Anthropocene Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815166043
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7735958911
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,132,679
- Expenses
- $2,403,254
- Assets
- $2,647,643
- Liabilities
- $46,731
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARIF ULLAH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STARTING JUNE 1, 2025)
- HARRIET FESTING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TIL JUNE 1, 2025)
Highest reported compensation
- HARRIET FESTING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TIL JUNE 1, 2025): $137,398 total reported compensation
- ARIF ULLAH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STARTING JUNE 1, 2025): $86,442 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Anthropocene alliance supports frontline communities impacted by pollution, flooding, fire, excessive heat, and the cumulative impacts of climate change. We do this by providing organizing, capacity-building, policy, research, grant writing, and nationally coordinated advocacy support, as well as opportunities for peer-to-peer learning. We also share best practices for mitigating environmental harms with residents, regulators, and elected officials, informed by the ideas and experiences of frontline communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
To assist people harmed by impacts of climate change and environmental injustice. Working on behalf of individuals and communities, whether located on the coast, supporting with coastal resilience, or inland, connecting them to service providers, government agencies, state and federal, legislators and helpful neighbors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.