California · Nonprofit
ECOLOGY CENTER
ECOLOGY CENTER (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,673,244 to it, the largest being ROSEMARY KRAEMER RAITT FOUNDATION TRUST ($846,380). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Ecology Center does
Mission
Inspiring and building a sustainable, healthy, and just future for the east bay, california, and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Internal programs include recycling program and other internal programs:recycling: the center operates the residential curbside recycling program for the city of berkeley. Curbside recycling collections is a key form of waste reduction and diverts recycling materials from incinerators and landfills. The center also educates on the ecological benefits of recycling.other internal programs: the center also operates the following programs:* education and engagement program to provide environmental resource information and educate the public on sustainable living practices.* store to supply the community with a unique and hard-to-find selection of environmental products, gifts, books, and other resources.* a youth environmental academy to educate and prepare the next generation of environmental leaders.* farmer's market to provide a market for small scale regional farmers by linking them to urban communities and to promote and educate the community about sustainable agriculture.
$16,429,217 spentof which $10,789,057 as grants$598,097 earned by the program99% of program spendingFiscally sponsored projects: the center supports community groups focused on activities that promote the center's mission by providing fiscal sponsorship. The special projects consist of bay area coalition for headwaters, berkeley community gardening collaborative, bay area seed interchange library, environmental literacy curriculum project, indigenous permaculture project, west berkeley alliance for clean air and safe jobs, and greywater action.
$84,213 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,513,430.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.2M to $7.2M (+38%).
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: 2017 85% · 2018 85% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 88% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ECOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Martin Bourque
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Prager
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $251k → $827k.
11 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 ECOLOGY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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
ECOLOGY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 27% · 2019 29% · 2020 38% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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
36% of ECOLOGY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
89% of ECOLOGY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ECOLOGY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ECOLOGY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ECOLOGY CENTER
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ECOLOGY CENTER: 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 ECOLOGY CENTER?
- ECOLOGY CENTER (California) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,673,244 to it, the largest being ROSEMARY KRAEMER RAITT FOUNDATION TRUST ($846,380). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $6,673,244 in grants to ECOLOGY CENTER, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGY CENTER?
- ROSEMARY KRAEMER RAITT FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $846,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGY CENTER 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 69 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing