Princeton Climate Institute Attn Justin Sheffield Pres
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850856333
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2020
- Location
- Teaneck, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9175331234
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering and Technology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,180
- Expenses
- $5,204
- Assets
- $39,608
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUSTIN SHEFFIELD (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- CATHERINE MCVAY HUGHES (Secretary)
- JUSTIN SHEFFIELD (President & CEO)
- ANTONIO BUSALACCHI (Chairman)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's activities consist of developing systems and datasets to help governments and their agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the research community and the general public to reduce the risk of climate and hydrological hazards (e.g. Droughts and flods), to develop adaptation strategies to cope with climate variability and change, and to sustainably use water resources. These activities are aimed foremost at least developed countries who are generally exposed to a range of climate and hydrological hazards, yet have the lowest capacity to respond or even adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change. They are also aimed at the scientific community in the least developed countires and globally to help develop collaborative research to improve the science behind these systems and datasets.
What it reported doing in 2025
Unesco rosa project on development of flood and drought monitoring systems for mozambique, zimbabwe and namibia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.4%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 72.9%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.61; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.4% of revenue deployed · 49.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.