California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,065,174 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,728,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What California Environmental Voters does
Mission
To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and protect the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building Power program - The Building Power Program exists to build new constituencies and regional leadership. In battleground regions across California, we mobilize communities of color and youth around environmental justice policy priorities and train local policy makers and advocates to push for the prioritization of bold climate policy solutions and strengthening democracy.
$1,011,750 spent73% of program spendingRegulatory program - The Regulatory Advocacy program is operated across the state of California to pass clean energy and transportation regulations. We engage with state regulatory agencies, boards, and commissions that are tasked with actually implementing clean energy and decarbonization targets that are mandated by state law.
$310,761 spent22% of program spendingThe Federal Advocacy program works to cultivate congressional environmental champions and accelerate climate policy progress at the national level.
$47,575 spent3% of program spendingThe California Environmental Voters Democracy program works to expand and educate the electorate, close voter participation gaps, and strengthen democracy across the state to create a truly participatory democracy.
$14,200 spent1% of program spendingThe California Environmental Voters Budget Advocacy program aimed to leverage Californias state budget surplus to increase the climate investments prioritize equitable climate solution for all Californians.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,384,286.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+56%).
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.
98% of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Mary Creasman
CEO
Board chair
Fran Diamond
Pres & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $189k → $1.2M.
2 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $165k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Environmental Voters Education Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS’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
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 72% · 2019 58% · 2020 73% · 2021 76% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — 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
18% of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- California Environmental Voters Ed Fund · exempt
- Elect Climate Champions Fund · exempt
- Cev Small Contributor Committee · exempt
- Cev Independent Expenditure Committee · exempt
- Ca Environmental Voters Federal PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS: 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 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS?
- CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,065,174 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,728,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $8,065,174 in grants to CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,728,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing