California · Nonprofit
California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy
California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,050 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CONST IND LABOR MGMT CO OP TRUST ($217,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy does
Mission
The mission of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy is to convene broad roundtable dialogues in the areas of energy, water, transportation, telecommunications and technology, housing, and circular economy. Our participants include leaders from across California representing business, labor, state and local government, and respected environmental organizations. Our dialogues take place both in state and through study travel projects designed to maximize the exchange of information, learn about new technological developments abroad, and explore common ground among our diverse participants. CFEE continually monitors the many complex issues facing California in our key issue areas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CFEE held four high level conferences focused on our core topics of energy, transportation, technology and broad, and water. Key accomplishments in our conferences during 2024 included:1. Accelerating the construction and deployment of new energy projects to meet state needs, considering the opportunities for carbon capture and how nuclear power could increase the pathway to a carbon neutral energy future, and evaluating opportunities to manage costs.2. How the switch to autonomous vehicles and bikes and pedestrian usage are changing our transportation needs and landscape, planning for decarbonization at ports and airports and for trucking, challenges in paying for and deploying the states public transit and high-speed rail project, and developing transportation solutions for a functional statewide EV infrastructure.3. Understanding the challenges with implementing the Broadband For All amid the complicated federal and state funding opportunities, the role of AI and how it can be used to accelerate opportunities in healthcare, education, and logistics, considering the downsides and perils of AI misinformation, job losses through automation and obsolescence, and the expanded…
$978,936 spent61% of program spendingCFEE conducted three study travel projects in 2024. The projects facilitate real life experiences and relationship building to help provide for more successful policy making.CFEE conducted a study travel project to the United Kingdom studying the partnership between our two countries in supply lines and energy security among other topics. We met with Llyods of London to examine the need for California to update insurance protocols to respond to a shrinking insurance market and what this global does to set rates, we toured the countrys new largest construction site for the Sizewell C nuclear power plant while examining the workings of the active Sizewell B power plant before moving on to see the UKs efforts to capitalize on the need for small modular nuclear reactors. Sustainable aviation fuel was another key technological item explored and studied. The UKs efforts in offshore wind are world leading and provided a snapshot of what California may need to prepare for as it explores the same opportunities.The second study travel project was held in Colorado and New Mexico, and it focused on the circular economy and recycling. The trip featured best practices on legislation with…
$630,052 spent39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,608,988.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $3.5M (+12%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jay Hansen
President & CEO
Board chair
Curt Augustine
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $104k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $94k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Natural Resources Defense Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy raised.
From the IRS filings of California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy’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 Foundation on the Environment & the Economy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Foundation on the Environment & the Economy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 37% — 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
92% of California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Foundation on the Environment & the Economy is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy: 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 Foundation on the Environment & the Economy?
- California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,050 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CONST IND LABOR MGMT CO OP TRUST ($217,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $370,050 in grants to California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy?
- CALIFORNIA CONST IND LABOR MGMT CO OP TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $217,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy 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.
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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 6 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