How much does As You Sow give?

As You Sow reported 2 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does As You Sow fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Environment (23%), International (21%).

Who are As You Sow's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: The Manaaki Foundation ($53k), Democracy Forward Foundation ($50k), Sustainable Investments Institute Inc ($50k).

Does As You Sow fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as As You Sow?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

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California · Public charity

As You Sow

To promote environmental and social corporate responsibility on issues relating to climate change and environmental health; social issues included racial justice and workplace diversity; and toxic ingredients in consumer products.

$100k
Granted FY2023: 2
Grants FY2023: 2
Organizations funded FY2023: 100%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2023: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2023: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 5; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023: 2
Total assets, FY2023: $9.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations As You Sow funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalPublic BenefitEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2023	2	$100k	100%
FY2022	3	$125k	100%
FY2019	5	$97k	80%
FY2018	2	$58k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Public Benefit$100kEnvironment$86kInternational$80kPhilanthropy$53kEducation$40kFood & Nutrition$13kHealth$4kHuman Services$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Manaaki Foundation	$53,235	1	4%
Democracy Forward Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Sustainable Investments Institute Inc	$50,000	1	12%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
United States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Developme	$40,000	1	57%
Green America	$35,000	1	0%
Clean Label Project Foundation	$12,750	2	6%
Commonweal	$4,000	1	0%
Nontoxic Certified Inc	$4,000	2	1%
Beyond Pesticides	$1,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

As You Sow supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About As You Sow

How much does As You Sow give?: As You Sow reported 2 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does As You Sow fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Environment (23%), International (21%).
Who are As You Sow's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: The Manaaki Foundation ($53k), Democracy Forward Foundation ($50k), Sustainable Investments Institute Inc ($50k).
Does As You Sow fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as As You Sow?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is As You Sow based?: As You Sow is based in CA.