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Environment

Global Energy Monitor

COVINA, CA

Total revenue

$9.6M

Total expenses

$9.8M

Net assets

$4.9M

Grants received

$15.4M

31 grants

EIN

822723327

Tax year

2024

Mission

Global Energy Monitor develops and analyzes data on energy infrastructure, resources, and uses. We provide open access to information that is essential to building a sustainable energy future.

Programs

4 programs

Oil & Gas: Global Energy Monitor's oil and gas program includes projects tracking oil and gas extraction, infrastructure, power plants, and regional gas production, as well as a weekly newsletter. Each tracker includes interactive maps, summary tables, and a downloadable data set with links to footnoted wiki pages on each facility. Some trackers also publish reports about notable trends. These tools are made publicly available under an open source license and are commonly used by nonprofit groups, universities, international agencies, media organizations, and others.

Expenses: $2.1M

Coal: Global Energy Monitor's coal program includes projects tracking coal plants, mines, terminals, and finance, as well as a weekly newsletter. Each tracker includes interactive maps, summary tables, and a downloadable data set with links to footnoted wiki pages on each facility. Some trackers also publish reports about notable trends. These tools are made publicly available under an open source license and are commonly used by nonprofit groups, universities, international agencies, media organizations, and others.

Expenses: $1.7M

Heavy Industry: Global Energy Monitors heavy industry program includes projects tracking iron and steel plants, iron mining, and cement and concrete plants. Each tracker includes interactive maps, summary tables, and a downloadable data set with links to footnoted wiki pages on each facility. Some trackers also publish reports about notable trends. These tools are made publicly available under an open source license and are commonly used by nonprofit groups, universities, international agencies, media organizations, and others.

Expenses: $1.2M

Other programs: Other projects at GEM include cross-cutting work such as: 1) Our Energy Transition Tracker, which identifies zones with potential for scaling up renewable energy and provides centralized data, maps, and information about factors that facilitate or obstruct the transition, to help stakeholders drive real change in the energy transition. 2) Our Global Integrated Power Tracker, which combines data from all power generation trackers for improved visualization, understanding, and ease of use. 3) Our Global Energy Ownership Tracker, which provides ownership data for facilitates in nine of our other trackers. 4) Our Methane Emitters Tracker, which provides estimates of fossil fuel emissions at oil and gas and coal extraction sites, natural gas transmission pipelines, proposed projects and reserves, and attribution of remotely-sensed methane plumes. And 5) Our Private Equity Tracker, which is part of a multi-organization initiative known as the Private Equity Climate Risks (PECR) project.

Expenses: $1.2M

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$9.4M
Program service revenue$157K
Investment income$58K
Other revenue$2K
Total revenue$9.6M

Expenses

Grants paid$100K
Salaries & benefits$8.8M
Fundraising$332K
Other expenses$851K
Total expenses$9.8M
Total assets$5.8M
Net assets$4.9M

People

14 listed

NameRoleCompensation

Theodore Nace

Executive Dir.

Board

$126K

24 hrs/wk

Joshua Kruskal

Dir. Fin. & Ops

Board

$115K

40 hrs/wk

Daniel Newman

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Sheldon Rampton

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Jenny Chu

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Ashish Fernandes

Secretary

Board

2 hrs/wk

Paula Baker

Treasurer

Board

1 hrs/wk

Han Chen

Director

Board

1 hrs/wk

Maisie Bird

Chief Data Officer

Staff

$152K

40 hrs/wk

Ryan Driskell Tate

Associate Director

Staff

$150K

40 hrs/wk

Louisa Plotnick

Associate Director

Staff

$139K

40 hrs/wk

Aiqun Yu

Research Analyst

Staff

$128K

40 hrs/wk

Caitlin Swalec

Program Director

Staff

$126K

40 hrs/wk

Flora Champenois

Program Director

Staff

$118K

40 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 31 of 31

FromAmountPurposeYear
$3.0M
TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION TO RENEWABLES ($2,600,000); TO PROTECT THE CLIMATE, REDUCE POLLUTION, AND STRENGTHEN ECONOMIES ($350,000)
2024
$800K
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
2024
$500K
GENERAL SUPPORT AND CORE SUPPORT FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
2024
$250K
PROJECT SUPPORT
2024
$150K
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND ANALYSIS TO ADVANCE CLEAN, AFFORDABLE ENERGY THAT PROTECTS PUBLIC HEALTH.
2024
$1.4M
PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$625K
DEV. TRACE PROJECT
2023
$536K
To support research and analysis about transitioning from coal to clean energy
2023
$500K
GENERAL SUPPORT AND CORE SUPPORT FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
2023
$150K
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND ANALYSIS TO ADVANCE CLEAN, AFFORDABLE ENERGY THAT PROTECTS PUBLIC HEALTH.
2023
$30K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$1.6M
PROJECT SUPPORT
2022
$1.5M
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
2022
$515K
GENERAL SUPPORT AND PROJECT SUPPORT FOR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
2022
$327K
DEVELOPING METHODOLOGY AS WELL AS UPDATING AND ENHANCING CURRENT DATA FOR "GEM TRACKERS" AS PART OF THE CLIMATE TRACE PROJECT.
2022
$250K
DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL REGISTRY OF FOSSIL FUELS
2022
$180K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$150K
PRIVATE EQUITY FOSSIL ASSET RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT
2022
$150K
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND ANALYSIS TO ADVANCE CLEAN, AFFORDABLE ENERGY THAT PROTECTS PUBLIC HEALTH.
2022
$100K
TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH ABOUT EXPANSION OF US ENERGY SYSTEMS
2022
$138K
PRIVATE EQUITY FOSSIL ASSET RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT
2021
$76K
Clean Energy and Just Transition
2021
$145K
PROJECT SUPPORT
2020
$120K
For the Latin America Resource Information Hub, a multi lingual online platform for tracking oil, gas, coal and other extraction projects in Latin America in order to inform efforts to transition on to environmentally friendly energy systems
2020
$30K
ENVIRONMENTAL
2020
$75K
Clean Energy and Just Transition
2019
$9K
General support
2019
$150K
General support
2017

Funded by

$15.4M from 14 funders · 31 grants · 2017–2024

Climateworks Foundation

$6.1M · 4 grants · 2020–2024

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

$2.0M · 3 grants · 2021–2023

The Ford Foundation

$1.8M · 5 grants · 2020–2024

Windward Fund

$1.5M · 1 grant · 2022

Climate Imperative Foundation

$1.4M · 3 grants · 2022–2024

Watttime Corporation

$952K · 2 grants · 2022–2023

United States Energy Foundation

$450K · 3 grants · 2022–2024

Institute For Energy Economics And

$288K · 2 grants · 2021–2022

Details

EIN822723327
NTEE codeC30
Subsection03
Ruling date2018-02
Formed2017
Employees86
Volunteers6
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