California · Nonprofit
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($342,284). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $623k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty does
Mission
The mission of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (cotap) is to empower individuals and organizations in developed countries to address both climate change and global poverty. Cotap counteracts your carbon emissions through certified forestry projects in least-developed regions which create transparent, accountable, and life- changing earnings for rural farming communities where income levels are less than $2 per day.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, cotap continued helping individuals and organizations to address their unavoidable carbon emissions while creating income for the poor. Individuals and organizations offset 16,773.674 tonnes, raising $226,444.59 in funding for our partner projects in nicaragua, uganda, india, fiji, indonesia, and mexico.this represents a drop of only 4.5% from 2022, despite the overall voluntary carbon market dropping 61% in 2023, according to ecosystem marketplace. We also experienced substantial costs in rebuilding the website due to the 2022 hack. These factors created a cash crunch which in turn led to a decreased marketing spend as well as pausing the executive directors salary at the end of 2023. Cotaps in-kind google ads grant worth up to ~$40k in monthly advertising, as well as a search engine optimization (seo) engagement, continued to not realize their potential.no stakeholder meetings or project visits were conducted in 2023. As mentioned in our previous report, we released a 20-minute documentary in january 2023 about our visit to the khasi hills community redd+ partner project in india, which can be seen at https://youtube.com/cotap1. In april 2023, cotap paused allocations…
$290,559 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $290,559.
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 $186k to $403k (+116%).
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.
99% of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty’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. 4 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
Timothy R Whitley
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $84k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Offsets To Alleviate Poverty’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 Offsets To Alleviate Poverty leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Offsets To Alleviate Poverty.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 59% — 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
43% of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
92% of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Offsets To Alleviate Poverty holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty: 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 Offsets To Alleviate Poverty?
- Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,890 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($342,284). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $622,890 in grants to Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $342,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty 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 14 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