California · Nonprofit
CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT
CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,517,396 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,028,600). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Center on Race Poverty & the Environment does
Mission
CRPE is a national environmental justice organization providing legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CLIMATE JUSTICE Our Climate Justice campaign includes advocating for a just transition, reducing direct emissions, and protecting community members from the health harms of the oil and gas industry. As the climate crisis worsens, we find ourselves with much to do. Among our major successes this year, we:. Completed our first draft of a Peoples Plan for a Just Transition for Kern County.. Filed a lawsuit against the San Joaquin Valley Air District to hold them accountable for alleged violations of their system to reduce pollution.. In response to our advocacy, the Governor signed legislation to implement the strongest state-level oversight and accountability measures on Big Oil in the nation.. Stopped many legislative attempts to lift a moratorium on under-regulated,dangerous carbon pipelines and helped push three legislative bills that will serve our oil and gas work AB 1167, AB 421,and AB 631 -- across the finish line
$922,198 spent45% of program spendingFORGOTTEN VOICESOur Forgotten Voices campaign is dedicated to addressing air and water pollution within the community. We collaborate closely with residents and community members, aiding them in the development and implementation of their vision for the community. Our efforts extend to securing funding and advocating for this vision within the framework of long-term city and county planning. This year, significant milestones include that we:. Organized residents in Lamont to engage in budget advocacy with the County, resulting in the allocation of millions of dollars towards infrastructure projects.. Assisted 13 families residing on San Jose Avenue in Delano to connect to the electrical grid, significantly lowering installation costs from $60,000-$70,000 per family to a collective amount of $34,000.. Effectively mobilized Shafter residents to oppose the expansion of the warehouse industry, culminating in the establishment of a community benefit agreement with the Wonderful Company.
$701,785 spent34% of program spendingTOXIC FREE COMMUNITIESOur Toxic Free Communities campaign works on improving toxic site cleanups and mitigating the harms of pesticide use and the poor air quality caused by pesticide use. Heres how we made progress in protecting frontline communities from toxic substances this year:. Participated in the Peoples Tribunal for Pesticides and Civil Rights.. Successfully lobbied with our allies for a more protective regulation for a cancer-causing pesticide marketed as Telone.. Brought awareness to Phibrotech Permit Renewal, leading allies to take up the fight against renewing the hazardous waste facility in Santa Fe Springs.. Obtained a commitment from the state to monitor amounts of pesticides in the air in Arvin and Lamont and reallocate funding for Vegetative Barriers in Shafter, which would help reduce particulate matter pollution throughout the community.
$413,946 spent20% of program spendingAll Other programs.
$25,691 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,063,620.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $4.1M (+56%).
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 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $1.8M.
23 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $116k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Center on Race Poverty & the Environment). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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 ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% 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 ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 34% · 2021 14% · 2022 25% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT?
- CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,517,396 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,028,600). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $15,517,396 in grants to CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,028,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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