Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST
CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,282,409 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($1,405,094). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $100
What Climate Advisers Trust does
Mission
Climate Advisers Trust (the organization) works to raise climate ambition through sensible climate solutions that create jobs, improve living standards and address pressing social challenges.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Climate Advisers Trust prepared and publicly disseminated the forest events tracker. This web-based platform, developed with the pro bono support of the communications team at climate advisers inc., consolidated forest and nature-related events at major climate milestones such as new york climate week and the conference of the parties to the un framework convention on climate change (unfccc). The tracker served as a free and public resource to facilitate global participation and influence in discussions on forests as solutions to climate change. The organization curated a publicly accessible database of over 350 events during the 29th unfccc meeting and provided event credentials to the climate advisers inc. Team to support the tracker initiative.
$2,854 spentof which $2,854 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,854.
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 2021 to 2022, from $347k to $100 (−100%).
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: 2020 80% · 2021 39% · 2022 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Nigel Purvis
CEO
Board chair
David Gardiner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $592k → $175k.
From the IRS filings of CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST’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 ADVISERS TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 71% · 2020 48% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST's revenue fell 99% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST
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.
Public support
96%
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 ADVISERS TRUST: 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 ADVISERS TRUST?
- CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,282,409 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ($1,405,094). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,282,409 in grants to CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST?
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $1,405,094 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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