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Filing year 2024

Roots of Success

Berkeley, California·EIN 88-0879635·NTEE C60 · Environment·3
Total revenue
$1.1M
Total assets
$1.6M
Total expenses
$589k
Reported officers
6
Mission

?Roots of Success? RoS is an empowering environmental literacy and job training 501c3 program that prepares youth and adults to access jobs and career pathways in environmental fields, and to improve environmental conditions in their communities. The program is centered around a federal and California state registered Department of Labor Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship and a 10-module course. Pre-apprentices earn an ?Environmental Specialist? credential. Apprentices earn a ?CTE Environmental Literacy Instructor? credential.The program is offered in a wide range of settings that include: high schools, youth programs, adult schools, job training programs, reentry programs, prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities. Since 2009, the program has been offered in over 600 schools and organizations throughout the United States over 26,000 youth and adults have gone through the program, more than 12,000 took the course while incarcerated.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Director
director (operational)
$195k
$207k
Base
$195k
Bonus
Other
Benefits

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 5 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Environment

Up 45%
from 2023

From $135k in 2023 to $195k in 2024.

$135k
2023
$195k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 41% in real terms$147k to $207k

Estimated with San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

Roots of Success reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$997k
$481k
2023
$1.1M
$589k
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Environment executives earn in California

Comparable environment organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $88,983.

25th percentile
$37k
Median
$88,983
75th percentile
$147k
90th percentile
$221k

These are environment sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 163 organizations across 163 filings (2022 – 2023).

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