New Mexico · Nonprofit
CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,877 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $546k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $537k
What Climate Change Leadership Institute does
Mission
To compel the citizenry of this country to take responsibility for our massive role in human-induced global warming by asserting bold leadership and providing seminal solutions. The organization: (1) utilizes the world wide web as a means of educating citizens about the critical problem of human induced global warming, why and how the united states must be a leader in providing solutions, and what people can do to help: (2) gives grants and financial awards to individuals and organizations for the purpose of encouraging us stewardship and responsibility on climate change; and (3) develops, plans, and implements direct action workshops, climate stewardship educational seminars, cooperative legal challenges, and advocacy movements to encourage federal, state, and local governments and us businesses to take responsibility and demonstrate climate change leadership
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Created a site on the world wide web as a means of educating citizens about the critical problem of human-induced global warming, why and how the united states (us) must be a leader in providing solutions, and what people can do to help. Several awards to invididuals and organizations totaling 18,962.85 were made for their efforts in promoting our goals. Approximately 2500 people benefited from ccli services
$193,015 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $193,015.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $198k to $537k (+172%).
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 CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $80k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE’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 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 57% · 2021 97% · 2022 54% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
66% of CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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
CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: 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 LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,877 to it, the largest being THORNBURG FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $478,877 in grants to CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- THORNBURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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