Environment
The Breakthrough Institute
BERKELEY, CA
Total revenue
$7.5M
Total expenses
$5.5M
Net assets
$5.1M
Grants received
$20.3M
87 grants
EIN
814526660
Tax year
2024
Mission
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Programs
2 programs
Events: Network building is one of the principal ways that Breakthrough makes change in the world, and we primarily execute on this through our events. For the last ten years we hosted a West Coast conference and are going on our 8th year hosting a multi-day East Coast event that is policy-focused with hundreds of bipartisan attendees. We also host numerous small gatherings, high-level meetings, and issue-focused workshops.
Communications: Our communications program consists of regular publication of research and commentary on our website; our flagship Breakthrough Journal, which now lives on Substack as The Ecomodernist; a strong social media presence; speaking engagements at conferences and events; and staff writing at other outlets--including in academia, the peer-reviewed literature, and mainstream media.
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
21 listed
Ronald Nordhaus
Executive Dir.
$261K
40 hrs/wk
Rachel Pritzker
Board Chair
—
2 hrs/wk
Thomas Riley
Sec./Treasury
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2 hrs/wk
Matthew Winkler
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Tisha Schuller
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Ross Koningstein
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Ray Rothrock
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Jennifer Hernandez
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Chris Foreman
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Bill Budinger
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
Varun Sivaram
Board Member
—
1 hrs/wk
David Hong
Washington Dir.
$204K
40 hrs/wk
Alex Trembath
Deputy Director
$191K
40 hrs/wk
Seaver Wang
Co-Dir Climate & Energy
$184K
40 hrs/wk
Vijaya Ramachandran
Dir Energy for Dev
$168K
40 hrs/wk
Daniel Blaustein-Reijto
Dir Food & Agriculture
$162K
40 hrs/wk
Adam Stein
Dir Nuclear Energy Innovation
$158K
40 hrs/wk
Patrick Brown
Co-Dir Climate & Energy
$153K
40 hrs/wk
Ephstathia Bonadies
Dir Events & Proj
$135K
40 hrs/wk
Ann Wang
Dir. of Operations
$129K
40 hrs/wk
Alexander Smith
Editorial Dir.
$125K
40 hrs/wk
Grants received
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$20.3M from 31 funders · 87 grants · 2017–2024
$6.7M · 4 grants · 2020–2023
$3.0M · 3 grants · 2022–2023
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$3.0M · 7 grants · 2018–2023
$2.0M · 6 grants · 2017–2023
$650K · 3 grants · 2020–2023
$500K · 5 grants · 2020–2024
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