Washington · Private foundation
Co2 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $71,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Co2 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $2.2M | 66% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.0M | 83% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $304k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $335k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $159 | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $50 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Central Inc | $290,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Conservation Biology Institute | $236,650 | 4 | 2% |
| Grist Magazine Inc | $195,469 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $189,744 | 1 | 0% |
| The Conversation US Inc | $182,000 | 2 | 1% |
| EcoAdapt | $171,250 | 4 | 3% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $123,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | $97,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Arizona University Foundation | $95,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Urban Institute | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Co2 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Co2 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Co2 Foundation
- How much does Co2 Foundation give?
- Co2 Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $2,251,048 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Co2 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Education (8%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Co2 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Climate Central Inc ($290k), Conservation Biology Institute ($237k), Grist Magazine Inc ($195k).
- Does Co2 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Co2 Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Co2 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bullitt Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Co2 Foundation based?
- Co2 Foundation is based in WA.
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