Climate Change Leadership Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270114585
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5059883364
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $546,344
- Expenses
- $204,424
- Assets
- $537,363
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MADDY MAHONY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIN DOERWALD (DIRECTOR)
- NAOMI HIRSCH (VICE PRESIDE)
- ROBB HIRSCH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To compel the citizenry of this country to take responsibility for our massive role in human-induced global warming by asserting bold leadership and providing seminal solutions. The organization: (1) utilizes the world wide web as a means of educating citizens about the critical problem of human induced global warming, why and how the united states must be a leader in providing solutions, and what people can do to help: (2) gives grants and financial awards to individuals and organizations for the purpose of encouraging us stewardship and responsibility on climate change; and (3) develops, plans, and implements direct action workshops, climate stewardship educational seminars, cooperative legal challenges, and advocacy movements to encourage federal, state, and local governments and us businesses to take responsibility and demonstrate climate change leadership
What it reported doing in 2025
Created a site on the world wide web as a means of educating citizens about the critical problem of human-induced global warming, why and how the united states (us) must be a leader in providing solutions, and what people can do to help. Several awards to invididuals and organizations totaling 18,962.85 were made for their efforts in promoting our goals. Approximately 2500 people benefited from ccli services
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.3%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $273,172 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.6%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.63; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.3% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $193K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.