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Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$367k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$2.5MPublic Benefit$75kArts & Culture$60kInternational$50kCommunity Improvement$49k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $540,485 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,983,926 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,443,441 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
  • $250k+1 grant · $367k
$98,626
Median grant
4
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CDP NORTH AMERICA INC$367,275
FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION$98,626
MERIDIAN INSTITUTE$54,584
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $103k → 16%SOLIDARIDAD NORTH AMERICA: $40k → 10%Business for Social Responsibility: $66k → 10%B TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $71k → 17%R STREET INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%MERIDIAN INSTITUTE: $113k → 9%CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $11k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 7%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $37k → 16%SOLIDARIDAD NORTH AMERICA: $10k → 10%The B Team Headquarters Inc: $67k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $215k → 14%MERIDIAN INSTITUTE: $88k → 9%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $20k → 16%CDP NORTH AMERICA INC: $367k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $209k → 14%MERIDIAN INSTITUTE: $55k → 9%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $20k → 16%THE B TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $38k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $153k → 14%MERIDIAN INSTITUTE: $55k → 9%CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $20k → 16%CDP NORTH AMERICA INC: $235k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $140k → 14%MERIDIAN INSTITUTE: $45k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15k → 16%THE B TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $14k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $99k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15k → 16%SOCIETY FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INC: $40k → 17%FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%THE CLIMATE GROUP INC: $34k → 17%Foundation for the Global Compact: $30k → 17%THE CLIMATE GROUP INC: $23k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT: $20k → 17%SOCIETY FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INC: $9k → 17%ATLANTIC MEDIA INC: $60k → 17%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

VT
WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
DC

Grants abroad, by region — $8.4M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 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)$5.3M · 63% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: TO FORGE A CONSENSUS AMONG THE NGO INVESTOR NETWORKS ON INVESTOR INDICATORS THAT WILL SUPPORT INVESTOR NET ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2050 IN THE GLOBAL STEEL INDUSTRY. · IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ACTION 100+: INVESTORS ENGAGING WITH CORPORATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE. · TO SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT GROUPS FOR 20 EUROPEAN, CANADIAN AND ASIAN BANKS ON THE PARIS AGREEMENT GOALS TO HELP INVESTORS UNDERSTAND AND MANAGE CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL RISKS.

East Asia and the Pacific$3.0M · 36% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ACTION 100+: INVESTORS ENGAGING WITH CORPORATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE. · TO SUPPORT INVESTOR NET ZERO COMMITMENTS, IMPLEMENTATION, AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND TO SUPPORT INVESTORS WORLDWIDE WHO ADVOCATE FOR THE POLICIES NEEDED TO ENABLE THE NET ZERO TRANSITION.

South America$73k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO RESEARCH CORPORATE PRACTICES AND BENCHMARK PROGRESS IN RELATION TO COMPANY DEFORESTATION COMMITMENTS AND GENERATE CONTENT FOR INVESTORS AND COMPANIES REGARDING NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Ceres Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 11% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ceres Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 11 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$2.5M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • CN
    CDP NORTH AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $602k · revenue +42%
  • MI
    Meridian Institute
    4× · 2021–2024 · $355k · revenue +78%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +37%
  • BF
    BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $66k · revenue +70%
  • AM
    ATLANTIC MEDIA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
2
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
3
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
4
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
5
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
6
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc

The nonpartisan center for climate and energy solutions works to secure a safe and stable climate by accelerating the global transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and a thriving, just, and resilient economy. for over 25 years,…

Environment
7
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
8
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
9
Sustainable World Inc

See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.

Environment
10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cdp North America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forest Trends Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION — $835,583 · EnvironmentFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATIONCDP NORTH AMERICA INC — $602,489 · EnvironmentCDP NORTH AMERICA INCCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $199,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC — $189,000 · EnvironmentB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INCCLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $80,000 · Environment+3 more — $136,225 · Environment+3 moreMeridian Institute — $354,653 · PhilanthropyMeridian Insti…R STREET INSTITUTE — $75,000 · EducationBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY — $65,516 · EducationATLANTIC MEDIA INC — $60,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INC — $49,188 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $7,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT — $50,000 · International
Environment$2,042,797Philanthropy$354,653Education$140,516Other$116,188International$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION — $835,583 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCDP NORTH AMERICA INC — $602,489 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMeridian Institute — $354,653 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $199,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC — $189,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $80,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY — $65,516 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CLIMATE GROUP INC — $56,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOLIDARIDAD NORTH AMERICA — $49,975 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOCIETY FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INC — $49,188 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

New Venture FundDC16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ceres 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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