· Private foundation
Co2 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $688k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRIST MAGAZINE | $98,419 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - FRIDAY HARBOR LABS | $84,746 |
| THE CONVERSATION US | $82,650 |
| ACTION FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY (ACE) | $71,250 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $67,687 |
| OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL (OEC) | $66,500 |
| CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE | $59,850 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS - CHISPA AZ | $57,000 |
| CLIMATE CENTRAL | $50,000 |
| EARTH OVERSHOOT - TRANSMEDIAVISION | $50,000 |
| YALE PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION (YPCCC) | $49,362 |
| ECOADAPT | $47,500 |
| URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK (USDN) | $47,025 |
| ZERO FOODPRINT | $45,000 |
| WISCONSIN ACADEMY | $29,250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Co2 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $824k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CBCONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +17%
- CCCLIMATE CENTRAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +54%
- EEcoAdapt3× · 2022–2024 · $98k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +54%
- YPYALE PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATIONone grant, 2022 · $48k
WGBH Educational Foundationone grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the 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 &…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds EcoAdapt ↗
- Who funds THE CONVERSATION US INC ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PREVENTABLE SURPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ↗
- Who funds ZERO FOODPRINT ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Montana Health Professionals for a Healthly Climate ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WATER AND ENERGY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds METHOW VALLEY CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bullitt Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Co2 Foundation 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.
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
- Conservation Biology Institute — 9% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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 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.
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