Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CLIMATE CHANGE AI
CLIMATE CHANGE AI (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,000 to it, the largest being THE PATRICK J MCGOVERN FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $401k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Climate Change Ai does
Mission
To catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artificial intelligence (ai) and machine learning (ml) offer a powerful suite of tools to accelerate climate change mitigation and adaptation across different sectors. However, gaps in data, funding, and partnership-building infrastructure often hinder the impactful use of ai/ml for climate change applications. Climate Change Ai has developed several resources geared towards addressing these challenges by (a) cataloging critical data gaps that impede ai/ml applications in addressing climate change, and surfacing them publicly via a data gaps tool, in order to mobilize efforts to fill these data gaps, (b) conducting research on the role of funding mechanisms such as grand challenges, culminating in a publicly-available report, andsee continuation on schedule o.
$448,265 spent$279,000 earned by the program54% of program spendingCcai's conferences and events promote education, networking, and knowledge sharing. In 2024, we organized one-day workshops at top ai and machine learning venues (amld 2024, iclr 2024, and neurips 2024); these workshops drew several hundreds of participants, and collectively featured almost 200 accepted research papers. Ccai also organized two events at climate week nyc, and one event at the un climate change conference, aimed at mobilizing and building connections between academic, industry, and policy audiences.
$182,050 spent22% of program spendingThe Climate Change Ai summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence ai and/or a background in a climate change related field to tackle major climate problems using ai. Our 2023 and 2024 editions consisted of two independent components - an open to all virtual program (which in total drew 16k registered participants across both editions) and a selective in-person program (which has hosted approximately 60 participants across both editions). Courses were conducted by members of Climate Change Ai and world-renowned experts in ai and climate change.
$157,999 spent$61,451 earned by the program19% of program spendingCcai's innovation grants program awards seed grants supporting research, deployment, and the creation of datasets and tools. This innovation grants program also enables the creation of key partnerships that accelerate the research-to-deployment cycle, creating synergies between academic researchers, non-profits, startups and other companies, and governmental or intergovernmental organizations. In 2024, we continued supporting our 2022 and 2023 grantees, as well as selecting a cohort of approximately 10 new 2024 grantees. This program was run in partnership with future earth (with Climate Change Ai leading the call design, grant review and selection, and post-award grantee support, and with future earth disseminating grant funding).
$45,020 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $833,334.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $731k to $1.0M (+43%).
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.
70% of CLIMATE CHANGE AI’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. 0 of the last 2 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
Maria Joao Sousa
Executive director
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.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CHANGE AI’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 CHANGE AI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
“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 CHANGE AI draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CHANGE AI holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATE CHANGE AI
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLIMATE CHANGE AI: 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 CHANGE AI?
- CLIMATE CHANGE AI (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,000 to it, the largest being THE PATRICK J MCGOVERN FOUNDATION INC ($350,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATE CHANGE AI have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $401,000 in grants to CLIMATE CHANGE AI.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE CHANGE AI?
- THE PATRICK J MCGOVERN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE CHANGE AI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2023–2024), 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