NonprofitsRomero Institute

Romero Institute

SANTA CRUZ, CA

Total revenue

$2.0M

Total expenses

$2.9M

Net assets

$401K

Grants received

$4.4M

85 grants

EIN

953527131

Tax year

2024

Mission

Expose systemic injustice and implement strategic solutions for global warming, economic inequality, human and indigenous rights. The organization uses impact litigation, investigation, grassroots organizing and public education to achieve sustainable goals.

Programs

3 programs

Let's green california - in 2024 the leaders of our project continued to work with labor leaders, environmentalists, and environmental justice activists to establish labor standards in the community choice energy agencies in the bay area and central california. By joining with labor to support these standards, we encouraged the building of trust and communication between the three communities. The success of these efforts persuaded a large california environmental organization to incorporate our team into their program. We facilitated that transition, knowing that the success of climate policies in california depends on labor being at the table. Our strategic work with labor in central california since 2016 will now be taken throughout the state. California continues to be a state that could create a model of equitable climate policies that can be replicated worldwide.knowing that members of low to moderate income communities need education on why electric cars and electric kitchens are more economical and healthy for children and families, we also continued our program with the monterey catholic diocese. Working with diocesan leaders and leaders in local parishes in predominantly hispanic communities, we brought in experts, kitchen equipment, and electric cars. We provided food cooked on electric stoves and rides in the electric cars. We generated gatherings after church services and educated parishioners on how to receive financial incentives for purchasing these items, and how important the health benefits were compared to natural gas stoves and gasoline cars.

Expenses: $101K

The new paradigm institute was launched in 2023 after three whistleblowers publicly testified to congress that our government has captured nonhuman spacecraft and nonhuman bodies in crash retrievals, and that navy pilots on both coasts of our country see nonhuman spacecraft every day. After opening a d.c. Office across from the senate, and hiring professional teams, our initiative began to develop policy and mobilize citizens for disclosure of the information hidden from citizens and our elected leaders for 80 years. With the passage of legislation in december, 2023, "disclosure has begun".in 2024 we continued to build our powerful website engine for education, grassroots organizing, and fundraising. Our social media campaigns and 80 podcasts appearances reached millions of viewers, our grassroots organizing efforts began building out 1000 volunteers into a nationwide organizing force to pressure our elected representatives to proceed with public disclosure hearings, and we launched a membership campaign to build our fundraising base. Our d.c. Team educated congressional staff and members, and our legal team produced the most thorough ufo whistleblower protection bill ever written. Our five different calls to action generated 73,000 letters to congress members. We held a strategic meeting and formed a collaborative vision for disclosure with 25 significant allies in the ufo space. Our general counsel continued to legally represent whistleblower, lue elizondo, whose book, imminent, became a new york times best seller. Our legal team began the analysis and research to craft a rico complaint against the leaders of the legacy project who are responsible for multiple crimes associated with the 80 years of secrecy of our capture and interaction with ufo craft and pilots.we co-hosted the first ufo teach in at yale university with the invisible college and the yale student ufo society. And, on october 20, 2024, we launched global disclosure day with a panel of excellent investigators, whistleblowers, and local organizers. 1000 zoom members joined nationally and internationally, and it reached 177,947 live stream viewers. In november, after a public hearing highlighting lue elizondo, we organized a press conference and a successful outdoor rally with our ally, mufon, calling for more public hearings.after several successful classes, we separated new paradigm institute from ubiquity university in order to focus our staff and resources on the challenging task of generating disclosure.

Expenses: $1.0M

Special media project - is a research and investigative project that is preparing to produce a publicly available archive, a 24-episode podcast series, a documentary series, and a cable series about the legal, investigative, and organizing activities of the christic institute and the romero institute. The research covers 50 years of public interest work and reveals important historical information that is relevant today to illuminate systemic injustice in corporate and government corruption, human and civil rights violations, criminal activity, constitutional violations, drug smuggling, and illegal war making. The romero institute archival project seeks to correct the historical record and provide credible facts in several media formats. The goal is to share true facts that beg for new laws and policies needed to create a sustainable, green, and thriving future for the u.s. And the world. In 2024 we received thirty years of archives from the original therapist for ufo/et abduction experiencers, and we are in the process of digitizing the material. Secondly, planning and negotiating began on the development of a podcast about dan sheehan's history in the ufo/et community over the past 50 years.

