California · Nonprofit
Turning Green
Turning Green (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,129,413 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($258,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $726k
What Turning Green does
Mission
To educate and inpspire young adults to promote environmentally conscious & socially responsible choices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conscious kitchen: conscious kitchen addresses food equity, education, and access by shifting the paradigm around school food service, while cultivating a local, ecological food system, and building nutrition literacy into meals. Ck created the first organic school district in the country shortly after launching in 2013, which thrives to this day. In the face of the coronavirus crisis, our conscious kitchens operated as hubs for community resiliency with the teams, equipment, supply chains and structure to provide healthy meals for children and families facing unprecedented challenges, while directly supporting staff, organic farmers, food purveyors, small businesses and more.
$773,083 spentof which $40,000 as grants79% of program spendingTurning Green informs, inspires and mobilizes emerging leaders focused on climate justice,environmental sustainability and public health. Driven by student leaders with purpose and passion, our non-profit is building a global movement to cultivate a healthy, just, resilient future through education, advocacy and climate action, including project green challenge, an annual month-long competition that engages thousands of students across the globe through simple, relevant, high-impact sustainability-themed challenges, covering topics from personal health to food, product labeling, fair trade, waste, energy and more. The challenge culminates with the 4-day pgc finals summit in the sf bay area for 14 outstanding students who go on to lead climate action projects. Impact: 50,000 students have participated on 4,700 campuses in 50 states and 85 countries, 200m digitally
$209,182 spentof which $50 as grants21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $982,265.
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 2019 to 2020, from $213k to $655k (+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: 2017 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 18% · 2023 35% · 2024 35% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Turning Green’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Judi Shils
Executive director
Board chair
Heidi Locke Simon
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $268k.
16 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Turning Green’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
Turning Green has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
82% 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 Turning Green.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 36% · 2019 58% · 2020 29% · 2021 41% · 2022 61% · 2023 37% — 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
30% of Turning Green's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
63% of Turning Green's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $796k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Turning Green runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Turning Green receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $406k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$406k
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 Turning Green
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Turning Green: 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 Turning Green?
- Turning Green (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,129,413 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($258,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Turning Green have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,129,413 in grants to Turning Green, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Turning Green?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Turning Green 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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