New York · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION
ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,655,474 to it, the largest being GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ($6,542,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $641k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Advocates for Climate Innovation does
Program
Climate policy initiatives: seeks to (1) gain the inclusion of carbon dioxide removal, one of the major necessary components of a global climate solution, in u.s. Climate policy, and (2) advance u.s. Policy support for next-generation geothermal power.
$1,892,616 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $7.5M (−62%).
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.
Board chair
Roger T Ullman
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $450k → $1.2M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $130k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Climate Innovation Action Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 54% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 33% — 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.
Where its funders are
ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION?
- ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,655,474 to it, the largest being GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ($6,542,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $12,655,474 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION?
- GRANTHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT is the largest funder on record, with $6,542,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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