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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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$652k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$4.3MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$841kPublic Benefit$670kHuman Services$569kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$85kEducation$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $2,766,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,316,562 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,549,770 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–50k7 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $918k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Intrl Center on Nonviolent C$652,000
Center for the Working Poor$406,000
Oil and Gas Action Network$365,000
Climate Defiance Action$250,000
Climate Defiance Foundation$243,292
New York Communities Organizi$220,000
Ayni Institute$163,000
Yellow Dot Studios Inc$100,000
Massachusetts Peace Action Ed$75,000
ETINA$60,000
H4X$57,000
New Consensus$40,500
Beloved Community Ministries$35,000
National Institute for Peer S$25,000
Blue Sky Institute$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Ayni Institute: $163k → 16%Center for the Working Poor: $406k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
SC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $1.5M on the FY2024 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)$1.3M · 87% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Recruit. & Training

North America (Canada and Mexico)$97k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Recruit. & Training

East Asia and the Pacific$75k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Recruit. & Training

Sub-Saharan Africa$35k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAINING

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 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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 14 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
33

Total granted

$3.6M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • OG
    OIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $848k · revenue +72%
  • NY
    New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $755k · revenue +84%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $240k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +7%
  • XM
    XR MOBILIZATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • AF
    ACTION FOR CLIMATE EMERGENCY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k

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
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
2
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
4
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
5
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
6
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
7
Environment Now
—
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
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
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
11
350 Vermont Inc

350 vermont is building a people-powered and people-led climate justice movement in vermont for a just, thriving world. we are guided by the voices, experiences, and solutions of those most impacted by the global climate crisis.

Environment
12
Climate Change Education Project
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Future Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Center On Nonviolent Conflict. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%12%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%33%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,515

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
20/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK — $847,500 · EnvironmentOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORKGREENPEACE FUND INC — $350,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCClimate Mobilization Project Inc — $260,000 · EnvironmentClimate Mobilization Project IncCLIMATE DEFIANCE FOUNDATION — $243,292 · EnvironmentCLIMATE DEFIANCE FOUNDATIONSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $240,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONGLOBAL CONSERVATION — $145,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION — $135,000 · EnvironmentThe River Project — $119,774 · Environment+12 more — $769,534 · Environment+12 moreClimate Defiance Action — $250,000 · OtherClimate Defiance A…XR MOBILIZATION — $200,000 · OtherXR MOBILIZATIONACTION FOR CLIMATE EMERGENCY — $150,000 · OtherACTION FOR CLIMATE…Evangelical Environmental Network — $64,500 · OtherBEAUTIFUL TROUBLE INC — $45,000 · OtherYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC — $100,000 · OtherYELLOW DOT STUDIOS…350EUG — $80,000 · Other350EUGCATSKILL MOUNTAIN CLUB INC — $50,000 · Other+15 more — $342,100 · Other+15 moreNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $755,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Comm…Beloved Community Ministries Inc — $135,000 · Community ImprovementBeloved Commu…NEW CONSENSUS — $40,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL CENTER ON NONVIOLENT CONFLICT — $652,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONA…RISE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCATI…GVNGorg — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGVNGorgNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT — $593,750 · Public BenefitNATIONAL IN…Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund — $75,000 · Public BenefitMassachuset…FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · Public BenefitFIGHT FOR T…Veterans For Peace Inc — $40,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $25,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR — $406,000 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $163,000 · Human ServicesMARCH ON MARYLAND — $225,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$3,110,100Other$1,281,600Community Improvement$940,500Philanthropy$852,000Public Benefit$783,750Human Services$569,000Civil Rights$225,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK — $847,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $755,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER ON NONVIOLENT CONFLICT — $652,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT — $593,750 over 6y, 40% of budgetCENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR — $406,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $350,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetClimate Mobilization Project Inc — $260,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetClimate Defiance Action — $250,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCLIMATE DEFIANCE FOUNDATION — $243,292 over 1y, 99% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMARCH ON MARYLAND — $225,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC — $163,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGLOBAL CONSERVATION — $145,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBeloved Community Ministries Inc — $135,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION — $135,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe River Project — $119,774 over 2y, 37% of budgetPROJECT EARTH 2025 INC — $103,034 over 1y, 91% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGVNGorg — $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetH4X — $87,000 over 2y, 100% of budget350EUG — $80,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetBETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMassachusetts Peace Action Education Fund — $75,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $74,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network — $64,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY TRAINERS — $55,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetGOODPOWER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNEW CONSENSUS — $40,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetVeterans For Peace Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budget350PDX — $35,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSolon Center For Research And Publishing — $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHARLESTON CLIMATE COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBlue Sky Institure — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMN350 — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget350 NEW HAMPSHIRE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $7,500 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.

Sustainable Markets F…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Wallace Global Fund IIPatagoniaorgUnited States Energy …The Aileen Getty Foun…Rockefeller Family Fu…Windward FundCommon Counsel Founda…350org
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

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 Climate Emergency Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Climate Emergency Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Climate Emergency Fund 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 58 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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