California · Nonprofit
THE EARTH GENOME
THE EARTH GENOME (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,572,429 to it, the largest being CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ($2,463,847). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Earth Genome does
Mission
We exist to ensure the world's key decision makers consistently and routinely take into account the full value of nature and the consequences of their activities on natural systems, thereby averting economic and social disruptions due to the mismanagement of natural capital and environmental risk. We will deliver this by creating a platform to enable easy-to-use, inexpensive, scientifically credible, continuously updated global information on natural resources, coupled with the creation of powerful and relevant decision-support tools. The platform and tools will exponentially lower the cost and time to analyze data and translate it into insights that decision makers can use.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The build program focuses on making earth data effective and actionable on the most pressing climate and conservation issues of our times, through visualization and tool development. Recent work has included climate trace and food twin, as well as earth index. Earth index is our search tool for the environment, harnessing satellite imagery and machine learning to extract an area's "genetic signature", enabling researchers and investigators to obtain insights in a day, instead of months. Recent work has included building global data sets of large-scale animal feeding operations, and detection of illegal activities related to deforestation in the amazon.
$3,034,209 spent$1,524,413 earned by the program85% of program spendingThe water program continued work among multiple fronts in 2024. Our work was primarily linked to three ongoing, multi-year projects. First was the continued work on grat (groundwater recharge assessment tool) that is being done with partner sustainable conservation and the ca dept of water resources. This includes grat modeling work now being done in multiple watersheds in ca. Second was our related work being done with the us army corps of engineers, as part of the network for engineering with nature. Third, is our work in co-facilitating the ca drought taskforce for the state.
$530,996 spent$608,129 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,565,205.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $6.4M (+214%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of THE EARTH GENOME’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Steve Mccormick
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500k → $2.3M.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE EARTH GENOME’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
THE EARTH GENOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
55% 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 THE EARTH GENOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 62% · 2020 83% · 2021 73% · 2022 30% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of THE EARTH GENOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
62% of THE EARTH GENOME's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
THE EARTH GENOME has grown faster than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE EARTH GENOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- Department of Commerce$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE EARTH GENOME
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Earthrise Education LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EARTH GENOME: 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 THE EARTH GENOME?
- THE EARTH GENOME (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,572,429 to it, the largest being CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ($2,463,847). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EARTH GENOME have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $11,572,429 in grants to THE EARTH GENOME, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EARTH GENOME?
- CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,463,847 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EARTH GENOME 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.
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 14 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