California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,192 to it, the largest being THE SKOLL FOUNDATION ($105,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $346k
- Net assets
- $245k
What Global Footprint Network Inc does
Mission
Our vision is that all people flourish within the means of our one planet. Our mission is to make ecological limits central to decision-making.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research - global footprint network and its staff are known for having developed the ecological footprint, the only accounting system in the world that comprehensively compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet, or each region's ecosystems can renew. It summarizes the results in a single, easy to understand metric: number of earths used. This resource accounting system can be applied, from the individual to the city to the global level. Our national footprint accounts, now managed via www.fodafo.org with global footprint network's participation, produce ecological footprint and bio-capacity data for nearly every country since 1961 and this core data is drawn from united nations data sources. Global footprint network publishes those results on its data platform which is visited by more than 500,000 researchers every year. 1000s of university resaerchers and policy analysts from around the world have downloaded ecological footprint data for research, articles and books from our website. Global footprint network's data and graphs are citied in virtually every sustainability report, as the data is used to tell a story and to demonstrate collective trends and…
$29,276 spent$29,864 earned by the program5% of program spendingPrograms & outreach - global footprint network advances novel applications of the ecological footprint through various projects including city footprint assessments, country studies and investment appraisals. We also support cities, regions, countries, businesses and other institutions by applying the ecological footprint methodology to aid in decision making and risk analysis. Outreach/communications - in order to make footprint calculations relevant and empowering for any user, we communicate the results in creative and engaging ways: *a key entry point for our communications efforts is our popular ecological footprint calculator, (http://www.footprintcalculator.org/). The footprint calculator is one of the most powerful sustainability education tools in the world, attracting more than 5 million users per year. *annual earth overshoot day media campaign (https://www.overshootday.org/) every year since 2006, global footprint network has been marking earth overshoot day: the date when humanity has exhausted the planet's ecological budget for the whole year. This year, over 90 countries covered earth overshoot day, which fell on august 2, 2023. In 2023, we have documented over…
$544,997 spent$246,413 earned by the program95% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,273.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.5M to $1.2M (−18%).
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.
47% of GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK 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
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 45% · 2020 90% · 2021 81% · 2022 61% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
57% of GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,266 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Global Footprint Network-Switzerland Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK 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 GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC?
- GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,192 to it, the largest being THE SKOLL FOUNDATION ($105,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $346,192 in grants to GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC?
- THE SKOLL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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