How much does Cloud Mountain Foundation give?

Cloud Mountain Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $4,542,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 106 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Cloud Mountain Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Public Benefit (17%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Cloud Mountain Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Sustainable Markets Foundation ($2.1M), Bold Alliance Inc ($750k), Center for Media and Democracy Inc ($665k).

Does Cloud Mountain Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cloud Mountain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cloud Mountain Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund Inc.

Where is Cloud Mountain Foundation based?

Cloud Mountain Foundation is based in NY.

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New York · Private foundation

Cloud Mountain Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 105
Grants FY2024: 105
Organizations funded FY2023: 28%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 76 to 106; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 28
Total assets, FY2024: $92M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Cloud Mountain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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	101	$4.3M	16%
FY2023	105	$6.0M	28%
FY2022	76	$2.9M	25%
FY2021	81	$3.0M	20%
FY2020	106	$5.2M	22%
FY2019	94	$4.8M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$15MPublic Benefit$4.6MArts & Culture$2.4MCivil Rights$2.2MFood & Nutrition$825kPhilanthropy$550kHealth$465kCommunity Improvement$465kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$2,143,000	6	7%
Bold Alliance Inc	$750,000	6	61%
Center for Media and Democracy Inc	$665,000	6	14%
The Sheffield Land Trust Inc	$390,000	5	34%
Coalition for Good Governance	$360,000	6	33%
Columbus Institute for Comtemporary Journalism	$355,000	3	n/a
Schumacher Center for a New Economics Inc	$290,000	6	10%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade	$285,000	5	7%
West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc	$280,000	5	9%
Truthout	$260,000	5	3%

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All grantees of Cloud Mountain Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$2,143,000	6	7%
Bold Alliance Inc	$750,000	6	61%
Center for Media and Democracy Inc	$665,000	6	14%
The Sheffield Land Trust Inc	$390,000	5	34%
Coalition for Good Governance	$360,000	6	33%
Columbus Institute for Comtemporary Journalism	$355,000	3	n/a
Schumacher Center for a New Economics Inc	$290,000	6	10%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade	$285,000	5	7%
West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc	$280,000	5	9%
Truthout	$260,000	5	3%
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy	$255,000	5	6%
Free Speech for People Inc	$250,000	6	2%
Deep South Center for Environmental	$240,000	4	2%
Berkshire Environmental Action Team Inc	$230,000	6	24%
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund	$225,000	6	4%
Project on Government Oversight Inc	$225,000	5	1%
Earthworks	$225,000	5	1%
Mountain Watershed Association Inc	$220,000	4	3%
Justice Through Music Project	$210,000	6	14%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc	$210,000	5	2%
Ironbound Community Corporation	$200,000	4	1%
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund	$200,000	2	80%
New Economy Coalition Inc	$200,000	5	3%
Make Art Not War	$195,500	3	n/a
Earth Island Institute Inc	$195,000	5	0%
American Promise Education Fund Inc	$185,000	6	3%
Clean Water Fund	$180,000	5	1%
Opensecrets	$180,000	6	2%
Defend Our Health	$180,000	3	6%
Global Press Institute	$175,000	6	2%
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc	$170,000	6	6%
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives	$160,000	2	1%
Democracy 21	$150,000	6	41%
Coming Clean Inc	$150,000	2	3%
Clean Water for North Carolina Inc	$149,000	6	31%
Metafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute	$145,000	5	3%
Government Accountability Project	$130,000	5	1%
Western Organization of Resource Councils	$120,000	1	4%
International Media Project	$115,000	4	12%
Honor the Earth	$115,000	4	2%
Berkshire Community Land Trust Inc	$100,000	4	36%
Railroad Street Youth Project Inc	$100,000	6	3%
Datakind Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Montana Free Press	$100,000	4	3%
State Democracy Project	$100,000	2	10%
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc	$95,000	5	7%
The Consortium for Independent Journalism Inc	$90,000	3	10%
Greenpeace Inc	$90,000	2	0%
Delaware Riverkeeper Network	$90,000	3	2%
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc	$80,000	3	3%
Housatonic River Initiative Inc	$80,000	6	77%
Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency Inc	$80,000	2	67%
Clean Production Action Inc	$75,000	3	1%
Partnershipforciviljusticefund	$75,000	2	4%
Green Amendments for the Generations	$75,000	2	12%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$75,000	3	1%
Democracy Now Productions Inc	$75,000	6	0%
Independent Media Institute	$70,000	5	2%
Southwest Organizing Project	$70,000	2	2%
Toxics Action Center Inc	$65,000	2	4%
Have Justice-Will Travel Inc	$60,000	6	4%
Netroots Foundation	$60,000	2	6%
Global Energy Monitor	$55,000	2	2%
New York Communities For Change Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Climate Defense Project	$50,000	2	9%
Virginia Organizing Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Concentric Media	$50,000	2	11%
Focus for Democracy Fund	$50,000	1	n/a
The Texas Democracy Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League	$50,000	2	3%
Powerswitch Action	$45,000	2	0%
Third Act Education Fund Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Slingshot Fund Inc	$40,000	2	4%
National Lawyers Guild Inc	$40,000	2	3%
RepresentUs Education Fund	$40,000	2	0%
Center for Common Ground	$40,000	1	1%
Environment America Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Greenpeace Fund Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Center for Environmental Health	$35,000	2	1%
Waterfall Unity Alliance	$35,000	1	7%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc	$30,000	3	0%
People for the American Way	$30,000	3	0%
The Alliance for Democracy Inc	$30,000	6	14%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Wamc	$30,000	6	0%
Women's Voices for the Earth	$25,000	1	2%
Communities United for Action	$25,000	1	46%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Maine People's Resource Center	$25,000	1	0%
Public Health Watch Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Audit USA	$25,000	1	31%
Democracy Counts Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Appalachian Voices	$25,000	1	0%
Institute for Nonprofit News	$25,000	1	0%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Leap	$20,000	2	n/a
The Working World Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Buckeye Environmental Network	$20,000	1	7%
Movement Voter Fund	$10,000	1	0%
The Bail Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Black Women for Wellness	$10,000	1	0%
Physicians for Social Responsibility	$5,000	1	0%
River Valley Organizing	$5,000	1	n/a
Farm Labor Research Project	$5,000	1	1%
Children Education Foundation	$2,500	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Cloud Mountain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 100.

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.

Windward FundDC45.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund · Proteus Fund 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.

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About Cloud Mountain Foundation

How much does Cloud Mountain Foundation give?: Cloud Mountain Foundation reported 105 grants totaling $4,542,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 106 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Cloud Mountain Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Public Benefit (17%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Cloud Mountain Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Sustainable Markets Foundation ($2.1M), Bold Alliance Inc ($750k), Center for Media and Democracy Inc ($665k).
Does Cloud Mountain Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cloud Mountain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cloud Mountain Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund Inc.
Where is Cloud Mountain Foundation based?: Cloud Mountain Foundation is based in NY.