· Private foundation
Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BETTY LEWIS ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION CORPS | $5,908 |
| FRIENDS OF WINDOM WETLAND DISTRICT | $5,908 |
| MINNESOTA MASTER NATURALIST END FD | $5,908 |
| MARTIN CTY PHEASANTS FOREVER | $5,908 |
| MARTIN CTY CONSERVATION CLUB | $5,908 |
| FOX LAKE CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC | $5,907 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,064 |
| COMMON FIELD INC | $5,064 |
| CORNELL BOTANIC GARDENS | $5,064 |
| FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST | $5,064 |
| NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOC | $5,063 |
| FINGER LAKES TRAIL CONFERENCE | $5,063 |
| ITHACA CHILDREN'S GARDEN INC | $5,063 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $3,939 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $3,939 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCONSERVATION CORPS8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +62%
- FLFOX LAKE CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue ×15
- NCNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Cornellone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MCMartin County Conservation Club Inc.one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -83%
- MMMinnesota Master Naturalist End Fd, University of Minnesotaone grant, 2018 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Corps and the most unlike its peers is Rainforest Alliance Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds FOX LAKE CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Finger Lakes Trail Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds Ithaca Childrens Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Hells Canyon Council ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Martin County Conservation Club Inc. ↗
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.
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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 Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trust 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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
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.