Vermont · Nonprofit
COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC
COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,435,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,605,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $794k
What Collective Change Lab Inc does
Mission
Collective change lab, inc. Is a charitable, educational, and scientific organization whose mission is to engage in innovative and highly effective methods of scaling transformative and collective change in order to radically expand empathy, human potential, and justice. We believe by working collectively and collaboratively at the community, regional, and global levels it will be possible for society to fix the injustices in our systems and the harm being done to our planet. Ccl meets the current moment by providing practical inspiration, insight and guidance for attaining transformational collective change. The collective change lab focuses on three main activities: reasearch, practice, and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Research: released a tool box for philanthropy on transformational systems change, completed a cohort on collective power and released new research around collective power. Practice: developed and delivered a new innovative curriculum on healing centered systems change. Consulted inernationally and in the us on healing centered systems change. Narrative change: published highly read articles on how systems transform, healing systems, and systems storytelling. Spoke in high profile venues around the world on healing centered systems change.
$702,002 spent$205,098 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $702,002.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $287k to $790k (+175%).
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.
83% of COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $750k → $1.4M.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC’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
COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 67% · 2022 51% · 2023 69% — 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
61% of COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M 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
COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC: 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 COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC?
- COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,435,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,605,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,435,000 in grants to COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,605,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLECTIVE CHANGE LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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