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Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to conduct case investigation and advocacy, including mediation, arbitration and litigation in matters…

$574k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$489kPublic Benefit$12kCivil Rights$10kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$10kHuman Services$7kOther$47k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $220,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $574,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $354,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
$190,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE$190,000
CLEAN WISCONSIN INC$30,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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Grants abroad, by region — $351k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$276k · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PETROCHEMICAL CAMPAIGN

Sub-Saharan Africa$38k · 11% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CLIMATE LITIGATION SUPPORT · CIVIL SOCIETY MEETINGS

East Asia and the Pacific$30k · 9% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH REPORT ON PETROCHEMICALS LANDSCAPE IN ASIA-PACIFIC · WORKSHOP OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Central America and the Caribbean$8k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CIVIL SOCIETY MEETINGS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your field

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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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
2
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
3
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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4
Texas Campaign for the Environment

Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.

Environment
5
Great Basin Resource Watch

Natural resource protection: Protected communities and the environment from the negative impacts of mineral development; provided support to communities impacted by mining

Environment
6
Earthjustice

Earthjustice is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. we wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy,…

Environment
7
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
8
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
9
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
10
Global Envirotech Initiative
Philanthropy
11
Environment Now
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12
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Integrity Project and the most unlike its peers is River Valley Organizing. 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 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $375,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICECLEAN WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WISCONSIN INCGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives — $23,250 · Environment+6 more — $61,200 · Environment+6 moreMID-OHIO VALLEY CLIMATE ACTION — $10,000 · OtherMID-OHIO …ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE — $9,611 · OtherENVIRONME…BLUE OCEAN LAW — $9,500 · OtherBLUE OCEA…The 5 Gyres Institute — $9,250 · OtherThe 5 Gyr…CARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC — $8,815 · OtherCARRIZO C…Earthworks — $12,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $10,000 · Civil RightsTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMOTE PT — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBackbone Campaign — $6,795 · Human Services
Environment$489,450Other$47,176Public Benefit$12,000Civil Rights$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Human Services$6,795

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $375,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives — $23,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRACTRACKER ALLIANCE — $14,250 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEarthworks — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCalhoun County Resource Watch — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPROMOTE PT — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE — $9,611 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $9,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute — $9,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC — $8,815 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $7,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBackbone Campaign — $6,795 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

Resources Legacy FundThe Schmidt Family Fo…PatagoniaorgWindward FundRockefeller Family Fu…Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…United States Energy …EarthworksSierra ClubPark Foundation Inc
Resources Legacy FundCA27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Windward Fund · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Earthworks · Sierra Club · Park Foundation Inc

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 International Environmental Law Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Center for International Environmental Law Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Center for International Environmental Law 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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