How much did CLIMATE SOLUTIONS grant in FY2024?

Environment$1.4MEmployment$389kCommunity Improvement$350kEducation$105kCivil Rights$100kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$20kInternational$17kYouth Development$13kOther$644k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

air

2019

transitiontransportationtogetherequitable

2020

imagineblackalternativesculturalbuild poweryouthtransportation

2021

businesseconomyfederalsustainabilityhealthactionoca

2022

advancing carscars rulestransportation advancingbreaking barriersbarriers collaborativeequitable transportation

2023

communicationspolicies

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k7 grants · $145k
$50k–250k4 grants · $406k

$45,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

WABAF DBA CLEAN AND PROSPEROUS INSTITUTE$125,000
OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$106,100
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$100,000
RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE INC$75,000
FORTH MOBILITY FUND$45,000
VERDE$45,000
NW ENERGY COALITION$15,000
OREGON FOR CLIMATE ACTION$10,000
WA BUILD BACK BLACK ALLIANCE (THROUGH FMS GLOBAL STRATEGIES)$10,000
THE WAVE FOUNDATION$10,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE$10,000
CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION INSTITUTE$7,500

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$679k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+23%

Still filing today

93%

94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther

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

WC
WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
6× · 2017–2023 · $343k · revenue +66%
TC
Transportation Choices Coalit
3× · 2019–2021 · $175k · revenue +12%
CE
Clean Energy Transition Inst
2× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +215%

Funded once

WM
WASHINGTON MARITIME BLUEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +242%
RA
ROGUE ACTION CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -16%
SI
Sightline Institute
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +10%

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.

Spark Northwest

Spark Northwest accelerates the equitable transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest through on-the-ground project development and systemic advocacy to remove barriers to locally-generated clean energy.

Environment

Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment

Washington Clean Technology Alliance

CleanTech Alliance represents more than 1000 member companies and organizations across the region.

Community Improvement

Oregon Rural Action Inc

We are working to promote social justice, agricultural and economic sustainability, and stewardship of the region's land, air, and water.

Public Benefit

Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment

Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment

Network of Oregon Watershed Councils

The Network of Oregon Watershed Councils supports the work of Oregons watershed councils to enhance watershed health and benefit their local communities.

Environment

Pacific Northwest Economic Region

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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Northwest Energy Efficiency Council

To eliminate carbon emissions from building energy use through market based thought leadership, education, and advocacy.

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Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services

Economic Opportunity Institute

EOI works to make Washington state a national model of economic opportunity with an economy that truly works for everyone.

Community Improvement

Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Environmental Council and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/35

the rest of the field

11%

3,167/27,638

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.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

19/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$1,380,059Other$692,945Employment$389,210Community Improvement$350,000Education$105,441Civil Rights$100,000Public Benefit$25,000

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.

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.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR37.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Bullitt Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Seeding Justice · Seattle Foundation · Portland Energy Conservation Inc · Stolte Family Foundation · Gray Family 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 organisation CLIMATE SOLUTIONS 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Oregon for Climate Action.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834520266 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Oregon for Climate Action, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Climate Solutions?

Find your warmest path to Climate Solutions through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Climate Solutions?

More from the funding graph

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Climate Solutions?

More from the funding graph