Montana · Nonprofit
Carbon Endowment Inc
Carbon Endowment Inc (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $794,680 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($794,680). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $490k
What Carbon Endowment Inc does
Mission
Protect and preserve the environment for the benefit of the public through the mitigation and prevention of CO2 emissions by acquiring and retiring fossil fuel rights, restoring lands and waters impacted by fossil fuel resource extraction, and supporting communities adversely affected by the clean energy transition.Carbon Endowments primary focus is retiring coal reserves located on or under ecologically significant landscapes, and providing support to local, public communities. Carbon Endowment believes that charitable retirement of coal in the United States will accelerate the socioeconomic shift toward renewable energy and a low-carbon future.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pursued opportunities to acquire and retire fossil fuel rights, thereby restoring lands and waters impacted by fossil fuel resource extraction.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $499k to $494k (−1%).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $346k → $76k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Endowment 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Carbon Endowment 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $795k 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 Carbon Endowment Inc
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Carbon Endowment Inc: 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 Carbon Endowment Inc?
- Carbon Endowment Inc (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $794,680 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($794,680). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Carbon Endowment Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $794,680 in grants to Carbon Endowment Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carbon Endowment Inc?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $794,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carbon Endowment Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 1 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