California · Nonprofit
HABITS OF WASTE
HABITS OF WASTE (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,928 to it, the largest being THE DREISESZUN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($383,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $382k
What Habits of Waste does
Mission
Our mission is to create collective change and impactful policies, with a focus on waste reduction, for a healthier, more sustainable future. Our original organization crayon collection, now a program of Habits of Waste, also lives out this commitment to sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
During the year, we launched banners of hope palisades- see part iii, line 4(b) for more details as well healthy body, healthy planet program- see part iii, line 4(d) and related schedule o for more details.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Plastic free futures: lights camera, plastic, and beyond (lcpb) program: our lcpb program de-normalizes the use of single-use plastic and meat-based meals on-screen. We continue to work with the studios, including warner bros., paramount studios, hbo, and universal. In 2025, we expanded our work to include productions by apple tv, disney, sony, and working closely with members of the international alliance of theatrical stage employees (iatse) union. We provided swap lists for reusables, sustainability training, and climate communication training.
$233,369 spent65% of program spendingCrayon collection program: in the wake of the 2025 los angeles fires, we launched banners of hope (boh) palisades. Boh is a trauma-informed creative arts model to help children process fear, displacement, and grief caused by the fires. This project provided an opportunity for young people struggling with ongoing stresses caused by the fires to find healing and support through creative art expression via an in-school curriculum and a community art-installation. We worked with 11 schools from the pacific palisades that burned down; each created artwork to reflect the process of remembrance and looking ahead. They selected three words of hope to reflect their community and hope for the future. We printed each artwork and words on 120 large, light pole banners and displayed them across pacific (continued on schedule o) palisades and parts of brentwood.
$70,275 spent$9,975 earned by the program20% of program spendingImperfect environmentalist program: we believe in the power of individuals working collectively to make change; founder sheila morovati published "imperfect environmentalist" in 2025, encouraging everyone to take small steps to help the planet. This has formed the foundation of our outreach on "imperfect environmentalism," including speaking engagements, public outreach, and education. We are building an educational curriculum and are forging partnerships with la schools and ucla.
$32,783 spent9% of program spendingHealthy body, healthy planet program: clean beauty for all (cb4a). Cb4a focuses on reducing toxic chemicals in beauty products and making greener options more available at retailers. We are building a movement to ask retailers of beauty products to include toxin-free options, allowing customers to have healthier choices.
$23,216 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $359,643.
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 2021 to 2022, from $547k to $974k (+78%).
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: 2020 25% · 2021 3% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HABITS OF WASTE’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Eitan Popper To 012025
Director, board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $65k → $199k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 HABITS OF WASTE’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
HABITS OF WASTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 75% · 2020 46% · 2021 58% · 2022 40% · 2023 38% — 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
60% of HABITS OF WASTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
HABITS OF WASTE draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HABITS OF WASTE is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITS OF WASTE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 HABITS OF WASTE: 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 HABITS OF WASTE?
- HABITS OF WASTE (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,928 to it, the largest being THE DREISESZUN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($383,150). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITS OF WASTE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,501,928 in grants to HABITS OF WASTE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITS OF WASTE?
- THE DREISESZUN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $383,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITS OF WASTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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