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CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC
CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,372,082 to it, the largest being Yale University ($2,457,082). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Carbon Containment Lab Inc does
Mission
The carbon containment lab (cc lab) is a public charity advancing research and education for a public benefit. The cc lab applies scientific, entrepreneurial, and investment expertise, creating an enabling environment for emergent climate solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the primary goal of the cc lab's research and educational program was advancing the scientific, technical, logistical, and economic understanding of carbon containment solutions and their effectiveness. Highly potent greenhouse gases (ghgs) with short atmospheric lifetimes, such as methane and hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (hfcs), and geologic and wood carbon containment were particular focuses. The lab disseminated findings to the public by publishing in peer-reviewed academic publications, publishing reports and whitepapers, making conference presentations, and via numerous webinars. The cc lab also ran several workshops and events that convened stakeholders relevant to advancing the programmatic mission of fostering innovative climate solutions. The cc lab also taught, mentored, and educated university students through its internship program, as well as via online webinars and professional development trainings, and supported university research on super pollutant mitigation technology. All this aided in the lab's mission to foster innovative climate solutions that serve to protect the natural environment, create jobs, protect human health, and lessen the burden on…
$1,561,917 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,561,917.
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
Dean Takahashi
Executive director (beg. 3/1/24)
Board chair
Richard Levin
Chair
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.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC’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
CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC.
“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
79% of CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC?
- CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,372,082 to it, the largest being Yale University ($2,457,082). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $6,372,082 in grants to CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC?
- Yale University is the largest funder on record, with $2,457,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 8 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