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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VERDE$45,000
FORTH MOBILITY FUND$45,000
NW ENERGY COALITION$15,000
OREGON FOR CLIMATE ACTION$10,000
THE WAVE FOUNDATION$10,000
WA BUILD BACK BLACK ALLIANCE (THROUGH FMS GLOBAL STRATEGIES)$10,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE$10,000
CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION INSTITUTE$7,500
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 (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $10k → 9%PAALF: $10k → 12%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$664k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

15
15

Total granted

$2.4M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+23%

Still filing today

93%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2017–2023 · $343k · revenue +66%
  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $175k · revenue +97%
  • CE
    Clean Energy Transition Institute
    2× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • WM
    WASHINGTON MARITIME BLUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +65%
  • RA
    ROGUE ACTION CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -23%
  • SI
    Sightline Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +32%
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
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
3
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
4
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
5
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
6
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
7
Cascade Climate Inc

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

Environment
8
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
11
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
12
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Conservation Action Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Forth. 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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
17/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Oregon Environmental Council: $641,016 · EnvironmentOregon Environmental CouncilWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $343,474 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUNDWASHINGTON MARITIME BLUE: $100,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON MARITIME BLUEResources for the Future Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentResources for the Future Inc+8 more: $220,569 · Environment+8 moreForth: $475,750 · OtherForthWA Build Back Better Alliance: $35,000 · OtherNAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119: $32,500 · OtherNW ENERGY COALITION: $27,000 · OtherCLEAN AIR CLEAN ENERGY WASHINGTON: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $97,695 · Other+9 moreVerde Inc: $389,210 · EmploymentVerde IncTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $175,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSPORTATIO…WASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE FUND: $125,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON BU…ROGUE ACTION CENTER: $40,000 · Community ImprovementROGUE ACTION …+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementClean Energy Transition Institute: $70,441 · EducationOregon for Climate Action: $35,000 · EducationWashington Community Alliance: $100,000 · Civil RightsWASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$1,380,059Other$692,945Employment$389,210Community Improvement$350,000Education$105,441Civil Rights$100,000Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Environmental Council: $641,016 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetForth: $475,750 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetVerde Inc: $389,210 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $343,474 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $175,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE FUND: $125,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON MARITIME BLUE: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWashington Community Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClean Energy Transition Institute: $70,441 over 2y, 15% of budgetROGUE ACTION CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSightline Institute: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOregon for Climate Action: $35,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetTHE WAVE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $33,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119: $32,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNeighbors for Clean Air: $30,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetNW ENERGY COALITION: $27,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility: $22,662 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $16,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFront and Centered: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper: $7,407 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $7,387 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS: $6,308 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

The Bullitt FoundationUnited States Energy …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Schmidt Family Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Collins FoundationStolte Family Foundat…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…Seeding JusticeWashington Conservati…Wiancko Charitable Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Rogue Action Center: 29% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Association of Northwest Steelheaders: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 35 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 endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home