California · Nonprofit
NEXT TEN
NEXT TEN (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,166,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($6,165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $725k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Next Ten does
Mission
Next Ten is focused on innovation and the intersection between the economy, the environment, and quality of life issues for all californians. We provide critical data to help inform the state's efforts to grow the economy and reduce global warming emissions. Next Ten envisions an educated and engaged electorate that makes informed decisions about and participates actively in issues important to california's future. Next Ten works to achieve this vision by:- commissioning research from leading experts on complex state issues.- creating and communicating highly accessible information through a portfolio of nonpartisan educational materials.- employing innovative "out of the box" means of engagement to ensure all californians have access to the political process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
California green innovation index: a report by Next Ten that analyzes key economic and environmental indicators to help us better understand the role green innovation plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming while growing our economy. Next Ten's current intentions are to continue to follow these indicators over the next several years and it also continues to include indicators for the top 50 countries in the world. This was the 15th edition.
$235,673 spent45% of program spendingGetting to implementation: the status of local climate action in california: nov 2023. This free report was a research effort led by louise bedsworth and hanna payne at clee (center for law energy, & the environment), in partnership with ilg (institute for local government), to comprehensively survey and assess the state local climate action in california. Over the past decade+, city and state action has driven more aggressive climate action.
$151,214 spent29% of program spendingClimate adaptive urbanism for the san francisco bayshore: summer & fall 2024. This research effort is being led by professor zachary lamb and professor rob olshansky at uc berkeley. This project will aim to expand the realms of possible adaptive urbanization for the bay area and beyond. By centering property regimes that are ecologically-adaptive and supportive of collective action, the researchers hope to make alternative approaches to property central to equity-centered adaptation planning in the region. We received the first draft in may 2024 and will release the final free report in fall 2024.
$125,915 spent24% of program spendingOther program services: continue to market and maintain the nonpartisan free online california budget tool and california choices website, which provides free information on all the proposition information during the election year.
$14,312 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $527,114.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.3M (−10%).
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.
99% of NEXT TEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $870k → $595k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NEXT TEN’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
NEXT TEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NEXT TEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of NEXT TEN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M 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
NEXT TEN's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEXT TEN
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 NEXT TEN: 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 NEXT TEN?
- NEXT TEN (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,166,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($6,165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEXT TEN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,166,000 in grants to NEXT TEN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXT TEN?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXT TEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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