Wyoming · Public charity
Chalten Trust
Fighting the environmental crisis by raising awareness of the current environmental crisis; protecting biodiversity and climate resilience through land preservation and restoration; defending and supporting democracy and environmental activism; lobbying and other advocacy in support of these issues; and making grants to other nonprofit…
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Chalten Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Marin Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $118M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Chalten Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $285k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $515k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $295k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rewild | $515,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Activate America | $220,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Raincoast Conservation Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Cottonwood Environmental Law Center | $75,000 | 1 | 23% |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Votewater Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| 314action | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Environmental Voters | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Soar Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Ventura Citzens for Hillside Preservation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Chalten Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
About Chalten Trust
- How much does Chalten Trust give?
- Chalten Trust reported 3 grants totaling $2,820,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Chalten Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Philanthropy (1%), Civil Rights (0%).
- Who are Chalten Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Rewild ($515k), Activate America ($220k), Raincoast Conservation Foundation ($200k).
- Does Chalten Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Chalten Trust based?
- Chalten Trust is based in WY.
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