Public Charity

THE EARTH GENOME

THE EARTH GENOME is a Public Charity headquartered in LOS ALTOS, CA. Financial data from the 2024 filing: $2.6M revenue, $4.2M expenses, $2.3M total assets. 11 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $3.9M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 472935807 LOS ALTOS, CA Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis NTEE: C05 Latest filing: 2024

Organization Summary

Grant Records 11

Filing History 2020–2024

Funding Total $3.9M

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Financial Snapshot · 2024

Total Revenue $2.6M

Total Expenses $4.2M

Total Assets $2.3M

Total Revenue$2.6M

Total Expenses$4.2M

Total Assets$2.3M

Grant Records11

Funding Total$3.9M

Filing Years2020–2024

Mission

WE EXIST TO ENSURE THE WORLD'S KEY DECISION MAKERS CONSISTENTLY AND ROUTINELY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FULL VALUE OF NATURE AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIVITIES ON NATURAL SYSTEMS, THEREBY AVERTING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DISRUPTIONS DUE TO THE MISMANAGEMENT OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK. WE WILL DELIVER THIS BY CREATING A PLATFORM TO ENABLE EASY-TO-USE, INEXPENSIVE, SCIENTIFICALLY CREDIBLE, CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED GLOBAL INFORMATION ON NATURAL RESOURCES, COUPLED WITH THE CREATION OF POWERFUL AND RELEVANT DECISION-SUPPORT TOOLS. THE PLATFORM AND TOOLS WILL EXPONENTIALLY LOWER THE COST AND TIME TO ANALYZE DATA AND TRANSLATE IT INTO INSIGHTS THAT DECISION MAKERS CAN USE.

Where $100 goes at The Earth Genome

How The Earth Genome divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.

$84 Programs the work itself

$14 Management running the organization

$2 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $84 for programs

$71

The build program focuses on making earth data effective and actionable on the most pressing climate and conservation issues of our times, through visualization and tool development

85% of program spending

$13

The water program continued work among multiple fronts in 2024

15% of program spending

Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Sample Grants Received

MOZILLA FOUNDATION

2023

PROJECT SUPPORT TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING AND ETHICS.

$50,000

WATTTIME CORPORATION

2022

BUILDING THE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE AND WEBSITE TO HOST AN OPEN, PUBLIC DATABASE OF ALL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WORLDWIDE AS PART OF THE CLIMATE TRACE PROJECT.

$1,014,839

CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

2022

PROJECT SUPPORT

$27,261

WATTTIME CORPORATION

2021

BUILDING THE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE AND WEBSITE TO HOST AN OPEN, PUBLIC DATABASE OF ALL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WORLDWIDE AS PART OF THE CLIMATE TRACE PROJECT.

$389,913

Dalberg Catalyst

2021

sharing strategies

$30,000

Showing up to 5 of 11 total records — full history available with membership.

Officers & Directors

EMPLOYEE Ben Strong

EMPLOYEE Cameron Kruse

BOARD MEMBER Craig Mccaw

EMPLOYEE Dan Siegel

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Glen Low

PRESIDENT Keith Arnold

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Environment & Conservation

$3,679,499 7 grants

General Support

$77,261 2 grants

Unspecified

$130,000 2 grants

Financial Trends

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets
2024	$2.6M	$4.2M	$2.3M
2023	$2.8M	$4.9M	$3.2M
2022	$4.9M	$5.9M	$5.6M
2021	$8.2M	$3.8M	$6.4M
2020	$2.9M	$2.6M	$2.0M

Between 2020 and 2024, reported annual revenue declined from $2.9M to $2.6M (-11%), with total assets most recently reported at $2.3M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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