North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network (NC-WARN)

The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network is a left-of-center environmentalist group that opposes the use of hydraulic fracturing to collect natural gas. It has targeted Duke Energy with anti-coal-power demonstrations in the past. The organization signed on as a sponsor of the Green New Deal and has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. 1

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Environmental Policy
Website: www.ncwarn.org
Location: Durham, NC View on map
Tax ID: 56-1734433
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $2,200,216 Revenue: $1,785,485 Expenses: $2,163,654

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    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    NC WARN was one of more than 600 co-signing organizations on a January 2019 open letter to Congress titled “Legislation to Address the Urgent Threat of Climate Change.” The signatories declared their support for new laws to bring about “100 percent decarbonization” of the transportation sector but denounced nuclear power as an example of “dirty energy” that should not be included in any legislation promoting the use of so-called “renewable energy.” 1

    Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 19 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. 2 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 3

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    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $2,200,216 $1,785,485 $2,163,654 View
    2024 $2,573,465 $2,419,249 $1,952,191 View
    2023 $2,068,069 $1,912,162 $1,701,472 View
    2022 $1,854,552 $2,456,614 $2,457,790 View
    2021 $1,858,102 $2,687,799 $2,351,152 View
    2020 $1,518,438 $1,665,041 $1,396,645 View

    Prior year filings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 6

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    James E WarrenEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR$147,218

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $16,285,326
    • Number of Grants: 152
    • Number of Funders: 38

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $3,000,0002024 Foundation For The CarolinasCHARITABLE GIFT
    $1,800,0002021 Foundation For The CarolinasCHARITABLE GIFT
    $1,400,0002022 Foundation For The CarolinasCHARITABLE GIFT
    $1,300,0002020 Foundation For The CarolinasCHARITABLE GIFT
    $400,0002023 Foundation For The CarolinasCHARITABLE GIFT
    $390,0002021 Windward FundENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
    $250,2002021 Working Families Organization IncGNDN STATE INVESTMENT C3
    $238,2002022 Working Families Organization IncGNDN STATE INVESTMENT C3
    $150,0002024 Windward FundENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
    $150,0002021 Laughing Gull FoundationIn order to win on climate issues, we must build–as Angela Park says–”everybody’s Movement.” That means that we need to not only scale up solutions, but we must ensure that racial, economic and gender justice are at the heart of how we imagine and strive for those solutions. We must fill our state with a new and vital, networked group of organizers from frontline groups who can organize within their communities to turn local, county and state policies toward a resilient and sustainable economy with energy democracy at its heart and BIPOC vision at the front. We need social justice groups working on housing or transportation, for example, to understand they are working for climate justice, for mainstream environmental groups to shift to a climate justice model, and for climate justice groups to work more closely together across issues while developing their internal leadership pathways. However, experienced climate justice organizers are overworked and exhausted. They need much more support. In order to accomplish this, NCCJC needs to be able to build our own internal capacity to provide capacity and coordination through paid staffing.
    $100,0002022 National Philanthropic TrustPUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
    $99,0002021 Tides FoundationHEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
    $52,5002024 Triangle Community FoundationENVIRONMENT
    $50,0002024 Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationFOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
    $50,0002023 Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationFOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
    $50,0002022 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.GENERAL
    $50,0002022 Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationFOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
    $50,0002021 NEO PhilanthropyProgram Grant
    $50,0002021 Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationFOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
    $50,0002020 Tides FoundationHEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
    $50,0002020 Z. Smith Reynolds FoundationFor general operating support
    $40,0002021 Institute for Governance and Sustainable DevelopmentSUPPORT ENERGY DEMOCRACY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    $31,5002020 Triangle Community FoundationGeneral purpose
    $30,0002023 Common Counsel FoundationPROJECT SUPPORT NC JUSTICE COALITION
    $30,0002022 Common Counsel FoundationPROJECT SUPPORT FOR NORTH CAROLINA CLIMATE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE

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    References

    1. “Group letter to Congress urging Green New Deal passage.” Earthworks. January 10, 2019. Accessed July 27, 2023. https://www.earthworks.org/publications/group-letter-to-congress-urging-green-new-deal-passage/
    2. “Nuclear explained.” U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/us-nuclear-industry.php
    3. “The Science of Sustainability.” The Nature Conservancy. October 13, 2018. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/