Maine · Nonprofit
OUR CLIMATE COMMON
OUR CLIMATE COMMON (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,374 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Our Climate Common does
Mission
We conduct applied environmental research that our partners can use to make a more sustainable world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Developed a model for carbon content and timber value of late-successional and old-growth LSOG forest in Maine to possibly be used by the forest carbon offset market.
$66,978 spentof which $85,000 as grants59% of program spendingConducted statistical analyses to differentiate between late-successional and true old-growth forest.
$27,811 spentof which $30,000 as grants25% of program spendingCreated a late-successional old-growth forest map using LiDAR for New Brunswick.
$18,131 spentof which $32,337 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,920.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $99k to $158k (+59%).
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.
100% of OUR CLIMATE COMMON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Hagan
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $73k → $90k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 OUR CLIMATE COMMON’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
OUR CLIMATE COMMON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 OUR CLIMATE COMMON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 55% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
OUR CLIMATE COMMON draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
OUR CLIMATE COMMON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OUR CLIMATE COMMON
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR CLIMATE COMMON: 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 OUR CLIMATE COMMON?
- OUR CLIMATE COMMON (Maine) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,374 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR CLIMATE COMMON have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $247,374 in grants to OUR CLIMATE COMMON, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR CLIMATE COMMON?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $49,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR CLIMATE COMMON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9 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