Earthteam

What it reported doing in 2025

Clean cities - zerolitter program this program includes yearlong internships at 6 public high schools. It inspires students to expand their thinking about trash, landfills, and the ideas behind a "disposable culture". They examine their capacity to affect change in reducing their campuses' waste streams and their impact on healthy watersheds. Students promote recycling at home, investigate their waste-making patterns in school, and general littering behaviors in public spaces. They use computer tablets and a special mapping application [zerolitter.org](http://zerolitter.org). In 2025-26 we conducted multiple litter pickups in 6 high schools in 2 counties, alameda and contra costa, working with 2,500 students. Students have removed and classified nearly 250,000 pieces of litter. The program employed 134 interns. They also developed a new ovta technology to help 4 cities meet their zero waste goals, generating reportable data to epaclean water - sustainable watersheds action teams this program includes year-long after-school internships at 8 public high schools. Students engage in a variety of hands-on restoration activities, from working with local professional site partners to designing their restoration projects on campus. These internships offer stewardship and leadership opportunities for teens, featuring watershed education and restoration and marine debris education and reduction. In 2025-26, 132 participating teens met weekly after school for 32 weeks to learn about their local watershed and work out in the field once a month. They also conducted public presentations at several city councils. They restored creek side habitats at marsh creek, pinole creek, and san lorenzo creek. Clean air - something is in the air (sita)the sita program helps students learn about issues related to climate change and air pollution and take action to better their environments. Projects include the transportation action project. In 2025-26, 132 interns working in groups as youth for clean air engaged the community and their peers to mitigate to study the imp-acts of resuspended tire wear particles in human health and in wildlife deaths (salmon) and the health impacts of air pollution; they calculated the carbon footprint for several campuses and recommended measures to reduce emissions caused by vehicles, including alternative transportation to/from schools, reduction in single-sue plastics and quantified the impact that plastic production has in the emission og global warming gases (ghg), as well as impacts from stationary sources such as oil refineries, school building's generators, auto-body shops, and others.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
• Fundraising efficiency: $455.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • 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: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -51.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings