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Aspen Global Change Institute Inc

Agci advances global change science and solutions by furthering interdisciplinary understanding and nurturing community to catalyze science-informed action. Agci engages solutions-seekers including researchers, practitioners, boundary-spanners, citizens, and learners of all ages - through convening, collaborative research, education, and…

$23M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$12M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$3,817,499
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,387,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Aspen Global Change Institute Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23
EnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$12M0%
FY20234$10M0%
FY20225$9.2M0%
FY20206$87M50%
FY20195$6.7M40%
FY20184$4.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$114MPublic Benefit$15M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Aspen Global Change Institute Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClimate Imperative Foundation: $80,758,699 over 1y, 98% of budgetInstitute for Transportation and Development Policy: $15,196,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetThe International Council on Clean Transportation Inc: $13,994,586 over 7y, 25% of budgetClasp: $13,498,203 over 7y, 20% of budgetRegulatory Assistance Project: $4,029,734 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Energy Foundation: $1,835,309 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies: $110,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 8.

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.

The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Sequoia Climate Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Aspen Global Change Institute Inc?

Find your warmest path to Aspen Global Change Institute 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.

About Aspen Global Change Institute Inc

How much does Aspen Global Change Institute Inc give?
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $11,829,628, out of $22,546,411 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Aspen Global Change Institute Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (88%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are Aspen Global Change Institute Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Climate Imperative Foundation ($81M), Institute for Transportation and Development Policy ($15M), The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc ($14M).
Does Aspen Global Change Institute Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aspen Global Change Institute Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Sequoia Climate Foundation, Climateworks Foundation.
Where is Aspen Global Change Institute Inc based?
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc is based in CO.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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