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BlueGreen Alliance Foundation

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) conducts research and educates the public and media about solutions to environmental challenges that create economic opportunities for the American people.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.4MHealth$301kEmployment$24kEducation$16kPublic Benefit$15kScience & Tech$15kHousing & Shelter$12k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BlueGreen Alliance Inc$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Paideia Academies Inc: $10k → 11%Clean Production Action: $144k → 8%City of Lynn Dept of Public Health: $10k → 10%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $400k → 11%Metro State University: $6k → 14%City of Missoula: $20k → 9%Healthy Start Inc: $5k → 11%City of Scranton: $5k → 13%City & County of San Francisco: $5k → 10%Common Defense Civic Engagement: $67k → 17%Workers Assistance Program Inc: $97k → 10%City of Norman: $5k → 13%Clean Water Fund: $10k → 14%Michigan State AFL-CIO Workforce Dev Inst: $8k → 16%City of Flint MI: $20k → 16%Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision Project: $10k → 21%WI Regional Training Partnership Inc: $8k → 17%Oregon Environmental Council: $35k → 12%City of Providence RI: $17k → 14%Salt Lake City Corporation: $5k → 8%Boulder Housing Partners: $12k → 12%Alaska Community Action on Toxics: $5k → 10%Municipality of Anchorage: $20k → 14%HIRE 360: $8k → 14%City of Champaign Township: $10k → 19%One Voice: $15k → 23%Greenfaith Inc: $2k → 8%Princeton University (Office of Research and Project Administration): $15k → 11%Charles Pankow Foundation: $10k → 6%Clean Production Action: $17k → 8%City of Salem: $5k → 10%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $375k → 11%Common Defense Civic Engagement: $67k → 17%City of Boulder: $23k → 12%National Wildlife Federation: $75k → 6%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $200k → 11%National Wildlife Federation: $38k → 6%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $100k → 11%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $100k → 11%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $100k → 11%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $25k → 11%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $400k → 11%BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $300k → 11%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

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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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 4 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$2.3M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • BA
    BlueGreen Alliance Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
  • CP
    CLEAN PRODUCTION ACTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $161k · revenue -8%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $113k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WA
    Workers Assistance Program Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $97k · revenue +7%
  • CD
    COMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue -35%
  • CD
    COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $67k · revenue +132%
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
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
2
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
3
The Partnership Project Action Fund

The Partnership Project Action Fund helps the environmental community work more collaboratively to advocate for the protection of the natural environment.

Environment
4
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
5
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
6
Clean Water Action

Clean water action is a national citizens organization working for clean, safe, and affrodable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and busnesses and empowerment of people to make…

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7
Center for Environmental Accountability

The Center for Environmental Accountability (CEA) is a not-for-profit organization that educates Americans on the importance of transparency and accountability in environmental and energy policy. CEA's work is informed by its core…

Environment
8
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

Environment
9
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
10
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
11
Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…

Public Benefit
12
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean Production Action Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charles Pankow Foundation. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BlueGreen Alliance Inc: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentBlueGreen Alliance IncCLEAN PRODUCTION ACTION INC: $160,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN PRODUCTION ACTION INC+5 more: $62,000 · EnvironmentARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · OtherCITY OF BOULDER: $23,000 · OtherMunicipality of Anchorage: $20,000 · OtherCITY OF MISSOULA: $20,000 · OtherCITY OF FLINT: $20,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT: $16,500 · OtherBoulder Housing Partners: $12,000 · OtherLYNN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF CHAMPAIGN TOWNSHIP: $10,000 · OtherMichigan State AFL-CIO Workforce Dev Inst: $8,000 · OtherMISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHIRE360: $8,000 · Other+6 more: $30,000 · OtherCOMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $66,667 · Public BenefitCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $66,667 · Public BenefitOne Voice: $15,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $112,500 · AnimalsWorkers Assistance Program Inc: $97,000 · HealthThe Trustees of Princeton University: $15,000 · EducationThe Paideia Academies Inc: $10,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationCHARLES PANKOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$2,222,500Other$221,500Public Benefit$148,334Animals$112,500Health$97,000Education$30,500Philanthropy$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlueGreen Alliance Inc: $2,000,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetCLEAN PRODUCTION ACTION INC: $160,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $112,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorkers Assistance Program Inc: $97,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $66,667 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $66,667 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES PANKOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Paideia Academies Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIRE360: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY START INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENFAITH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 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.

National Recreation a…Natural Resources Def…Firehouse Subs Public…United States Energy …Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationProgressive Multiplie…Cities for Financial …National League of Ci…Windward FundPatagoniaorgNational Fish and Wil…
National Recreation and Park AssociationVA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Recreation and Park Association · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Progressive Multiplier Fund · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National League of Cities Institute Inc · Windward Fund · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife 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 BlueGreen Alliance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BlueGreen Alliance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report 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.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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