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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

The Organizations mission is to build sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government, and expand and recognize the rights of people, communities and nature.

$10k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$4,000
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$1.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Community Rights Network$4,0001n/a
Community Earth Alliance$3,0001n/a
Community Rights Lane County$1,0001n/a
Williams County Alliance$1,0001n/a
Washington Community Rights Network$1,0001n/a

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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 Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

How much does Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund give?
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund reported 5 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (40%), Environment (30%), Crime & Legal (20%).
Who are Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Oregon Community Rights Network ($4k), Community Earth Alliance ($3k), Community Rights Lane County ($1k).
Where is Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund based?
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund is based in PA.

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 5 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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