Alliance for Climate Resistant California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833906619
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Encino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9168624245
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,230
- Expenses
- $36,153
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Schnider (CEO)
People named in this filing
- David Schnider (CEO)
- Matthew Cate (Executive Dir.)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Alliance for Climate Resistant California is a coalition of environmentalists, renewable energy companies, labor and academics with the shared goal of ensuring California continues to lead in the fight against climate change and keeps its commitment to achieve a clean energy future.
What it reported doing in 2021
Alliance for Climate Resistant California (ACRC) was established as a coalition of environmentalists, renewable energy companies, labor and academics with the shared goal of ensuring California continues to lead in the fight against climate change and keep its commitment to achieving a clean energy future. Following the addition of Matt Cate as executive director, ACRC built and leveraged partnerships with stakeholders across the state through the formation of an advisory board of key influencers in Californias labor, renewable energy and the environmental communities. ACRC added to its coalition by recruiting 17 member organizations from the California small business, environmental justice and energy communities. ACRC also established a robust digital presence including a website, Twitter account and Facebook page. The website serves as a repository for information related to the states clean energy goals and commitments. ACRCs social media pages keep supports up-to-date with organic content related to Californias climate commitments and the need to protect legacy renewable energy contracts. Through its digital presence, ACRC amassed more than 500 grassroots supporters who receive regular updates from the organization and have supported ACRCs efforts by signing petitions and sending letters to state leaders. ACRCs digital advocacy was complemented by numerous op-eds authored by Executive Director Matt Cate and ACRC Advisory Board members that were placed in key capitol publications, including CalMatters, the Sacramento Bee, Mercury News and Capitol Weekly. Through these efforts, ACRC highlighted the importance of preserving Californias existing renewable energy power purchase agreements during PG&Es bankruptcy in order to achieve the states climate goals and ensure continued investment in a clean energy future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -183.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.