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Carbon180

Website:

carbon180.org/
Location:

OAKLAND, CA
Tax ID:

81-2560407
Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Budget (2019):

Revenue: $3,975,098
Expenses: $1,579,664
Assets: $3,148,881
Type:

Environmental Advocacy

Carbon180 is a left-of-center environmentalist group that advocates and lobbies for reducing carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of achieving “negative” carbon emissions. 1 2 3

Overview

Founded in 2015 and an independent organization as of 2016, Carbon180 engages in a variety of activities to advocate for carbon emission restrictions. Its policy team conducts analyses, hosts workshops, and provides education and outreach to policymakers to support increased federal funding for issues related to carbon removal to achieve negative carbon emissions. Its Leading with Soils program attempts to get farmers and ranchers across the Mountain West to adopt specific carbon-reducing agricultural practices. Carbon180 also has hosted and participated in conferences, government briefings, and workshops related to carbon reductions. 4 It creates roadmaps detailing its environmental policy recommendations to Congress. 5

Carbon 180 publishes two newsletters, a blog, and resources on carbon removal policy and science. 6 In 2020, the organization spent $10,0007 lobbying on carbon-reduction issues in agriculture and the federal government’s Superfund program, which requires clean-up of polluted sites left by legacy industries. 8 It repeated this lobbying behavior in 2021, spending $10,0009 on the same two issues. 10 The organization also received pledges of financial support from various celebrities such as Grimes, the experimental-pop musician and girlfriend of Tesla founder Elon Musk; the electronic duo Odesza; and singer Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, known as Halsey. 11

People

Noah Deich is the president and co-founder of Carbon 180. He received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. 12

Giana Amador is the policy director and co-founder Carbon 180. 13 Before that she was a research analyst for the organization and received a B.S in Environmental Economics and Policy and a B.S. in Society and the Environment from UC Berkeley. 14

References

  1. “Carbon180.” Cause IQ. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/carbon180,812560407/programs.
  2. “Carbon180.” RC Forward – Powering High-impact Giving. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://rcforward.org/charity/carbon180/.
  3. “Annual Lobbying by Carbon 180.” OpenSecrets. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2020&id=F320725.
  4. “Carbon180.” Cause IQ. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/carbon180,812560407/programs.
  5. “Carbon180 Unveils Carbon Removal Policy Roadmap for 2021 and Beyond.” GlobeNewswire News Room. Last modified May 13, 2021. https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/05/13/2228898/0/en/Carbon180-Unveils-Carbon-Removal-Policy-Roadmap-for-2021-and-Beyond.html.
  6. “Carbon180.” RC Forward – Powering High-impact Giving. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://rcforward.org/charity/carbon180/.
  7. “Annual Lobbying by Carbon 180.” OpenSecrets. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2020&id=F320725.
  8. “Issues Lobbied by Carbon 180, 2020.” OpenSecrets. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/issues?cycle=2020&id=F320725.
  9. “Annual Lobbying by Carbon 180.” OpenSecrets. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=F320725.
  10. “Issues Lobbied By Carbon 180, 2021.” OpenSecrets. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/issues?cycle=2021&id=F320725  
  11. Meyer, Robinson. “Why Celebrities Are Agog Over This Tiny Climate Think Tank.” The Atlantic. April 2, 2021. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/the-deluge-of-nft-money-is-going-to-a-tiny-think-tank-climate/618380/.
  12. “Team — Carbon180.” Carbon180. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://carbon180.org/team.
  13. “Team — Carbon180.” Carbon180. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://carbon180.org/team.
  14. “Giana Amador.” Climate One. March 25, 2016. https://www.climateone.org/people/giana-amador.
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Nonprofit Information

  • Accounting Period: December - November
  • Tax Exemption Received: November 1, 2016

    • Available Filings

    Period Form Type Total revenue Total functional expenses Total assets (EOY) Total liabilities (EOY) Unrelated business income? Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. of current officers, directors, etc. Form 990
    2019 Dec Form 990 $3,975,098 $1,579,664 $3,148,881 $34,613 N $3,950,590 $20,000 $1,163 $243,242 PDF
    2018 Dec Form 990 $1,900,822 $1,570,501 $747,983 $29,149 N $1,860,562 $40,000 $260 $191,137 PDF
    2017 Dec Form 990 $861,705 $915,662 $450,797 $62,284 N $812,583 $47,556 $1,566 $178,608 PDF
    2016 Dec Form 990 $781,108 $338,638 $455,766 $13,296 N $780,998 $0 $110 $91,000
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