California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,261,393 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,500,096). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What California Environmental Voters Education Fund does
Mission
ENVIROVOTERS ED FUND is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the quality of the environment for all Californians. ENVIROVOTERS ED FUND works to build the capacity of environmental organizations by developing and providing tools and resources to effectively protect the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental organizing program - the environmental organizing program exists to educate communities of color and youth around environmental justice priorities and educate local leaders and advocates to push for the prioritization of bold climate solutions and strengthening democracy.
$1,250,343 spent61% of program spendingAmbassador program - the ed funds ambassador program educates and equips young leaders from the inland regions of california to become leaders in their communities on environmental and climate justice issues.
$377,409 spent19% of program spendingFederal Program - The Ed Funds Federal Program works to educate congressional environmental champions on environmental issues important to and impacting California. Additionally, it amplifies climate solutions at the national level.
$286,341 spent14% of program spendingDemocracy - The Ed Funds Democracy program works to expand and educate the electorate on their voting rights, close voter participation gaps, and strengthen democracy across the state to create a truly participatory democracy.
$124,123 spent6% of program spendingRegulatory program - the ed funds regulatory program is operated across the state of california to pass clean energy and transportation regulations. Once regulations are passed within california and waived by the environmental protection agency (epa), other states across the us will be able to adopt the same regulations that our program advocated for.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,038,216.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+49%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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
Wendy Leshgold
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $135k → $1.6M.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $355k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Environmental Voters). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
83% 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 EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 43% · 2019 35% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
55% of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- California Environmental Voters · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: 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 EDUCATION FUND?
- CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,261,393 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,500,096). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $9,261,393 in grants to CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,096 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND 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 43 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