Colorado · Nonprofit
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,849 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,003,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc does
Mission
Educate Senior Decision makers in buisness, government and civil society about how to implement more regenerative practices profitablity in partnership with leading thinkers and organizations
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
NCS partners with educational institutions, creating curriculum, teaching and lecturing globally. Hunter Lovins helped develop MBA programs at Pinchot University and Presidio Graduate School. She teaches Principles of Sustainable Management at Fordham University. Scott King of Mission Zero project educated university students on climate and clean energy solutions, including holding fairs and competitions on student solutions. Our students now work in companies large and small, governments, and entrepreneurial endeavors around the the world. Hunter and Senior Fellows, Merijn Dols and Walter Link promoted regenerative agriculture at the UN Conference of Parties in Belem Brazil.
$1,909,210 spent100% of program spendingClean Coalition helped install microgrids across California. EcoAthletes brought sustainability solutions to the sports industry. Anthropocene Magazine brought readers solutions oriented to create a Human Age we actually want to live in. Bill Becker and Hunter Lovins published numerous articles in journals around the world. Hunter Lovins worked with Future Economy Forum to hold ten days of dialogues with heads of state, ministers, CEOs, head of NGOs, indigenous people, youth negotiators and several thousand others at the UNs COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Our newsletter educates a mailing list of more than 8,000 about solutions that they can implement in their own lives.
$9,566 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,918,776.
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 $1.6M to $2.5M (+56%).
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 32% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 34% · 2022 11% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Craig Lewis
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $207k → $553k.
14 of 32 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 Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 49% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 43% · 2022 40% · 2023 27% — 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
33% of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $890k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Natural Capitalism Solutions 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 Colorado
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Natural Capitalism Solutions 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 Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc?
- Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,432,849 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,003,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,432,849 in grants to Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,003,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 32 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