New York · Private foundation
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $253,691
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Advocates for Climate Innovation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $1.3M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $18M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.8M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $3.9M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $4.2M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linden Climate Fund Inc | $16,270,641 | 2 | 3% |
| Alliance for Market Solutions Inc | $5,900,000 | 4 | 58% |
| World Resources Institute | $1,790,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | $1,400,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $1,185,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Center for Carbon Removal | $1,095,167 | 6 | 7% |
| Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Inc | $900,000 | 6 | 3% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $825,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $675,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Forests | $584,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Advocates for Climate Innovation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Climateworks Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Energy Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Climate Imperative Foundation
How this is measured
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About Advocates for Climate Innovation
- How much does Advocates for Climate Innovation give?
- Advocates for Climate Innovation reported 17 grants totaling $1,292,024 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Advocates for Climate Innovation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Public Benefit (5%), Animals (2%).
- Who are Advocates for Climate Innovation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Linden Climate Fund Inc ($16M), Alliance for Market Solutions Inc ($5.9M), World Resources Institute ($1.8M).
- Does Advocates for Climate Innovation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Advocates for Climate Innovation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Advocates for Climate Innovation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Climateworks Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Breakthrough Energy Foundation.
- Where is Advocates for Climate Innovation based?
- Advocates for Climate Innovation is based in NY.
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