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An Environmental Trust Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NH HEALTHY CLIMATE$15,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOC INC$15,000
FRIENDS OF MAINE COASTALA ISLAND$15,000
PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN$15,000
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOC$8,434
CONSULTATION GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $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%NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAINE COASTAL ISLANDS NW R: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPISCATAQUOG LAND CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization An Environmental Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from An Environmental Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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