Climate Action Families
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465636361
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067692286
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,150
- Expenses
- $87,850
- Assets
- $50,181
- Liabilities
- $5,347
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- DONGMEI CHEN (TREASURER)
- GRACE STAHRE (CHAIR)
- SUE LENANDER (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping children and families to be resilient climate advocates through training, civic engagement, outdoor opportunities and community building.
What it reported doing in 2024
INTRO TO CLIMATE JUSTICE TRAINING PROGRAM - Our classic FREE, youth-led day-long "Intro to Climate Justice Training" empowered participants with foundational knowledge of climate science and justice principles, and all of the diverse ways we can affect change together - from reforming institutions, to organizing, building solutions, resisting harmful activities, transforming ourselves and our society, and healing our communities and planet. We discussed emotions and coping skills, made art for events, learned chants and songs, spent time outdoors, and the youth made lots of friends. The program reached 44 new individuals through two training sessions held at the UW School of Social Work and trained 15 returning youth as peer facilitators, with 33% of participants from historically marginalized communities. Our program collected rich feedback from the youth which fed into programs for the next year. Courses also included a 90 minute parent program on youth mental health and the climate crisis attended by 30 parents.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
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: 4.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.