Maine · Public charity
Defend Our Health
DEFEND OUR HEALTH works to create a world where all people are thriving, with equal access to safe food and drinking water, healthy homes, and products that are toxic-free and climate-friendly. We'll stand up for this right wherever it is threatened.
- $205k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $919k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Defend Our Health funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $205k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $310k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $259k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $133k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toxic-Free Future F/K/A Washington Toxics Coalition | $565,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Clean Production Action | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| West Harlem Environmental Action Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ecology Center | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Defend Our Health Action | $25,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitable | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rwandese Community Association of Maine | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Women's Voices for the Earth | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Protect South Portland | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Marisla Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Defend Our Health
- How much does Defend Our Health give?
- Defend Our Health reported 3 grants totaling $205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Defend Our Health fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (96%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Defend Our Health's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Toxic-Free Future F/K/A Washington Toxics Coalition ($565k), Clean Production Action ($200k), West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ($140k).
- Does Defend Our Health fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Defend Our Health?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Marisla Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Defend Our Health based?
- Defend Our Health is based in ME.
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