One Earth Philanthropy

What it reported doing in 2025

Guided by a comprehensive Solutions Framework, a roadmap of 75+ proven pathways across Energy Transition, Nature Conservation, and Regenerative Agriculture, we turn knowledge into impact. By connecting local solutions to global systems, we support coordinated, place-based action through a suite of tools, a robust grantmaking strategy, and storytelling platforms that inform, guide, and inspire change. Our core insight is that solving the climate crisis requires shifting both culture and capital. Narratives shape priorities, and priorities shape where resources flow. To scale the solutions our planet needs, we must change both the story people tell about climate action and the systems that determine where investment goes. To do this, One Earth has built a set of interconnected tools that answer three foundational questions: what to invest in, where it matters most, and how capital needs to shift to support them. WHAT TO INVEST IN: The One Earth Solutions Framework identifies more than 75 science-based pathways across Energy Transition, Nature Conservation and Regenerative Agriculture that are required to stabilize the climate and protect biodiversity. WHERE IT MATTERS MOST: The Global Safety Net and Bioregions Framework identify priority places landscapes and seascapes where conservation and restoration efforts can deliver the greatest ecological impact. HOW CAPITAL MUST SHIFT: Through the Minding the Gaps report and the Solutions Finance Tracker, One Earth analyzes how climate finance is currently allocated across solutions and highlights where critical funding gaps remain. Together, these tools translate complex science into clear priorities for philanthropy, investment, and policy, and inform the One Earth Fund, which mobilizes catalytic philanthropic capital toward the most underfunded, high-impact solutions and geographies identified through our research and network. At the same time, One Earth's storytelling platforms, including the Solutions Hub and global media partnerships, help bring these solutions and the people leading them to life. By making climate solutions tangible, relatable, and inspiring, we help shift cultural understanding toward a vibrant future that is possible. By connecting science, story, and capital, One Earth helps align the climate movement around the solutions that can deliver on the ground impact and systems-level change.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 55.3%; rating input score 55
• Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
• Fundraising efficiency: $34.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 37.6%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings