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An Environmental Trust Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$317k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$1.4MAnimals$90kEducation$51kArts & Culture$33kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE$150,000
ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$55,000
MEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOC$22,000
350 NEW HAMPSHIRE$20,000
FRIENDS OF MAINE COASTALA ISLAND$15,000
PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN$15,000
NH HEALTHY CLIMATE$15,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOC INC$15,000
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOC$8,434
CONSULTATION GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY ACTION WORKS: $20k → 16%PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN: $15k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR PA WATERSHEDS: $10k → 13%ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOC: $8k → 17%ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $50k → 14%NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST: $15k → 9%NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $25k → 5%FRANCESTOWN LAND TRUST: $10k → 7%AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $25k → 7%350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $30k → 9%MAINE RIVERS: $10k → 7%MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST: $20k → 9%FIVE TOWN CSDCAMDEN HILLS HS: $51k → 11%MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES: $20k → 11%NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE: $20k → 12%DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION: $20k → 16%ENVIORNOMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $20k → 14%NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $25k → 5%PISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY: $15k → 7%AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $25k → 7%350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $20k → 9%MEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOC: $22k → 11%MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $20k → 12%WOODIE WHEATON LAND TRUST: $10k → 16%ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $55k → 17%NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $10k → 5%AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $20k → 7%MERRYSPRING NATURE CENTER: $10k → 11%MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $40k → 17%FRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLAND: $50k → 11%ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $40k → 17%FRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLAND: $20k → 11%ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $30k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE: $240k → 7%FRIENDS OF MAINE COASTALA ISLAND: $15k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE: $150k → 7%GEORGES RIVER LAND TRUST: $10k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE: $100k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $60k → 7%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE: $50k → 7%CLEAN ENERGY NEW HAMPSHIRE: $40k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE AUDUBON: $25k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO: $18k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOC INC: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$1.1M
$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+39%

Still filing today

77%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentScience & TechArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +56%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $33k · revenue +57%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY NHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +61%
  • FT
    FIVE TOWN CSDCAMDEN HILLS HS
    one grant, 2024 · $51k
  • ED
    ENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
4
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative

The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…

Animals
5
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
6
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…

Environment
7
30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…

Environment
8
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

Our mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural resources across our island and mainland communities for the benefit of current and future generations.

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9
Loon Echo Land Trust Inc

Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.

Environment
10
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
11
The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc

To promote the protection and restoration of wetlands and related aquatic resources, to apply sound science to wetland management, and to provide training, education, and capacity building for our members and the public.

Environment
12
Boothbay Region Land Trust

To conserve for the public benefit natural habitat, scenic beauty, and working land of the Boothbay region of Maine by providing stewardship, public access, and environmental programs.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%8%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr17%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%11%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr17%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
8%
729/8,715

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIRE — $540,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - NEW HAMPSHIREFRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLAND — $70,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MAINE SEABIRD ISLANDFIVE TOWN CSDCAMDEN HILLS HS — $51,000 · OtherFIVE TOWN CSDCAMDEN HILLS HSENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUND — $50,000 · OtherENVIORNMENTAL DEFENSE FUNDCLEAN ENERGY NEW HAMPSHIRE — $40,000 · Other+11 more — $148,500 · Other+11 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $165,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST — $77,500 · EnvironmentAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUSTNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INCCLEAN ENERGY NH — $60,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN ENERGY NH350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $50,000 · Environment350 NEW HAMPSHIRENH Healthy Climate — $35,000 · EnvironmentNH Healthy ClimateMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $30,000 · EnvironmentNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Environment+9 more — $126,400 · Environment+9 moreNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $20,000 · Science & TechCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $6,000 · Science & TechDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $20,000 · AnimalsPittsburgh Botanic Garden — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF MAINE COASTAL ISLANDS NW R — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$899,500Environment$628,900Arts & Culture$32,500Science & Tech$26,000Animals$20,000Youth Development$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST — $77,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY NH — $60,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $50,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetNH Healthy Climate — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEGUNTICOOK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $22,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAINE COASTAL ISLANDS NW R — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $11,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODIE WHEATON LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGeorges River Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFrancestown Land Trust Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Hampshire Charita…Maine Community Found…Davis Conservation Fo…The Nature ConservancyPatagoniaorgNational Fish and Wil…Rhoads Jr Jay-Environ…John Sage FoundationThe John Merck FundJohn M Hopwood IrrFields Pond Foundatio…Onion Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rhoads Jr Jay-Environmental Fund Tr · John Sage Foundation · The John Merck Fund · John M Hopwood Irr · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization An Environmental Trust Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to An Environmental Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to An Environmental Trust Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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