Maryland · Nonprofit
American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation
American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being Breakthrough Energy Foundation ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $937k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $317k
What American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation does
Mission
To advance the science and application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to build capacity, drive development and connect the LCA community to achieve environmental sustainability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
LCA Annual Meeting. ACLCA hosts an annual meeting each year bringing together professionals from government, non-profits, academia and industry to learn about the latest research and work in life cycle assessment (LCA). Students also attend the meeting and there are activities and education opportunities specifically developed for their interests. The meeting includes pre-conference workshops, sessions and presentations of work by experts in the field. The meeting brings together all the stakeholders in the LCA community and focuses on the application of this work.ACLCA Membership provides organizations, individuals and students with a community to share their work, build capacity, access educational resources and stay up to date on the latest in LCA. ACLCA members participate on ACLCAs Committees: Education, Policy, Product Category Rule, Certification, Outreach, and Industry. Certifications from ACLCA allows those in the LCA field to demonstrate a level of expertise in LCA practice and a commitment to the ACLCA Code of Ethics. ACLCA created the LCACP, CLE and CLAR certifications and reviews and updates the exams and requirements on a yearly basis through its Certification…
Environmental LCA of Design online event: The annual Environmental Life Cycle Assessment focuses on the most recent developments in Policy, Education, and Communications as they play out at the intersection and execution of Life Cycle Assessment and Design. Join us during this three-day online spring event. Interact with a growing international community of practitioners, working together to design and develop commercially viable interventions to improve the environmental profile of the industrial economy one product, one building, one infrastructure component at a time.
LCA Institute: LCA has traditionally been developed and applied to individual technologies with a focus on results normalized to each functional unit. In a world of climate targets and sweeping technological shifts, however, there is a need to assess environmental impacts at a larger scale looking at aggregate and cumulative emissions across technology fleets.
LCACP exam - certification: The LCACP Certification is a technical professional credential achieved by demonstrated experience and advanced knowledge in the field of LCA and a commitment to the ACLCA Code of Ethics. The LCACP is reserved for professionals with a combination of educational qualifications, years of direct work experience, and publication of critically reviewed ISO-conformant LCA studies.
Textbooks: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Break-Through Energy Grant Program - The Breakthrough Energy grant supports ACLCA's PCR Open Standard through increased awareness and understanding of the Open Standard, improved quality and consistency of assessments and data generated using the Standard, enhanced collaboration and networking among stakeholders, increased demand, and uptake of the Standard, and continuous improvement of the Standard. These outcomes are expected to contribute to the wider adoption and effective application of the Open Standard in promoting sustainability and addressing global challenges.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $267k to $328k (+23%).
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.
21% of American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
William Flanagan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation’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.
Where its funders are
American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
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
American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Commerce$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation: 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 American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation?
- American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being Breakthrough Energy Foundation ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400,000 in grants to American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation.
- Who is the largest funder of American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation?
- Breakthrough Energy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Center for Life Cycle Assessment Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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