How much does Climate Solutions give?

Climate Solutions reported 12 grants totaling $568,699 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Climate Solutions fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (92%), Public Benefit (3%), Community Improvement (2%).

Who are Climate Solutions's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Environmental Council ($641k), Forth ($476k), Verde Inc ($389k).

Does Climate Solutions fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Solutions?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bullitt Foundation, United States Energy Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.

Where is Climate Solutions based?

Climate Solutions is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

Washington · Public charity

Climate Solutions

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS works to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis to create a thriving, equitable northwest, powered by clean energy, inspiring the transition to sustainable prosperity across the nation and beyond.

$569k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 12
Grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 67%
First-time grantees FY2023

Read the full brief

Median grant, FY2024: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 14; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $5.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Climate Solutions funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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	12	$559k	33%
FY2023	3	$127k	67%
FY2022	10	$444k	10%
FY2021	14	$680k	50%
FY2020	13	$576k	54%
FY2019	5	$393k	80%
FY2018	2	$91k	50%
FY2017	8	$158k	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.8MPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$50kEmployment$45kHealth$23kCivil Rights$20kSocial Science$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Environmental Council	$641,016	6	6%
Forth	$475,750	5	4%
Verde Inc	$389,210	5	4%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$343,474	6	2%
Transportation Choices Coalition	$175,000	3	8%
Washington Business Alliance Fund	$125,000	1	1%
Washington Maritime Blue	$100,000	1	3%
Washington Community Alliance	$100,000	1	7%
Resources for the Future Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Clean Energy Transition Institute	$70,441	2	15%

Show all 34 grantees

All grantees of Climate Solutions by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Environmental Council	$641,016	6	6%
Forth	$475,750	5	4%
Verde Inc	$389,210	5	4%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$343,474	6	2%
Transportation Choices Coalition	$175,000	3	8%
Washington Business Alliance Fund	$125,000	1	1%
Washington Maritime Blue	$100,000	1	3%
Washington Community Alliance	$100,000	1	7%
Resources for the Future Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Clean Energy Transition Institute	$70,441	2	15%
Rogue Action Center	$40,000	1	7%
Sightline Institute	$40,000	1	1%
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Inc	$40,000	1	0%
WA Build Back Better Alliance	$35,000	3	n/a
Oregon for Climate Action	$35,000	3	94%
The Wave Foundation	$35,000	3	1%
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$33,000	2	4%
NAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119	$32,500	2	4%
Neighbors for Clean Air	$30,000	2	8%
Nw Energy Coalition	$27,000	2	1%
Washington Business Alliance	$25,000	2	1%
Clean Air Clean Energy Washington	$25,000	1	n/a
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility	$22,662	1	6%
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility	$16,500	2	2%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$12,500	1	0%
Front and Centered	$12,500	1	1%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$10,000	1	1%
Apano Communities United Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Imagine Black Futures	$10,000	1	1%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$10,000	1	0%
Opal	$10,000	1	1%
Columbia Riverkeeper	$7,407	1	0%
Friends of the Columbia Gorge	$7,387	1	0%
Association of Northwest Steelheaders	$6,308	1	2%

Climate Solutions supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 32.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Bullitt FoundationWA42.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bullitt Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Seeding Justice · Washington Conservation Action Education Fund · Wiancko Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

Compare Climate Solutions with peer funders

About Climate Solutions

How much does Climate Solutions give?: Climate Solutions reported 12 grants totaling $568,699 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Climate Solutions fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (92%), Public Benefit (3%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are Climate Solutions's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Environmental Council ($641k), Forth ($476k), Verde Inc ($389k).
Does Climate Solutions fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Climate Solutions?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bullitt Foundation, United States Energy Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Climate Solutions based?: Climate Solutions is based in WA.