California · Nonprofit
MEARTH
MEARTH (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,910,709 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION ($775,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $615k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $423k
What Mearth does
Mission
To educate and inspire through environmental stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Programs - Healthy, connected, resilient communities are the foundation to a sustainable future. Our Community Connect programs provides opportunities for local residents of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, to learn more about how we can better care for ourselves,our communities, and our environment. We offerculinary and garden workshops, community restoration events, eco-volunteerism, and supporting environmental sustainability through community partnerships.
$126,892 spent$7,141 earned by the program28% of program spendingNon School Day Youth Programs - Mearth offers 5 weeks of Summer Camp in addition to After School programs at various times throughout the year to local youth. Campers range from Kindergarten to 8th Grade, and programs reflect the same values and activities outlined under School Day Youth Programs above.
$125,826 spent$30,761 earned by the program28% of program spendingSchool Day Youth Programs - Students of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds experience the simple, yet powerful acts of planting, tending, harvesting, cooking, and connecting to their food and environment. This takes place inour LEED-certified culinary classroom, organic edible garden, pollinator gardens, and pond. Students also explore and restore local habitats. MEarth staff also supports Carmel Unified School District teachers to bring traditional classroom learning to life at our habitat.
$103,840 spent$94,070 earned by the program23% of program spendingFacilities Stewardship - Using all organic gardening methods, MEarth staff maintain 10.5 acres of the Hilton Bialek Habitat, which includes LEED certified culinary classroom, outdoor kitchen, wood-fired oven, organic edible garden, heirloom fruit orchard, off-grid solar greenhouse, pollinator gardens, threatened red-legged frog pond sanctuary, and CA native plant nursery. MEarth models sustainable behaviors and operations for students to learn from and employ at home and in their communities.
$96,492 spent$36,086 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $453,050.
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 2023 to 2024, from $436k to $651k (+49%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of MEARTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $126k → $265k.
1 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MEARTH’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
MEARTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 47% · 2019 45% · 2020 35% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 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
38% of MEARTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
66% of MEARTH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MEARTH is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MEARTH
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 MEARTH: 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 MEARTH?
- MEARTH (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,910,709 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION ($775,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEARTH have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,910,709 in grants to MEARTH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEARTH?
- BERKSHIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEARTH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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