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TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT

TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,512 to it, the largest being PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ($140,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$307k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$335k
Net assets
$329k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment does

Mission

Community awareness and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. PUBLIC EDUCATION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Tri-Valley CAREs researched, published, and disseminated analyses of U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies, including those undertaken at Livermore Lab. The group provided written materials in English and Spanish and expert speakers on nuclear policy, "modernization" costs, plutonium pit production, Livermore Lab's warhead programs, and global disarmament opportunities including the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The group hosted public meetings and events, including an annual Hiroshima commemoration.

    $167,365 spent
    57% of program spending
  2. PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Tri-Valley CAREs researched, published, and disseminated analyses of Livermore Lab's hazardous and radioactive wastes, ongoing cleanup programs, and public health impacts related to nuclear weapons activities. The group provided written materials in English and Spanish and expert speakers on the contaminants on-site and emanating from the Livermore Lab Main Site and its Site 300 high explosives testing range. The group hosted community meetings and other events to expand public understanding of environmental compliance at Livermore Lab.

    $128,314 spent
    43% of program spending
  3. SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKERS MADE ILL BY ON-THE-JOB EXPOSURES. Tri-Valley CAREs initiated programmatic research, disseminated materials and conducted outreach to employees at Livermore Lab and other Department of Energy sites regarding the Energy Employees Compensation Program Act and related worker compensation laws. The group convened meetings of workers, and their families, who believed their illness(es) had been caused by on-the-job exposures to toxic and/or radioactive materials. Follow up assistance to workers accessing government entities and filing forms was also made available.

    $130 spent$1,500 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $295,809.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($183k) Expenses 100 ($147k) Net assets 100 ($408k)2022 Revenue 73 ($133k) Expenses 98 ($144k) Net assets 97 ($397k)2023 Revenue 85 ($156k) Expenses 115 ($168k) Net assets 94 ($385k)2024 Revenue 113 ($206k) Expenses 140 ($204k) Net assets 95 ($387k)2025 Revenue 168 ($307k) Expenses 249 ($365k) Net assets 81 ($329k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (168)Expenses (249)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

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 $387k to $331k (−15%).

$408k
$397k
$385k
$387k
$331k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 0% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$12k
’23
$2k
’24
−$58k
’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.

Chief executive

Scott Yundt

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed1313
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $76.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT’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

TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

63% 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 TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT.

42%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 64% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 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

66% of TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
CA

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

’19
’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT is better cushioned than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT?
TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,512 to it, the largest being PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ($140,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $334,512 in grants to TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT?
PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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