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Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc

To advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MEmployment$916kCivil Rights$283k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $661,819, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,698,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,036,181 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $332k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$181,819
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIMATE JOBS MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC$300,000
CLIMATE JOBS NY$181,819
RHODE ISLAND AFL-CIO$150,000
COLORADO CLIMATE JOBS ACTION$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $870k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLIMATE JOBS NY: $232k → 17%CLIMATE JOBS NY: $231k → 17%CLIMATE JOBS NY: $225k → 17%CLIMATE JOBS NY: $182k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 6 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$2.8M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CJ
    CLIMATE JOBS NY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $870k · revenue +174% · 69% of their budget
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND AFL-CIO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $561k · revenue +23%
  • MP
    MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $283k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CJ
    CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Climate Jobs Massachusetts Inc

The objective of the fund is to help build a worker-oriented environmental movement committed to securing a fair and just transition that protects not only the environment but also the livelihoods of workers and their communities.

Environment
2
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc

To advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.

Environment
3
Climate Jobs National Resource Center Inc

To educate workers and the public about policies that will build a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.

Environment
4
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
5
Climate Parliament Inc

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

International
6
Fair Shot Texas

Fair Shot Texas conducts and distributes research, studies, and analyses relating to labor economics and the environment. Working with labor unions and other groups, we lead on solving the climate crisis and creating jobs that benefit…

Public Benefit
7
350 Wisconsin Action Inc

350 Wisconsin Action mobilizes concerned climate voters to push for bold climate action from government and elected officials. We keep the climate crisis at the center of the political conversation, and push for progressive policies that…

Environment
8
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
9
Jobs for Michigan

Clean Jobs for Michigan is building a future we can all be proud of. Through advocating for clean water clean energy and good-paying clean jobs were working to build a Michigan that will sustain our natural resources and hardworking…

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10
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement
11
Climate Finance Action Inc
Environment
12
Climate Jobs Ny Education Fund Inc

To educate the public on the climate and resiliency crises, and promote clean energy, climate resiliency, and union high-road/ green jobs, or to do any other act or thing for any charitable purpose within the meaning of section 102(a)(3-b)…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Jobs Illinois Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Fair Shot Texas Action Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLIMATE JOBS NY INC: $869,809 · Human ServicesCLIMATE JOBS NY INCRHODE ISLAND AFL-CIO: $560,500 · OtherRHODE ISLAND AFL-CIOCLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC: $357,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JOBS ILLIN…CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND: $90,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JOBS ILLIN…Climate Jobs Colorado Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentClimate Jobs Color…CLIMATE JOBS MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $400,000 · EmploymentCLIMATE JOBS MA…FAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND: $355,000 · Public BenefitFAIR SHOT TEX…MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $282,500 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOP…
Human Services$869,809Other$560,500Environment$477,500Employment$400,000Public Benefit$355,000Community Improvement$282,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLIMATE JOBS NY INC: $869,809 over 4y, 69% of budgetRHODE ISLAND AFL-CIO: $560,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetCLIMATE JOBS MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $400,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetCLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC: $357,500 over 2y, 43% of budgetFAIR SHOT TEXAS ACTION FUND: $355,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $282,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetClimate Jobs Colorado Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Climate Jobs National Resource Center Action Fund Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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