Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CELSIUS INC
CELSIUS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ($80,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $-8107
What Celsius Inc does
Mission
Educating the public about the science and economics of climate change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Celsius activities were focused on ongoing research and public education related to public policies to address climate change and associated labor and environmental justice concerns. Key areas of activity: research on the development of a carbon border adjustment (cba) policy to ensure fair trade practices in the context of industrial decarbonization in the united states; research and stakeholder engagement on the implementation of federal "buy clean initiative" procurement programs established under the inflation reduction act; research on federal policies to advance the decarbonization of us heavy industrial production (emphasis on steel, aluminum, cement and chemicals production); research and publications supporting the development of regulatory programs authorized by the climate leadership and community protection act in the state of new york (focus on the design of the new york cap and investor "nyci"program, with emphasis on designing the program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the most economically efficient and socially just way, while also reducing criteria air pollution exposure in minority and low-income communities); advancement of publication of research on…
$174,531 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $174,531.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $64k to $116k (+80%).
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.
0% of CELSIUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Wesley Look
Executive director/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.
From the IRS filings of CELSIUS 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
CELSIUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CELSIUS 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
CELSIUS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CELSIUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 297 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 297 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CELSIUS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CELSIUS 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 CELSIUS INC?
- CELSIUS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ($80,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CELSIUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $90,000 in grants to CELSIUS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CELSIUS INC?
- NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CELSIUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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