Expenses: $352KGrants: $75K

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$1.9M
Program service revenue
Investment income$125K
Other revenue
Total revenue$2.0M

Expenses

Grants paid$132K
Salaries & benefits$1.7M
Fundraising$252K
Other expenses$1.1M
Total expenses$2.9M
Total assets$549K
Net assets$401K

People

8 listed

NameRoleCompensation

DANIEL SHEEHAN

PRESIDENT

Board

$139K

50 hrs/wk

SARA NELSON

VICE PRESIDENT

Board

$139K

50 hrs/wk

CHASE IRON EYES

BOARD MEMBER

Board

$87K

45 hrs/wk

GWENDOLYN GRACE

AUDIT COMMITTEE CHAIR

Board

1 hrs/wk

ERIC THIERMANN

BOARD CHAIR

Board

3 hrs/wk

MARKELL BROOKS

BOARD MEMBER

Board

1 hrs/wk

KAREN K JUAREZ

EMPLOYEE

Staff

$109K

40 hrs/wk

JAMES GARRISON

EMPLOYEE

Staff

$107K

40 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 85 of 85

FromAmountPurposeYear
$50K
Project/Program Support - Lakota People's Law Project
2024
$30K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2024
$7K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$5K
USES DONATIONS TO FUND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, ADVOCACY, AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES WITH KNOWLEDGE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
2024
$1K
DONATION
2024
$300K
GENERAL
2023
$192K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2023
$50K
Project/Program Support - Lakota People's Law Project
2023
$42K
PROJECT SUPPORT LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2023
$20K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$11K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2023
$11K
FOR LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2023
$5K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2023
$2K
GENERAL OPERATIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION
2023
$1K
Lakota People's Law Project
2023
$1K
DONATION
2023
$1K
FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2023
$500
GENRAL SUPPORT
2023
$300K
GENERAL
2022
$215K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2022
$50K
Lakota People's Law Project - General Operating Support
2022
$45K
THE NEW PARADIGM INSTITUTE PROJECT
2022
$40K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.
2022
$38K
PROJECT SUPPORT OF LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2022
$20K
FOR LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2022
$12K
Civil Rights
2022
$10K
GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT
2022
$5K
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$3K
GENERAL OPERATIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION
2022
$3K
Lakota People's Law Project in their efforts towards Indian Child Welfare, Native rights advocacy, and protecting sacred lands and waters
2022
$3K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2022
$1K
FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2022
$1K
DONATION
2022
$1K
Lakota People's Law Project
2022
$500
General & Unrestricted
2022
$100
MATCH/DISCRETIONARY
2022
$45
GIFT MATCH GRANTS
2022
$300K
GENERAL
2021
$209K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$209K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$50K
Lakota People's Law Project - General Operating Support
2021
$19K
FOR SUPPORT OF LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2021
$9K
PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2021
$1K
GENERAL SUPPORT
2021
$1K
PROGRAM SUPPORT
2021
$406K
SUPPORT HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS
2020
$300K
GENERAL
2020
$193K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2020
$100K
HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
2020
$100K
General Operating Support - Lakota People's Law Project
2020
$40K
PROJECT SUPPORT FOR THE LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT'S GREENING THE REZ AND PREVENTING PIPELINES PROGRAMS
2020
$15K
TO SUPPORT LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2020
$14K
FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
2020
$11K
Civil Rights
2020
$3K
PROJECT SUPPORT FOR THE LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT
2020
$2K
GENERAL OPERATIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION
2020
$150
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT OF THE LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT.
2020
$155K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2019
$22K
PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2019
$10K
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
2019
$1K
GENL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
2019
$157K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2018
$15K
TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF ROMERO INSTITUTE
2018
$8K
PEOPLE'S LAW PROJ
2018
$211K
FOR GRANT RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSES
2017
$6K
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2017
$500
STANDING UP AGAINST POWERFUL ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS WHO COMMIT GRIEVOUS ACTS AGAINST HUMANITY
2017

Funded by

$4.4M from 41 funders · 85 grants · 2017–2024

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

$1.5M · 8 grants · 2017–2023

Westcliff Foundation

$1.2M · 4 grants · 2020–2023

Loving Giving Serving All

$406K · 1 grant · 2020

Ladybug Foundation Inc

$300K · 5 grants · 2020–2024

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

$279K · 6 grants · 2017–2023

Tides Foundation

$100K · 1 grant · 2020

Common Counsel Foundation

$80K · 2 grants · 2022–2023

Cerity Partners Foundation

$75K · 3 grants · 2019–2022

Details

EIN953527131
Subsection03
Ruling date1981-12
Formed1980
Employees20
Volunteers1179
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