IRS type

501(c)(3)

TreePeople

TreePeople inspires and supports personal responsibility for the urban environment by uniting nature-based solutions, research, and community engagement.

Revenue

$13.1m

Assets

$18.1m

Employees

151

EIN

23-7314838

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California State Parks Foundation

California State Parks Foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the California State park system for the benefit of all.

Revenue

$10.4m

Assets

$16.3m

Employees

EIN

94-1707583

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation partners with businesses, agriculture and government to protect California's land, air and water through collaboration and restoration.

Revenue

$5.4m

Assets

$8.0m

Employees

EIN

94-3232437

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Sierra Club

Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than two million members and supporters.

Revenue

$167.5m

Assets

$147.1m

Employees

1,052

EIN

94-1153307

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Sierra Club Foundation

Sierra Club Foundation educates and empowers people to protect the environment through programs like Our Wild America and Beyond Coal.

Revenue

$87.7m

Assets

$208.0m

Employees

EIN

94-6069890

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Trust for Public Land

Creates and protects land for healthy communities. Helped plan and fund parks, completed 47 conservation projects, and passed 78% of ballot measures for $662 million.

Revenue

$193.3m

Assets

$308.2m

Employees

382

EIN

23-7222333

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Peninsula Open Space Trust

Post protects open space on the Peninsula and in the South Bay, creating a network of protected lands for people and nature.

Revenue

$30.2m

Assets

$318.8m

Employees

EIN

94-2392007

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Earth Island Institute

Environmental organization founded in 1982 by David R. Brower, supporting responsible initiatives and supporting young environmental leaders through awards.

Revenue

$23.7m

Assets

$29.6m

Employees

296

EIN

94-2889684

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Carbon Mapper

Carbon Mapper remotely senses methane and CO2 emissions at facility level for global monitoring. Future goal: daily satellite-based real-time monitoring.

Revenue

$17.7m

Assets

$20.9m

Employees

EIN

85-3149996

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Climate Emergency Fund

The Climate Emergency Fund supports nonviolent climate activists to raise awareness and demand urgent action, inspiring government and corporate decarbonization efforts.

Revenue

$6.1m

Assets

$1.3m

Employees

EIN

84-2151545

IRS type

501(c)(3)

John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust

Protects open space, ranches, farms, and shoreline in Contra Costa County for environmental sustainability; promotes local environmental awareness through outreach.

Revenue

$5.4m

Assets

$25.5m

Employees

EIN

68-0194652

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Wildlife Heritage Foundation

The Wildlife Heritage Foundation is dedicated to protecting, enhancing, and restoring wildlife habitat on lands conserved for the benefit of future generations. They provide outdoor educational and recreational events for all ages, with a particular ...

Revenue

$6.4m

Assets

$100.6m

Employees

EIN

94-3352965

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Eden Reforestation Projects

Eden Reforestation Projects fights poverty and deforestation through fair employment, planting 350M trees across seven countries in 2021.

Revenue

$26.6m

Assets

$7.0m

Employees

EIN

95-4804581

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Filoli

Filoli: Historic estate and garden preserving California's rich history with beauty, nature, and shared stories. Publicly operated in Woodside, CA.

Revenue

$14.4m

Assets

$25.3m

Employees

109

EIN

95-2996648

IRS type

501(c)(3)

United States Energy Foundation

The United States Energy Foundation promotes clean energy and combats climate change by funding education, analysis, and marketing strategies.

Revenue

$133.3m

Assets

$127.9m

Employees

122

EIN

83-1740146

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Sempervirens Fund

Sempervirens Fund permanently preserves natural resources in the Santa Cruz Mountains through strategic land acquisitions and outreach efforts.

Revenue

$12.8m

Assets

$38.4m

Employees

EIN

94-2155097

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Pachamama Alliance

Empowers Amazonian indigenous people to protect their lands and culture. Uses insights to inspire global change for a just society.

Revenue

$6.3m

Assets

$4.2m

Employees

EIN

94-3249793

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "C00: Environment: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

California environmental organizations

Types of environmental organizations in California

Environmental organizations by major California cities

Job trends for California environmental organizations

Sizes of environmental organizations in California

Directory of environmental organizations in California

ClimateWorks Foundation

Rainforest Action Network

Grid Alternatives

TreePeople

California State Parks Foundation

Sustainable Conservation

Sierra Club

Sierra Club Foundation

The Trust for Public Land

Peninsula Open Space Trust

Earth Island Institute

Carbon Mapper

Climate Emergency Fund

John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust

Wildlife Heritage Foundation

Eden Reforestation Projects

Filoli

United States Energy Foundation

Sempervirens Fund

The Pachamama Alliance

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