California · Nonprofit
LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR
LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,813,448 to it, the largest being THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION ($3,030,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator does
Mission
The organization was formed to perform and carry out expressly charitable purposes. The specific exempt purposes of the organization are (I) to accelerate the comercialization of clean technologies by providing support, education, workforce training, mentorship and networking for non-profit and for-profit start-up clean technology companies located in the region of los angeles, california; (ii) to conserve the natural environment and promote the ecologically sound and sustainable use of environmental resources; (iii) to lessen the burdens of government through advancement of economic opportunities in the area of clean technology; and (iv) to engage in any and all other charitable and educational activities permitted to an organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended (the "code").
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Market transformation: to accelerate system change across zero emissions transportation, clean energy, and sustainable cities, laci convenes public-private partnerships to align key stakeholders on ambitious regional goals and advance progress towards those goals by pursuing bold targets, pilots, and policies that are equity-driven, create quality jobs, and grow the economy. In 2018, laci first convened the transportation electrification partnership (tep), an unprecedented multi-year partnership among local, regional, and state stakeholders that is working to accelerate progress towards transportation electrification in the greater la region in advance of the 2028 olympic and paralympic games. In 2023, we launched the clean energy partnership to accelerate the reduction of ghg emissions in the la region by an additional 15% across the electricity, building, and transportation sectors by 2028. Since 2019, laci has developed and implemented cleantech pilots with and in communities throughout la county (for example: san pedro, south central, pacoima), testing market-ready technology and business model innovations to meet community needs, and surfacing learnings to scale those…
$4,687,545 spentof which $5,405 as grants30% of program spendingUnlocking innovation: laci incubates and accelerates cleantech startups and helps commercialize their technologies by providing in-class coaching and advice to founders, facilitating investment preparation and assistance with shared business services, and providing access to high-value resources. We offer three tiers of cohort-based program support: innovators for pre-commercial, early-stage energy entrepreneurs; our core incubation program, to support pre-seed and seed-stage cleantech startups in southern california; and market access, a pilot centric program for series a cleantech startups ready to scale. In 2024, laci welcomed 57 companies into our programs, many of which received funding and support from laci to deploy pilots designed to advance the commercialization of their technologies. For example, female-founded thermoshade showcased the passive cooling effect their shading structure can provide in real-life settings, proving their structure creates a 20f cooler environment than under a canvas awning, and leading to projects with a local school and dairy farm. In another example, startup symmetry wood worked out of the advanced prototyping center (apc) at the la kretz…
$4,442,450 spentof which $500,000 as grants$47,000 earned by the program28% of program spendingEnhancing community: laci focuses on creating equitable pathways into the green economy through a number of programs. Laci's green jobs workforce development programs provide un/underemployed participants from underserved communities with technical training, industry-recognized certifications, career coaching, and paid internships with our laci startups and partner organizations. Since laci launched our green jobs workforce development programs in 2019, we have trained over 500 participants (average 88% people of color; 37% women, 6% justice impacted). On average, 75% of participants have been placed in paid internships, well-paying jobs (starting salaries of at least $20/hour or $41,600 annual salary), or post-secondary education. Laci also hosts gender-equity focused programs, including our women in cleantech program focused on recruiting and supporting more women in accelerating their cleantech solutions, sector expertise, and career growth. Laci also leads a middle school girls in stem program focused on inspiring girls to learn more about the climate crisis at a young age, find their agency as problem-solvers, and explore future career pathways at the intersection of stem +…
$3,916,687 spent25% of program spendingLaci stewardship of la kretz innovation campus (lkic): on behalf of the city of los angeles and ladwp, laci is proud to steward the 3.2 acre state-of-the-art la kretz innovation campus, which provides a critical hub for cleantech innovation in los angeles. The campus features the advanced prototyping center (apc), a collaborative makerspace where entrepreneurs, artists, inventors, and startups can design, build, test and certify innovative products, all under one roof. The apc features more than $11 million worth of tools, labs, and shops, including an electronics lab, biochemistry lab, cell lab, cnc machine, water jet, 3d printing, welding equipment, use of premium cad software, laser cutters, a training center, and more. Lkic also features the interactive los angeles department of water and power customer engagement lab, as well as energy efficiency and emerging technologies laboratories. The facility attracts a consistent roster of professional development workshops, community events, and panel discussions hosted by ladwp, laci, campus members, portfolio services providers and community groups. Notably, in 2024 laci was able to increase visitor activity on campus by 147%,…
$2,656,746 spent$2,102,620 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,703,428.
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 $5.2M to $14M (+169%).
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 26% · 2018 24% · 2019 52% · 2020 52% · 2021 44% · 2022 77% · 2023 75% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mathew Petersen
President and CEO
Board chair
Jim Cassleberry
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $330k → $981k.
13 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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: 2017 61% · 2018 72% · 2019 53% · 2020 27% · 2021 67% · 2022 63% · 2023 52% — 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
23% of LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
69% of LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $553k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR is better cushioned than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.9M on record.
- Department of Energy$7.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
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 LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 4 related entities
- Laci Impact Fund Gp II LLC · disregarded
- Laci Impact Gp LLC · partnership
- Laci Impact Fund LLC · partnership
- Laci Cleantech Debt Fund LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR: 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 LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR?
- LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR (California) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,813,448 to it, the largest being THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION ($3,030,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $5,813,448 in grants to LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR?
- THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,030,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR 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 46 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