· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $6,148,182 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,317,930 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,169,748 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
- $50k–250k6 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY ILR SCHOOL | $2,250,000 |
| FAIR SHOT TEXAS | $1,100,000 |
| UNION ENERGY | $600,000 |
| CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND | $500,000 |
| MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE | $400,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH | $265,000 |
| CLIMATE JOBS MASSACHUSETTS INC | $225,000 |
| COLORADO CLIMATE JOBS | $220,000 |
| CONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE CLIMATE & JOBS | $200,000 |
| CLIMATE JOBS WASHINGTON | $200,000 |
| CLIMATE JOBS NY EDUCATION FUND | $118,182 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $70,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Climate Jobs National Resource Center Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Cornell University3× · 2022–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +15%- WAWorkers Assistance Program Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $925k · revenue +7%
- MPMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $758k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- UMUNITED MINEWORKERS OF AMERICA CAREER CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue -28% · 30% of their budget
- CJCLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $220k · revenue +180%
- CFCenter for Impact Researchone grant, 2023 · $205k · revenue -97% · 60% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advocate for a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and create more equitable communities.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.
Clean Energy for America Action Fund (CE4AEF) is a network of clean energy business leaders, workers, and advocates advancing federal decarbonization policies to protect our environment. CE4AEF works to demonstrate the depth, breadth, and…
Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and…
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
To educate and advocate for a pro-climate agenda that prioritizes policies in support of current and future illinois workers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Jobs Ny Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Climate Infrastructure Pension Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHOT TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Workers Assistance Program Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS ↗
- Who funds Union Energy ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINEWORKERS OF AMERICA CAREER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS NY EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Climate Jobs Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Impact Research ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Transition Institute ↗
- Who funds Climate Infrastructure Pension Project Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The New World Foundation
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 Jobs National Resource Center Inc 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.
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.
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