Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,381,991 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,846,880). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What National Caucus of Environmental Legislators does
Mission
The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental health: ncel works on a wide variety of environmental health issues including reducing plastic pollution, protecting the public from toxic chemicals, and restoring a healthier mississippi river. State actions and collaboration across state lines plays a crucial role in ensuring safe water, air, and consumer products for all. Ncel's staff organizes state legislators to keep them up to date on the most pressing environmental health issues, and provides them with the tools to pursue policies in their states.
$753,844 spentof which $25,000 as grants21% of program spendingConservation: wildlife, their habitats, and natural landscapes everywhere are increasingly threatened by human activity and climate change. Ncel equips state legislators with resources and knowledge to advance actions that conserve and restore landscapes, wetlands, and species. In addition, ncel's staff organizes state legislators to keep them up-to-date on the most pressing conservation issues, and provides them with the tools to advance protections in their states.
$1,177,452 spentof which $99,000 as grants33% of program spendingAnnual forum: ncel's staff organizes an annual forum for state legislators to keep them up-to-date on the most pressing environmental health issues and provides them with the tools to pursue policies in their states.
$363,982 spent10% of program spendingClimate & energy: state legislators witness the daily impact that a changing climate has on their state. They understand that action must be taken now in order to build a clean energy economy for the future. Ncel participants are working to ensure their states make deep reductions in carbon emissions through energy efficiency, increased renewable energy, beneficial electrification, and carbon pricing. These legislators are also working to prevent environmental damage from fossil fuel development. In addition, ncel empowers state legislators by keeping them up-to-date on the most pressing climate and energy issues and providing them with the tools to pursue solutions in their states. Ocean: climate change is having drastic impacts on ocean ecosystems and coastal communities, yet oceans and coastlines also offer innovative opportunities for climate resilience and adaptation. Ncel supports lawmakers in coastal states working to adopt renewable offshore energy, preserve and protect coastal ecosystems, reduce plastic pollution and marine debris, and effectively develop coastal resilience plans that account for future impacts like sea level rises. Ncel's staff organizes state…
$1,227,307 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,522,585.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.0M to $4.1M (+36%).
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 4% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $544k → $2.1M.
4 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 39% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
43% of NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS?
- NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,381,991 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,846,880). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $11,381,991 in grants to NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,846,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 43 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