Environmentalism Through Inspiration & Non Violent Action
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
TO PRODUCE, PROMOTE, AND ASSIST CHARITABLE ACTIVITES THAT ENCOURAGE WORLD PEACE, HELP UNDERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN), PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION, ADVOCATE CULTURAL PRESERVATION THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ACTIVITIES OF EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, OR ARTISTIC NATURE.
- Income
- $1.1 million
- Spending
- $544,789
- Spent on programs
- 93%
- Reserves
- 48.9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 92%
- Employees
- 2
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 90 out of 100. Higher than 72% of charities in its peer group (environment, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
35 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 48.9 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 50% of income.
Income trend
5 of 15Income fell 22% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1593% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Fair: 66 out of 100. Higher than 12% of charities in its peer group (environment, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
18 of 253 of 3 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
0 of 10Did not give the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Independent check of accounts
0 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (20)
- $127,944 spent. CODEPINK: A Local Peace Economy cultivates the local peace economy in our communities thru anti-war organizing.
- $99,689 spent. The Spiritual-Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA) takes a medicinal approach to the current climate, nature and relational emergency by bringing together artists, healers and knowledge-keepers of relationship to learn how to hospice the modern ways of knowing, being and relating that are harming life as we know it, and how we heal our relation with life-force to deepen our capacities for healthy and just-relating.
- $84,369 spent. Soil and Shadow helps individuals and organizations, particularly in the social impact and environmental sectors, build resilience while addressing issues of diversity, equity, and exclusion.
- $61,486 spent. Scientist Rebellion, Turtle Island is a group of scientists and academics who believe we should expose the reality and severity of the climate and ecological emergency by engaging in non-violent civil disobedience.
- $39,591 spent. Sunrise Philly is a movement to hold nonviolent actions to win investments in poor black and brown communities under the name of the Green New Deal in efforts to open recreation centers and libraries and assert community control over land.
- $33,187 spent. Produce, promote and assist charitable activities that promote peace and social justice.
- $28,153 spent. The California Poor Peoples Campaign activities included education, organizing, religious, arts & cultural events, nonviolent moral direct action, and relationship building across issues and geography.
- $25,967 spent. ACERE is a coalition of organizations and individuals that believe that sanctions and economic blockades are not the right answers to resolve conflicts or ideological differences between countries.
- $5,633 spent. Through our art, music and short film collaboration entitled Requiem for Mary Turner; Lest We Forget, we seek to illuminate the dark chapter of Americas history of lynching, specifically of the 136 documented lynchings of African American women.
- $1,677 spent. Los Angeles Music and Arts Program. Provide musical instruments for band program at Horace Mann middle school in South Los Angeles.
- $404 spent. I AM PV (Instituto de Artes Musicales Puerto Vallarta) is a non-profit, music education institute dedicated to enriching the lives of all of those in the Banderas Bay Area and Mexico. The benefits of music education have been well studied and documented, in giving young people the tools to succeed in not only musical endeavors, but scholastic and societal achievements as well.
- $4 spent. Women Bridging Worlds assembles and connects women who are dedicated innovators, creatives and community organizers with systemic approaches to transforming elements of our society across diverse sectors and disciplines.
- BestFits mission is to close the gap in college graduation rates by providing every college student with a holistic support system. First-generation, underrepresented minority, and low-income students have lower graduation rates not because they lack the ability, but because they face systemic barriers in accessing the support of a college-going network.
- Dzil Yijiin Food Sovereignty Project works to restore the traditional food systems and watersheds on Dzil Yijiin (Black Mesa)region and across the Navajo Nation. We engage local community members, young adults, elders and leaders to seek ways to bring Dine Lifeways into community development strategies. The project also provides employment opportunities, innovate land-based technologies around rainwater harvesting/ watershed restoration, leadership development, political education and sharing of traditional ecological knowledge.
- The Native Momentum Podcast was created to strengthen Indigenous leadership in the world, to transmit vital information to a diverse, national and even international audience, to document the wisdom of The People.
- TechActivist.Org is building a pipeline of techies to support social movements and partner with organizations creating tech tools for liberation. We do this by providing technical training and political education to working class youth and activists.
- Education Support: Provide Educational Scholarships and fellowships.
- Nihikeya Food Sovereignty Project works to restore the traditional food systems and watersheds on Dzil Yijiin (Black Mesa) region and across the Navajo Nation. We engage local community members, young adults, elders and leaders to seek ways to bring Dine Lifeways into community development strategies. The project also provides employment opportunities, innovate land-based technologies around rainwater harvesting/ watershed restoration, leadership development, political education and sharing of traditional ecological knowledge.
- Unfreeze Afghanistan is a coalition of US and Afghan women working to help unfreeze Afghan funds held overseas in US and European banks, the World Bank Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund and the International Monetary Fund in order to ease the plight of the millions of Afghans who are facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world in light of extreme poverty and the country's collapsing economy. We will do this educating the public about the humanitarian crisis to create more pressure for global leaders to act.
- Nihizh, Our Voices: An Indigenous Solutions Podcast is dedicated to providing listeners with recorded conversations on a variety of topics that center Indigenous voices across Turtle Island, with host Lyla June Johnston.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 1998.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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