California · Nonprofit
350 BAY AREA
350 BAY AREA (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,644 to it, the largest being 350ORG ($208,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $558k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $379k
What 350 Bay Area does
Mission
We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
350 Bay Area's youth led Mobilizing Team --recruits volunteers to support the organization's green house gas emissions reduction programs --organizes direct action activities that call attention to our campaigns and key climate issues --provides social media and other communications support to increase awareness of our work. Our youth climate organizer focuses on recruiting, retaining, and training a diverse group of youth to climate activism, supporting them in becoming future leaders in the climate movement. The team serves as the key intake source for new 350 Bay Area volunteers and organizes community building activities such as cross-generational mentoring opportunities with experienced activists.
$94,246 spent24% of program spendingOutreach, education and advocacy programs--350 Bay Area supports a speakers bureau, local group outreach efforts in seven of the nine Bay Area counties, climate emergency mobilization virtual summits, legislative advocacy, and campaigns to support the 350 Bay Area platform. The 350 Bay Area platform aims to ensure resilient, safe, affordable clean energy -- and clean energy jobs; speed the shift to carbon-free, affordable, safe and accessible mobility for everyone; end toxic air pollution, prioritizing heavily impacted front-line communities; create a fast transition to healthy, clean-energy buildings; and accelerate the fossil fuel end game and achieve a just transition.
$62,830 spent16% of program spending350 Bay Area's Clean Energy Program advocates an Advanced Community Energy Model for California to modernize and democratize energy generation and delivery. We seek a resilient and stable grid capable of providing all the renewable energy and storage necessary to reach California's climate goals. We support and protect Community Choice Energy (CCE) and Net Energy Metering (NEM) from challenges by the investor owned utilities. Nearly everyone in the Bay Area now receives their electricity from energy generation purchased by CCE's, rather than investor-owned utilities. We are recognized by the California Public Utilities Commission as a legal party in rule-makings related to roof-top solar incentives, microgrids, and other distributed energy resources. We also consult with legislators and other non-profits to promote local, decentralized resiliency, to support CCEs and more socially equitable ways of reaching 100% renewable energy.
$62,830 spent16% of program spendingFast Path to Clean Indoor Air -- This 350 Bay Area pilot project provided portable heat pumps and air purifiers to neighborhoods heavily impacted by air pollution. 350 Bay Area has convened key partners to create a roadmap for policy and successful implementation. Each participant received equipment and support, with training to assist them in best using and maintaining the air purifier and portable heat pump. This pilot provided information for shaping specific solutions that can be rolled out quickly and improve the lives of heavily impacted communities. PROJECT COST: The pilot project will cost $205,000. To date $150,000 has been raised from grant funding and $55,000 is needed for successful completion. The pilot, benefitting 30 households, starts February 1, 2023 and ends May 1, 2024.
$94,245 spent24% of program spendingOur seven local groups prioritize different relevant local issues in their cities and counties. For example, Napa and Sonoma have been more impacted by wildfires, and are more agricultural, encountering different land use and outdoor and migrant worker equity issues. More urban counties prioritize issues like public transportation and walkable communities. All of our groups are working to figure out how to decarbonize across sectors. 350 Bay Area is developing toolkit to provide resources needed to educate policy makers about best practices around the Bay Area and beyond.
$72,011 spent$72,011 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $386,162.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $177k to $335k (+89%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of 350 BAY AREA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Laura Neish
Executive Director/Secretary
Board chair
Jack Fleck
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $11k → $305k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 350 BAY AREA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
350 BAY AREA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 350 BAY AREA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 49% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of 350 BAY AREA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
350 BAY AREA draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
350 BAY AREA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like 350 BAY AREA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 350 BAY AREA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 350 BAY AREA?
- 350 BAY AREA (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,644 to it, the largest being 350ORG ($208,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 350 BAY AREA have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,245,644 in grants to 350 BAY AREA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 350 BAY AREA?
- 350ORG is the largest funder on record, with $208,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 350 BAY AREA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing