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PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION

PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,950 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$43k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$664k
Net assets
$0
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 96%
01What it does

What Pivot Point a Nonprofit Corporation does

Mission

Pivot point is a strategy and convening nonprofit working at the intersection of climate change, food security, energy access, and land rights, w/a focus on sustainable rural development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Biomass - pivot point worked to ensure the sustainability of biomass utilization in power and heating sectors.

    $77,209 spent
    54% of program spending
  2. Climate and land use - pivot point worked to ensure that natural climate solutions such as forest restoration are given due consideration in international climate negotiations, and in publications of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Pivot point coordinated the international network "climate land ambition and rights assiance".

    $48,590 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    34% of program spending
  3. Landgap project - a collaborative effort with (inter alia) university of melbourne and copenhagen university, to quantify the uses of land for mitigation purposes in the nationally determined contributions submitted to the un climate convention (unfccc).

    $16,069 spent
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,868.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($472k) Expenses 100 ($340k) Net assets 100 ($292k)2020 Revenue 66 ($311k) Expenses 120 ($409k) Net assets 22 ($66k)2021 Revenue 103 ($486k) Expenses 96 ($325k) Net assets 167 ($487k)2022 Revenue 85 ($402k) Expenses 109 ($372k) Net assets 147 ($430k)2023 Revenue 46 ($219k) Expenses 89 ($303k) Net assets 92 ($269k)2024 Revenue 29 ($138k) Expenses 57 ($193k) Net assets 44 ($128k)2025 Revenue 9 ($43k) Expenses 50 ($171k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (9)Expenses (50)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $430k to $270k (−37%).

$371k
$413k
$487k
$430k
$270k
$128k
$0
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$131k
’19
−$98k
’20
$161k
’21
$30k
’22
−$84k
’23
−$55k
’24
−$128k
’25
11
months of
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.

Board chair

Nathanael Munden

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20192020202120222023
Listed24444
Joined··+1+1+0
No longer listed··110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $300k → $50k.

From the IRS filings of PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION’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

PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 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

PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION

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In Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,950 to it, the largest being DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $663,950 in grants to PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PIVOT POINT A NONPROFIT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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