Environmental organizations
There are 6,657 environmental organizations in the United States. Combined, these environmental organizations employ 124,650 people, earn more than $15 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $49 billion.
Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. 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.
Subcategories within environmental organizations:
Types of environmental organizations
| Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
3,453 | $10,599,962,605 | |
1,096 | $4,288,823,686 | |
974 | $1,846,839,010 | |
669 | $1,415,772,578 | |
598 | $1,071,931,564 | |
550 | $1,071,467,274 | |
310 | $303,946,770 | |
280 | $148,047,642 | |
254 | $1,986,872,380 | |
170 | $687,279,612 |
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Job trends for Environmental organizations
- Employment in Environmental organizations is driven by large organizations like The National Trust, Nature Conservancy, Student Conservation Association (SCA), Goodwill Southern California, and Alliance for Sustainable Energy.
- The largest employers tend to be environmental education programs, land conservation groups, natural resource conservation nonprofits, water and wetland protection organizations, and botanical gardens.
Sizes of environmental organizations
- Large organizations like Nature Conservancy, The National Trust, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, The Conservation Fund, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Environmental organizations.
- Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 9.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Environmental organizations with more than $100 million account for 29.1% of nonprofit earnings.
- The highest earning organizations tend to be land conservation groups, natural resource conservation nonprofits, energy conservation organizations, water and wetland protection organizations, and environmental education programs.
Directory of environmental organizations
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation
Revenue
$23.7m
Assets
$97.0m
Employees
467
EIN
11-2417338
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
Revenue
$5.3m
Assets
$6.7m
Employees
36
EIN
58-1620669
IRS type
501(c)(3)
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NMSF)
Revenue
$10.4m
Assets
$9.6m
Employees
56
EIN
94-3370994
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Forest Foundation
Revenue
$15.3m
Assets
$166.7m
Employees
47
EIN
52-1235124
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Rainforest Trust
Revenue
$21.2m
Assets
$25.1m
Employees
51
EIN
13-3500609
IRS type
501(c)(3)
National Geographic Society (NGS)
Revenue
$188.2m
Assets
$1.7b
Employees
695
EIN
53-0193519
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Ecoamerica
Revenue
$1.1m
Assets
$2.6m
Employees
45
EIN
20-3895611
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Grand Canyon Association
Revenue
$11.1m
Assets
$17.6m
Employees
153
EIN
86-0179548
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Forests
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$7.4m
Employees
25
EIN
53-0196544
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Public Citizen
Revenue
$5.2m
Assets
$4.6m
Employees
84
EIN
23-7104508
IRS type
501(c)(4)
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