California · Nonprofit
CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS
CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,815 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $685k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $765k
What Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas does
Mission
CFROG is a Ventura County-based advocacy and public education organization leading a just energy transition to protect our health, economy, and climate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Increase Science-Informed Air Quality Decision-Making in Communities. This program focuses on gathering information about pollution in local communities in Ventura County. Three primary areas of work: (1) Work with technical partners to deploy air quality sensors measuring greenhouse gases, black carbon, and other pollutants in West Ventura, Oxnard, and Port Hueneme. (2) Organize Community and Technical Advisory Committees made up of local residents and technical partners to direct air monitoring and education efforts. (3) Fill regulatory gaps in pollution data to inform better local and state policy.
$161,551 spent$147,024 earned by the program39% of program spendingShared Environmental Programs. As the only organization in the region dedicated to the clean energy transition that centers community health, and safe jobs for all, CFROG's work spans various program areas. These include: (1) Developing youth leadership. (2) Strengthening community action. (3) Seeking industry accountability. (4) Growing the green workforce.
$149,946 spent36% of program spendingAdvocate for reliable, affordable, and clean energy on the Central Coast. CFROG tracks energy development projects on the Central Coast, ensures nearby communities have the tools to engage in public decision making processes, and advocates for the protection of public health and the environment.
$100,475 spent$58,000 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,972.
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 2023 to 2024, from $498k to $778k (+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: 2020 53% · 2021 31% · 2022 49% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $95k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS’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 FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 67% · 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 61% · 2022 82% · 2023 53% — 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
50% of CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
50% of CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS'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 $383k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $389k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS: 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 FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS?
- CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,815 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $772,815 in grants to CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS 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 17 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