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Sierra Club Foundation

EIN 94-6069890Environment California Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

The Foundation for a Healthy Planet

The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. We partner with individual and institutional donors to align financial resources with strategic outcomes, provide flexible funding for innovation, build capacity in the environmental movement, and create partnerships with a broad spectrum of allied organizations around shared values and goals. As the fiscal sponsor of the charitable programs of the Sierra Club, we provide resources to it and other nonprofit organizations to support scientific, educational, literary, organizing, advocacy, and legal programs that further our goals.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

95.21Overall score
out of 100

93.94Financial score
out of 100

97.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$71,524,157

Total expenses · USD$72,890,348

Program expenses

$62,102,576.50 recorded amount

85.2%

Fundraising expenses

$9,329,964.54 recorded amount

12.8%

Administrative expenses

$1,384,916.61 recorded amount

1.9%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Dan Chu
Recorded compensation: $214,039.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.29%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Sierra Club Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	97.0
`category` Category	Environment
`description` Mission & description	The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. We partner with individual and institutional donors to align financial resources with strategic outcomes, provide flexible funding for innovation, build capacity in the environmental movement, and create partnerships with a broad spectrum of allied organizations around shared values and goals. As the fiscal sponsor of the charitable programs of the Sierra Club, we provide resources to it and other nonprofit organizations to support scientific, educational, literary, organizing, advocacy, and legal programs that further our goals.
`ein` EIN	94-6069890
`tot_exp` Total expenses	72890348.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.019
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.11
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.128
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.852
`fscore` Financial score	93.94
`leader` Recorded leader	Dan Chu
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	214039.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0029
`motto` Tagline	The Foundation for a Healthy Planet
`name` Charity name	Sierra Club Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	71524157.0
`score` Overall score	95.21
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Environmental Protection and Conservation
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	62102576.496
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	9329964.544
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	1384916.612

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 94-6069890
Source category: Environment
Source subcategory: Environmental Protection and Conservation
Recorded location: California (CA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.