Charleston Climate Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870887661
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8435662178
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,078
- Expenses
- $125,459
- Assets
- $21,554
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Belvin Olasov (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Charlton Brownell (Program Director)
- Megan Lee (ard Member)
- Jen Wright (Financial Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a grassroots organization whose primary purpose is to raise awareness about climate change, educate the public, and advocate for sound climate policy and climate action plans at the local level. We work with local municipalities to create climate action plans, we hold events to raise awareness, we publish a local magazine to provide information and stories to motivate action, and we focus on addressing environmental injustices experienced by our underserved communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Surge Magazine - We publish a local climate magazine quarterly. This involves writing the articles, and hiring local writers, poets, and artists to create content. This is distributed as an insert in the Charleston City Paper, reaching over 100k readers in the Lowcountry in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 69.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.