How much does Climate Emergency Fund give?

Climate Emergency Fund reported 18 itemized grants totaling $2,766,792, out of $4,316,562 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Climate Emergency Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Civil Rights (14%), Community Improvement (11%).

Who are Climate Emergency Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Oil & Gas Action Network ($848k), New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ($755k), International Center on Nonviolent Conflict ($652k).

Does Climate Emergency Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Emergency Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sustainable Markets Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.

Where is Climate Emergency Fund based?

Climate Emergency Fund is based in CA.

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Climate Emergency Fund

CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND supports nonviolent climate activists who wake up the public and demand urgent action from governments and corporations to address the climate emergency. CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND is a non-profit, publicly supported corporation organized in delaware.CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND fundraises for and makes grants to climate…

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 18
Itemized grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 55%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $652,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 18; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Climate Emergency Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	17	$2.8M	59%
FY2023	11	$1.2M	55%
FY2022	16	$1.0M	69%
FY2021	14	$736k	57%
FY2020	18	$1.8M	72%
FY2019	9	$255k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$4.3MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$841kPublic Benefit$670kHuman Services$569kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$85kEducation$54kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oil & Gas Action Network	$847,500	3	19%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc	$755,000	4	10%
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict	$652,000	1	40%
National Institute for Peer Support	$593,750	6	40%
Center for the Working Poor	$406,000	1	45%
Greenpeace Fund Inc	$350,000	1	1%
Climate Mobilization Project Inc	$260,000	4	17%
Climate Defiance Action	$250,000	1	33%
Climate Defiance Foundation	$243,292	1	99%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$240,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Climate Emergency Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oil & Gas Action Network	$847,500	3	19%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc	$755,000	4	10%
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict	$652,000	1	40%
National Institute for Peer Support	$593,750	6	40%
Center for the Working Poor	$406,000	1	45%
Greenpeace Fund Inc	$350,000	1	1%
Climate Mobilization Project Inc	$260,000	4	17%
Climate Defiance Action	$250,000	1	33%
Climate Defiance Foundation	$243,292	1	99%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$240,000	4	0%
March on Maryland	$225,000	3	7%
Xr Mobilization	$200,000	1	n/a
Ayni Institute Inc	$163,000	1	12%
Global Conservation	$145,000	1	4%
Beloved Community Ministries Inc	$135,000	2	37%
Environmentalism Through Inspiration & Nonviolent Action	$135,000	2	6%
The River Project	$119,774	2	37%
Project Earth 2025 Inc	$103,034	1	91%
Rise Education Fund	$100,000	1	7%
GVNGorg	$100,000	1	5%
Mothers Out Front Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Yellow Dot Studios Inc	$100,000	1	6%
Rainforest Action Network	$100,000	1	1%
H4x	$87,000	2	100%
350eug	$80,000	1	65%
Better Future Project Inc	$75,000	1	5%
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund	$75,000	1	20%
American Conservation Coalition Inc	$74,500	2	3%
Evangelical Environmental Network	$64,500	2	6%
Alliance of Community Trainers	$55,000	2	17%
Goodpower Inc	$50,000	1	8%
Fight for the Future Education Fund	$50,000	1	6%
Climate Science Education Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Catskill Mountain Club Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Beautiful Trouble Inc	$45,000	4	n/a
New Consensus	$40,500	1	8%
Veterans For Peace Inc	$40,000	1	7%
The River Project Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
350pdx	$35,000	1	6%
Solon Center For Research And Publishing	$30,000	1	4%
Charleston Climate Coalition	$25,000	1	26%
Blue Sky Institure	$25,000	1	25%
David Suzuki Foundation USA	$25,000	1	n/a
Mn350	$25,000	1	1%
350 New Hampshire	$15,000	1	2%
Art Not War	$15,000	1	n/a
Xr Southwest Michigan	$10,000	1	n/a
Wisconsin Youth Climate Action Team (Ycat Wi)	$10,000	1	n/a
Inquiring Systems Inc	$10,000	1	0%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($335k), not named here.

Climate Emergency Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sustainable Markets FoundationNY30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sustainable Markets Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · The Aileen Getty Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Windward Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · 350org

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Climate Emergency Fund

How much does Climate Emergency Fund give?: Climate Emergency Fund reported 18 itemized grants totaling $2,766,792, out of $4,316,562 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Climate Emergency Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Civil Rights (14%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Climate Emergency Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Oil & Gas Action Network ($848k), New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ($755k), International Center on Nonviolent Conflict ($652k).
Does Climate Emergency Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Emergency Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sustainable Markets Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Climate Emergency Fund based?: Climate Emergency Fund is based in CA.