California · Nonprofit
Center for Creative Land Recycling
Center for Creative Land Recycling (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,577 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($97,460). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Center for Creative Land Recycling does
Mission
The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) accelerates economic development by helping communities transform blighted, contaminated, and underutilized properties into engines of opportunity. Through targeted education, strategic partnerships, and hands-on technical assistance, CCLR equips local leaders to overcome redevelopment barriers and unlock sites for investment, job creation, and long-term resilience. From rural towns and tribal lands to urban neighborhoods, CCLR catalyzes land reuse as a pathway to revitalization and inclusive growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workshops, webinars & technical assistance: Under an EPA Co-operative Agreement, CCLR provides pro-bono technical assistance, education, and resources to help communities in EPA Regions 9 and 10 navigate brownfield redevelopment, access funding, and achieve equitable land reuse through workshops, expert guidance, and an online resource center. CCLR is also the Brownfields Technical Assistance Provider (BTAP) for California DTSC's Equitable Communities Revitalization Grant (ECRG) and Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) programs.In 2025, CCLR provided technical assistance to 315 unique entities/communities for a total of 526 engagements. This TA included review of 60 EPA MAC grant applications for more than $104 million in requested funding, 41 ARC grant reviews leading to $30.9 million in secured funding, and 7 Brownfield Job Training grant applications reviewed with $3.5 million in funding secured. Additionally, CCLR hosted 17 webinars and events, and presented at 26 other webinars and events reaching 3,029 land reuse practitioners. CCLR shared timely updates on funding, education opportunities and brownfield news with approximately 13,300 land reuse professionals through its monthly…
$2,230,283 spent$653,809 earned by the program95% of program spendingOther Programs: CCLR cultivates strategic partnerships with public, private, and community groups to maintain its leadership in brownfield redevelopment. It engages in diverse program activities to deepen its expertise and adapt to the evolving redevelopment landscape. As co-manager of the National Brownfields Coalition with Smart Growth America, CCLR also evaluates policies and practices at the federal level that influence redevelopment opportunities. These initiatives, under its "Other Programs" category, are supported by unrestricted grants, without federal or state funding.
$114,780 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,345,063.
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 $334k to $703k (+110%).
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: 2017 74% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 69% · 2021 58% · 2022 35% · 2023 46% · 2024 61% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Center for Creative Land Recycling’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Jean Hamerman
Executive Director
Board chair
David Harnish
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $41k → $46k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Center for Creative Land Recycling’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
Center for Creative Land Recycling leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 Center for Creative Land Recycling.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 50% · 2019 88% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of Center for Creative Land Recycling's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Center for Creative Land Recycling draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Center for Creative Land Recycling is better cushioned than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Center for Creative Land Recycling receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.1M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$14.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Center for Creative Land Recycling
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Creative Land Recycling: 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 Center for Creative Land Recycling?
- Center for Creative Land Recycling (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,577 to it, the largest being GROUNDWORK USA INC ($97,460). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Creative Land Recycling have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $338,577 in grants to Center for Creative Land Recycling, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Creative Land Recycling?
- GROUNDWORK USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $97,460 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Creative Land Recycling 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing