· Public charity
Center for Coalfield Justice
Improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower, and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $704k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS | $115,903 |
| PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILIT | $99,000 |
| THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT | $75,000 |
| OCCIDENTAL ARTS & ECOLOGY CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER | $75,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $55,000 |
| WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE | $55,000 |
| PLASTIC FREE FUTURE | $54,500 |
| GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR INCINERATOR ALT | $50,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $50,000 |
| PORT ARTHUR COMMUNITY ACTION NETWOR | $37,754 |
| BREATHE FREE DETROIT | $33,316 |
| PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT | $27,000 |
| EUREKA RECYCLING | $25,000 |
| CARRIZO COMECRUDO TRIBE OF TEXAS | $16,824 |
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
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.
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.
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To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Present Netzeroco2 manuscript at climate change conferences and lead a 35 PhD team to debunk climate change garbage of the iPCC
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the most unlike its peers is Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds THE DESCENDANTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECYCLING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Sierra Club · Orange County Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Windward Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Center for Coalfield Justice 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.
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.
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