Climate Jobs New York
Legal name: Climate Jobs Ny Education Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824972836
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3472012049
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $276,667
- Expenses
- $252,786
- Assets
- $428,404
- Liabilities
- $89,822
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL FISHMAN (DIRECTOR): $240,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate, organize, and advocate for a clean energy future at the scale that climate science demands – one that creates and protects good union jobs, centers working people, and builds stronger, more resilient communities across New York State.
What it reported doing in 2024
Climate jobs New York education fund, inc will carry out its mission through public education focused on clean energy, climate resiliency, and union high-road/green jobs. The organiztion intends to offer and host intructional presentations, discussion groups, and other events to provide forums to discuss these issues and promote a clean energy future. All funds will be used exclusively for charitable purposes in accordance with the organization's mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.6%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 54.2%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: $81.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 49.6% of revenue deployed · 54.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $240K · 3 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.