California · Nonprofit
Earth Lab SF
Earth Lab SF (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,796 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Earth Lab SF does
Mission
E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF builds community through collaborative, multidisciplinary art that re-envisions the Earth, environmental activism, and sustainable living with inclusive, imaginative perspectives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
E.A.R.T.H. Lab is developing a feature-length documentary film, Playing with Fire. Making artworks for creating an exhibition entitled Bazoombas in Love at Cushionworks Gallery in San Francisco. This exhibition was made in response to Annie being diagnosed with breast cancer, so it diverted some of our attention away from our film, but we are back to promoting and showing it now. Other related accomplishments included: 10 film screenings, 5 talks, 1 walking tour, 1 art show with 3 events, 1 music video, and 1 award.
$160,207 spentof which $10,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,207.
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 2022 to 2023, from $128k to $193k (+51%).
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 Earth Lab SF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $50k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Earth Lab SF’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
Earth Lab SF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Earth Lab SF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
92% of Earth Lab SF'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Earth Lab SF receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $202k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Earth Lab SF
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Earth Lab SF: 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 Earth Lab SF?
- Earth Lab SF (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,796 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Earth Lab SF have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $201,796 in grants to Earth Lab SF, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Earth Lab SF?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Earth Lab SF 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.
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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