Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884226591
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Phone
2693521213
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$466,861
Expenses
$454,305
Assets
$146,582
Liabilities
$116,251

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DENISE KEELE (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNY DOEZEMA (EXECUTIVE DI): $34,846 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The kalamazoo climate crisis coalition mobilizes collective action to achieve immediate and drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and rapid adoption of renewable energy through a transition grounded in social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Kccc pursues this mission through community organizing, direct-service programming, and youth leadership development across kalamazoo county, Michigan, with a focus on systems change, coalition-building, and centering communities most affected by both the climate crisis and historic environmental injustice. Kccc serves kalamazoo county communities most impacted by environmental injustice, housing disinvestment, and climate vulnerability including the northside, eastside, edison, and west douglas neighborhoods and outlying county areas, where historic redlining, discriminatory lending, and industrial pollution have produced some of the state's highest health- disparity and pollution-exposure burdens. Nearly 40% of homeowners in

What it reported doing in 2024

Ardea youth climate coalition: the ardea youth climate coalition engages kalamazoo county teens, ages 13 18 (rising 9th12th graders, with students from neighboring counties considered on a space-available basis), through the youth climate leaders (ycl) peer education program, a 40-hour training that equips teens to advocate for a resilient future and share accurate, science-based climate information with their peers and community. No prior background in climate science is required. The ycl curriculum, delivered in a non-partisan format that presents science-based facts and encourages critical thinking, covers climate change impacts on people and ecosystems; climate justice, politics, and resilience (food, land, and water rights, local environmental justice, policy and institutional change, and indigenous and cross-cultural knowledge-sharing); and climate leadership and activism, including peer communication, personal story-sharing, and organizing strategies. Following the initial training week, ycl peer educators commit to at least two additional meetings per month throughout the school year with kccc's youth climate leadership coordinator, taking what they've learned back into their schools and communities as peer educators, presenters, mentors, and organizers of student-led climate initiatives. Participants who attend at least 80% of scheduled meetings receive a modest year-end stipend recognizing their time investment. Beyond climate content, the program builds public speaking, empathy, and time-management skills, and connects participants with city, county, state, and national organizations. Program graduated 8 youth.

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 92% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $353K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.