Colorado · Nonprofit
FUTURE EARTH
FUTURE EARTH (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,872 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,480,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Future Earth does
Mission
To advance research in support of transformations to global sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global sustainability research: as part of an international network with the mission to advance research in support of transformations to global sustainability, the organization leads several key functions of the distributed global secretariat, which includes communications, finance, research and innovation, networks, as well as coordination.
$1,534,673 spentof which $908,613 as grants$6,877 earned by the program53% of program spendingSustainability research and innovation congress (sri): an annual, global convening of the global sustainability community aimed at inspiring action and promoting a sustainability transformation.
$846,646 spent$231,959 earned by the program29% of program spendingAnthropocene magazine: a first-of-its kind publication to focus specifically on the anthropocene, a new epoch in the geologic history of the planet named for humanity's influence on the globe. Its global audience has grown dramatically. It is now available in university libraries around the world; it reaches over 120,000 unique web visitors every month; and it has more than 45,000 subscribers to its two newsletters.
$529,117 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,910,436.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $708k to $3.3M (+360%).
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: 2022 47% · 2023 27% · 2024 76% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of FUTURE EARTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Erica Key
CEO
Board chair
Maria Uhle
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $896k.
From the IRS filings of FUTURE EARTH’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
FUTURE EARTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
FUTURE EARTH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FUTURE EARTH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FUTURE EARTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record.
- National Science Foundation$6.9M
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 FUTURE EARTH
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 Colorado
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
58%
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 FUTURE EARTH: 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 FUTURE EARTH?
- FUTURE EARTH (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,872 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($2,480,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURE EARTH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,600,872 in grants to FUTURE EARTH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURE EARTH?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,480,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURE EARTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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