Washington · Nonprofit
CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES
CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,588 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($247,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $260k
- Net assets
- $45k
What Climate Action Families does
Mission
Helping children and families to be resilient climate advocates through training, civic engagement, outdoor opportunities and community building.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS AND EVENTS - We fostered climate action and community resilience through a values-based, holistic approach that combines community, education, and collective action. We engaged 250+ CAF members and many more broader community members in diverse activities including 8 community potlucks and cultural celebrations, 5 art build events, many musical collaborations, 4 outdoor adventures, many meetings with elected officials, several community education events around cruise ship pollution, social media creation, personal relating workshops, 5 parades and marches, 2 news channel interviews, and much more. These events brought together diverse families and youth, strengthening collective power and building relationships essential to sustained, community-driven climate advocacy.
$19,158 spent29% of program spendingINTRO TO CLIMATE JUSTICE TRAINING PROGRAM - Our classic FREE, youth-led day-long "Intro to Climate Justice Training" empowered participants with foundational knowledge of climate science and justice principles, and all of the diverse ways we can affect change together - from reforming institutions, to organizing, building solutions, resisting harmful activities, transforming ourselves and our society, and healing our communities and planet. We discussed emotions and coping skills, made art for events, learned chants and songs, spent time outdoors, and the youth made lots of friends. The program reached 44 new individuals through two training sessions held at the UW School of Social Work and trained 15 returning youth as peer facilitators, with 33% of participants from historically marginalized communities. Our program collected rich feedback from the youth which fed into programs for the next year. Courses also included a 90 minute parent program on youth mental health and the climate crisis attended by 30 parents.
$24,382 spent36% of program spendingELECTRIFY PROGRAM AND HEALTHY HOME FOR ALL - We coordinated statewide and regional partnerships to advance building electrification and environmental health, serving as the primary contact with the Pisces Foundation and managing collaboration among partner organizations. We convened monthly network meetings and project-specific working groups in Oregon and Montana. In Washington, we supported youth community education efforts alongside Shift Zero, providing public workshops and resources on electrification legislation - and successfully helped to pass an electric school bus bill. Youth participants beta tested and provided feedback on "The Switch is On Washington," a new state resource website, helping improve its usability and public engagement. The grant for this program was not renewed for 2025.
$20,420 spent30% of program spendingYOUTH CLIMATE ADVOCACY DAY - We organized Youth Climate Advocacy Day to empower young people to engage directly with policymakers, climate justice organizations, and decision-makers on issues of climate justice. Participants learned advocacy skills, shared their perspectives on climate policy, attended and testified in hearings, and contributed youth voices to legislative conversations. Through this program, youth gained hands-on civic experience and strengthened their capacity to influence policies shaping a more equitable and sustainable future.
$1,199 spent2% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAMS: Climate Grief & Empowerment: $600 revenue, $1200 expenses; UW School of Social Work Practicum Intern Program - hosted 2 masters student interns in the spring and 1 in the fall: $0 revenue, $792 expenses.
$1,992 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,151.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $23k to $41k (+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.
100% of CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Grace Stahre
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $80k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES’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
CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
98% 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 CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES: 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 CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES?
- CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,588 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($247,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $259,588 in grants to CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $247,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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