New York · Nonprofit
THE YEARS PROJECT INC
THE YEARS PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,184,207 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($3,360,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What The Years Project Inc does
Mission
The corporation's charitable and educational purposes are: 1) to generate a sustained emotional connection to the issue of climate change, 2) to galvanize public awareness of climate change, and 3) to promote public and private action to mitigate climate change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the years project continued to take action within our stated mandate to move people and businesses to take decisive action on climate change. Our climate action influencer platform, the network, reached more than 375 participants with a combined reach of more than 780 million people. We reached more than 30 million americans with field tested climate messaging as part of our participation in the climate operations room, a collaboration with five other major climate communications organizations. We achieved 34 million targeted impressions within upper management, shareholders and employees of businesses encouraging them to honor their climate commitments achieving a 20-40% attitudinal lift toward proclimate opinions. We continued our collaboration with beyond petrochemicals to create and distribute stories of communities on the frontlines of the fight against polluting industries. We produced seminal videos for columbia business school's climate knowledge initiative about efforts in the concrete, steel amid construction industries to reduce their carbon footprints.
$1,831,169 spent$61,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,831,169.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $6.6M (+208%).
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: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE YEARS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $420k → $3.6M.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 YEARS PROJECT INC’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 YEARS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 YEARS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 25% · 2021 40% · 2022 57% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of THE YEARS PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
THE YEARS PROJECT INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $628k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE YEARS PROJECT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE YEARS PROJECT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE YEARS PROJECT 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 THE YEARS PROJECT INC?
- THE YEARS PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,184,207 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($3,360,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE YEARS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $12,184,207 in grants to THE YEARS PROJECT INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE YEARS PROJECT INC?
- SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE YEARS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 25 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