Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CLIMATE INSTITUTE
CLIMATE INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,300 to it, the largest being THOMAS H & BARBARA W GALE FNDTN ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $-34348
What Climate Institute does
Mission
The Climate Institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling and health and environmental effects of climate change, and any other lawful purposes which promote the institute's general goals.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Climate Institute activities and accomplishments in 2019 were as follows: 1. The Climate Institute initiated in 2016 and made its major priority in 2017 a north american supergrid to slash power sector greenhouse emissions while also enhancing grid security against devastation from solar storms, electromagnetic pulse attacks and extreme weather events. On november 29, 2017, it released the results of its 18-month study in a speaker event at george washington university in washington, dc. The report is accessible online. The financial feasibility chapter of the report was updated in 2018 and 2019 to reflect declining prices of wind and solar energy with the updated report published and circulated late summer of 2019. Since then the Climate Institute has focused on advising policymakers of the potential of a nationwide supergrid as a key element of a national or even continental infrastructure effort while also highlighting possibilities of building some smaller portions as regional high voltage direct current overlays linking largely rural sources of wind, solar and other renewable energy with load consuming areas.2. In april 2019 a widely acclaimed book by new york times writer,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2019 to 2020, from $65k to $9k (−86%).
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 INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 $15k → $25k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 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 INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 40% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
CLIMATE INSTITUTE 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. $880 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 INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like CLIMATE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
43%
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 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 INSTITUTE?
- CLIMATE INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,300 to it, the largest being THOMAS H & BARBARA W GALE FNDTN ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $191,300 in grants to CLIMATE INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATE INSTITUTE?
- THOMAS H & BARBARA W GALE FNDTN is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATE INSTITUTE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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