California · Nonprofit
Californians Against Waste
Californians Against Waste (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,350 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($117,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Californians Against Waste does
Mission
A) To promote the common good and welfare for the people of the community by encouraging and promoting waste reduction, material re-use, and recycling. B) To educate the public on subjects beneficial to the community that would minimize waste, reduce litter, and conserve natural resources C) To advocate for the attainment of such objectives by promoting the adoption of or rejection or adoption of ballot referenda, legislation, regulations, and judicial decisions. and by direct communications urging the general public to contact their elected representatives concerning issues related to the goals of the organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Prevention and reducing landfill methine emissions. CAW succesfully advocates for policies and programs that reduce methene emissions from land fills
$66,649 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,649.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $94k to $192k (+105%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mark Murray
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $135k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Californians Against Waste’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
Californians Against Waste leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Californians Against Waste.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 59% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of Californians Against Waste's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $89k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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.
Organizations like Californians Against Waste
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Californians Against Waste: 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 Californians Against Waste?
- Californians Against Waste (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,350 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($117,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Californians Against Waste have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $206,350 in grants to Californians Against Waste, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Californians Against Waste?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $117,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Californians Against Waste 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 2020–2024), 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