California · Nonprofit
Frontline Catalysts
Frontline Catalysts (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,616 to it, the largest being CALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC ($380,505). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $624k
What Frontline Catalysts does
Mission
Empowering Frontline Youth to Lead the Movement for Transformative Climate Justice
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Catalysts Action Leadership Institute (CALI, formerly OYACA):CALI engaged approximately 40 youth through multi-session leadership cohorts, plus an additional 6 youth through Youth Advisory Council, advocacy training, and community engagement activities. Youth participated in climate justice education, research, and civic engagement, culminating in youth-led public presentations and community events. Cohort participants completed 100120+ hours of service. FC also provided mission-related environmental justice expertise to CARB and Urban Strategies Collaborative with the City of Oakland, including community-informed review, feedback, and participation in environmental justice and community planning efforts.
$245,401 spent$5,129 earned by the program51% of program spendingFrontline Voices (Summer Program):Frontline Voices served 20 youth through a digital storytelling summer program. Youth created videos and multimedia projects focused on environmental justice and community resilience, building technical, creative, and leadership skills.
$119,012 spent25% of program spendingEco-Healing the Town:Eco-Healing the Town engaged approximately 200 youth and community residents in land-based programming that addressed urban heat, food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and organizing to build climate resilience in the Fruitvale District. Activities included school garden clubs, urban greening events, creek restoration, emergency communications systems, stewardship training, and eco-healing workshops. FC also brought its community-based environmental justice and climate resilience expertise to mission-related work with CARB and the Urban Strategies Collaborative.
$68,320 spent$5,129 earned by the program14% of program spendingClimate Justice Youth Leadership Program (CJYLD In-School):CJYLD served approximately 90 youth through in-school, electives, and lunchtime programs at 3 Title I schools in OUSD. Programming focused on climate justice education, leadership development, civic engagement, and applied learning, including youth participation in community education, organizing activities, and public meetings related to environmental health. Program work also informed FC's mission-related participation with state agencies on equity, environmental justice, and community planning.
$50,872 spent$2,564 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $483,605.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $146k to $368k (+152%).
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: 2023 36% · 2024 53% · 2025 29% · 2026 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Frontline Catalysts’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. 0 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.
Board chair
Christy Johnston Limon
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $151k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Frontline Catalysts’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
Frontline Catalysts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Frontline Catalysts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of Frontline Catalysts's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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
Frontline Catalysts has grown faster than three-quarters of the 51 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 51 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Frontline Catalysts
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Frontline Catalysts: 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 Frontline Catalysts?
- Frontline Catalysts (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $700,616 to it, the largest being CALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC ($380,505). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Frontline Catalysts have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $700,616 in grants to Frontline Catalysts, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Frontline Catalysts?
- CALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $380,505 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Frontline Catalysts 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 10 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