How much did CHALTEN TRUST grant in FY2024?

CHALTEN TRUST reported 8 grants totaling $2,711,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

· Public charity

CHALTEN TRUST

Provides grants to organizations engaged in protecting the environment and engages in direct conservation efforts to protect the environment through the acquisition of land or other property or contractual rights.

$2.7M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$2.4M

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Philanthropy$5.3MAnimals$515kEnvironment$95kCivil Rights$35kInternational$20kOther$230k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

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2023

planet climateclimate change

2024

advocacy planetplanet climateclimate change

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $85k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $2.4M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$119M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,422,000
ACTIVATE AMERICA$200,000
314 ACTION$20,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$20,000
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS$15,000
VOTEWATER INC$10,000
VENTURA CITZENS FOR HILLSIDE PRESERVATION INC$10,000
SOAR INC$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

CalWild

CalWild protects our state's drinking water and wild places by seeking new protections for streams and natural areas on public lands. Current campaigns include: the Sierra Forests, NW CA, the Desert, the San Gabriel Mts and the Central…

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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment

Russian Riverkeeper

The Russian Riverkeeper protectsand restores our watershed environmentfor the benefit of current and futuregenerations.

Environment

California Environmental Voters

ENVIROVOTERS ED FUND is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the quality of the environment for all Californians. ENVIROVOTERS ED FUND works to build the capacity of environmental organizations by developing and providing…

Environment

Environmental Action Committee

To protect and sustain the unique lands, waters, and biodiversity of west marin.

Environment

Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions.

Environment

Redwood Coast Land Conservancy

We conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic and open space opportunities. We also develop and maintain public access ways and trails to the ocean, rivers and other natural or scenic features along…

Environment

Connecting California Conservancy

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Save Cuesta Inlet Inc

Environment

Federation of State Conservation Leagues

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is League of Conservation Voters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marin Community Foundation. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,335,606Animals$515,000Other$230,000Environment$95,000Civil Rights$35,000International$20,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CHALTEN TRUST 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~1457 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 912115603 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 1457 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chalten Trust?

Find your warmest path to Chalten Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHALTEN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chalten Trust?

More from the funding graph

CHALTEN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chalten Trust?

More from the funding graph