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Climate Ride Inc

Climate ride is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that mobilizes people to protect our planet through life-changing adventures.

$691k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5.7MRecreation & Sports$938kAnimals$465kPhilanthropy$425kPublic Benefit$196kCommunity Improvement$171kHuman Services$120kScience & Tech$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $500,128, the rows itemized in this filing. The $691,436 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $191,308 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

  • Under $10k26 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
$8,241
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLACIER NAT PARK CONSERVANCY$69,122
CLIMATE ONE$54,000
THE CLIMATE CENTER$27,574
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION$18,967
SIERRA CLUB CONNECTICUT$16,692
BIKE EAST BAY$16,543
SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE COA$16,296
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$15,798
TIDES CENTER$14,362
TRANSFORM$13,493
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$13,261
BIKE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$12,728
SPOKELAND$12,677
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COAL$10,485
Individual grant recipient$10,362
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 (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN IN SOLAR ENERGY WISE: $5k → 16%CA STRAW BUILDING ASSOC: $36k → 10%CA STRAW BUILDING ASSOC: $7k → 10%CALIFORNIA STRAW BUILDING: $6k → 10%CALIFORNIA STRAW BUILDING: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTERPODER: $36k → 10%VOTE SOLAR: $20k → 10%BEYOND FISTULA: $10k → 8%BEYOND FISTULA: $6k → 8%VOTE SOLAR: $13k → 10%VOTE SOLAR: $9k → 10%VOTE SOLAR: $8k → 10%TIDES CENTERPODER: $21k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $14k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 55 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
64

Total granted

$7.0M
$765k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+38%

Still filing today

93%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $723k · revenue +125%
  • CR
    CLIMATE RIDE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $604k · revenue +15%
  • WT
    WILD TOMORROW FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $459k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • FF
    FAMS FOR A LIVABLE CLIMATE
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
4
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
5
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
6
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
7
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
8
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
9
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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12
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. 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

102 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. 102 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/102
Grantees still filing
77/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLIMATE RIDE INC: $604,406 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RIDE INCSolarfest Inc: $590,333 · EnvironmentSolarfest IncNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $152,150 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATI…350ORG: $123,765 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $122,113 · EnvironmentCERES INC: $116,325 · Environment+40 more: $1,098,436 · Environment+40 moreTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $954,935 · OtherTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIR…Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition: $193,601 · OtherLos Angeles County Bicycle CoalitionEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $140,048 · OtherSIERRA CLUB: $114,959 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $93,792 · OtherMISSOULA INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION: $159,630 · OtherMISSOULA INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE T…Transformca dba Transform: $109,353 · Other+62 more: $998,162 · Other+62 moreGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $723,091 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATION…San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc: $147,954 · Recreation & SportsSan Francisco …Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition: $101,461 · Recreation & SportsSilicon Valley…YOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $56,235 · Recreation & SportsWashington Area Bicyclist Association: $37,613 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $50,267 · Recreation & SportsThe Climate Center: $444,588 · EducationThe Climat…MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $251,315 · EducationMARIN COUN…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $36,813 · Education+4 more: $46,586 · Education+4 moreWILD TOMORROW FUND: $459,280 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $40,065 · InternationalUNITED CHARITABLE: $289,081 · Philanthropy+1 more: $9,160 · PhilanthropyTIDES CENTER: $193,907 · Human ServicesBEYOND FISTULA: $15,883 · Human Services+1 more: $5,187 · Human Services
Environment$2,807,528Other$2,764,480Recreation & Sports$1,116,621Education$779,302International$499,345Philanthropy$298,241Human Services$214,977

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $954,935 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $723,091 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $604,406 over 4y, 17% of budgetSolarfest Inc: $590,333 over 2y, 87% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND: $459,280 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Climate Center: $444,588 over 4y, 15% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $289,081 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $251,315 over 3y, 11% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $193,907 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles County Bicycle Coalition: $193,601 over 4y, 14% of budgetMISSOULA INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION: $159,630 over 3y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $152,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc: $147,954 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $140,048 over 7y, 2.4% of budget350ORG: $123,765 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $122,113 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCERES INC: $116,325 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $114,959 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTransformca dba Transform: $109,353 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSilicon Valley Bicycle Coalition: $101,461 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $93,792 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $91,851 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $87,942 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER: $79,903 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $76,511 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $74,298 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRID ALTERNATIVES: $74,270 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE SMART MISSOULA INC: $71,688 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $56,235 over 3y, 0.1% of budget1 FOR THE PLANET INC: $55,120 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $47,754 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $46,035 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $43,778 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $42,644 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $40,065 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association: $37,613 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $36,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $36,168 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetActerra Action for a Healthy Planet: $35,099 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetActive San Gabriel Valley: $32,699 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetI CHALLENGE MYSELF INC: $31,950 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSPOKELAND: $29,095 over 2y, 19% of budgetMARINE APPLIED RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION: $27,677 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $27,571 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST: $27,481 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $26,431 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $25,718 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStreets for All Los Angeles: $25,011 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

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.

PatagoniaorgUnited States Energy …The Energy FoundationMarin Community Found…ImpactassetsincThe San Francisco Fou…The Schmidt Family Fo…The James Irvine Foun…Gordon E and Betty I …Tides FoundationResources Legacy FundThe William & Flora H…
PatagoniaorgCA31.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Climate Ride Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Climate Ride Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 138 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home