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Deployus Inc

Mobilize, coordinate, and strengthen the impact of the field of organizations advancing conservative climate leadership and bipartisan climate solutions.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$18M
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$280,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,152,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION$1,225,000
JOSEPH RAINEY CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$1,210,000
CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK$1,150,000
CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC$845,000
CONSERVATIVE COALITION FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS$775,000
R STREET INSTITUTE$675,000
STUDENTS WITH CARBON DIVIDENDS$665,000
SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (CICE)$560,000
AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION$545,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$375,000
TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$360,000
AMERICAN WATER SECURITY PROJECT$305,000
EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$280,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$225,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATURE IS NONPARTISAN: $100k → 10%CERES INC: $75k → 16%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 8%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (CICE): $560k → 10%STUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS (S4CD): $183k → 17%TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $360k → 10%JOSEPH RAINEY CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1.2M → 14%FEDERATION FOR ADVANCED SEWAGE TREATMENT (DBA AWSP): $115k → 12%AMERICAN WATER SECURITY PROJECT: $305k → 13%CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK: $1.1M → 16%EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $280k → 5%CONSERVATIVE COALITION FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $775k → 4%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS: $100k → 7%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (CICE): $80k → 10%STUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS (S4CD): $148k → 17%FEDERATION FOR ADVANCED SEWAGE TREATMENT (DBA AWSP): $75k → 12%CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK: $550k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $375k → 6%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (CICE): $75k → 10%STUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS: $100k → 17%FEDERATION FOR ADVANCED SEWAGE TREATMENT (DBA AWSP): $55k → 12%CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK: $200k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $209k → 6%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION: $1.2M → 14%CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK: $150k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $53k → 6%CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $845k → 14%REP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (DBA CRS): $105k → 6%R STREET INSTITUTE: $675k → 14%REP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (DBA CRS): $90k → 6%AMERICAN FLOOD COALITION: $545k → 14%REP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (DBA CRS): $75k → 6%R STREET INSTITUTE: $440k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $170k → 14%R STREET INSTITUTE: $110k → 14%ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%STUDENTS WITH CARBON DIVIDENDS: $665k → 14%CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%STUDENTS WITH CARBON DIVIDENDS: $290k → 14%ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT: $230k → 14%CONSERVAMERICA: $200k → 14%AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT: $180k → 14%AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT INC: $125k → 14%AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT: $55k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $225k → 14%ADVANCED ENERGY INSTITUTE (TAEBA): $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 23% of Deployus Inc’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.

Deployus Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 14 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$12M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

  • CE
    Conservative Energy Network
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +11%
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +6%
  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CI
    CERES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -8%
  • CS
    Clear Skies Texas
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • HM
    HOUGHTON MAIN STREET FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc

Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.

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2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future

CCEF works with policymakers and stakeholders across the nation to promote policies that secure affordable, reliable, and increasingly efficient and clean energy. Commonsense, market-driven energy policies will create local jobs, spark…

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5
Climate Rights International

CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Climate Innovation Action Inc

To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.

Environment
8
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

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
9
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

Environment
10
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
11
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
12
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Leadership Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Federation for Advanced Sewage Treatment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%46%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Conservative Energy Network — $2,050,000 · EnvironmentConservative Energy NetworkSTUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS INC — $1,385,750 · EnvironmentSTUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS INCAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $1,305,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INCCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $845,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INCFederation for Advanced Sewage Treatment — $585,000 · EnvironmentFederation for Advanced Sewage TreatmentAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC — $545,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INCREP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $295,000 · EnvironmentAdvanced Energy Institute — $275,000 · Environment+7 more — $382,500 · EnvironmentGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,661,750 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVER…R STREET INSTITUTE — $1,395,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE+1 more — $30,000 · EducationTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $795,000 · OtherTHE SAN FRANCISCO …The Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions — $775,000 · OtherThe Conservative C…Evangelical Environmental Network — $312,750 · OtherEvangelical Enviro…Rep America — $200,000 · OtherRep AmericaFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $130,000 · OtherTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute — $420,000 · OtherTexas Conservative…CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $225,000 · OtherCENTER FOR STRATEG…+2 more — $75,000 · OtherSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $2,152,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valle…JOSEPH RAINEY CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $1,230,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT — $620,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS & CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $360,000 · Community ImprovementCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$7,668,250Education$3,086,750Other$2,932,750Philanthropy$2,152,000Social Science$1,230,000Public Benefit$620,000Community Improvement$460,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $2,152,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Energy Network — $2,050,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,661,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $1,395,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR CARBON DIVIDENDS INC — $1,385,750 over 5y, 87% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $1,305,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetJOSEPH RAINEY CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $1,230,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $845,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $795,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetThe Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions — $775,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT — $620,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetFederation for Advanced Sewage Treatment — $585,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN FLOOD COALITION INC — $545,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute — $420,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS & CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network — $312,750 over 2y, 17% of budgetREP ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $295,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute — $275,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $130,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNature Is Nonpartisan Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCERES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOUGHTON MAIN STREET FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION ACTION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INC — $22,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS FORUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Environmental Defense…United States Energy …The Energy FoundationClean Future Forum IncBreakthrough Energy F…The William & Flora H…The Cynthia & George …Catena FoundationThe Pew Charitable Tr…Silicon Valley Commun…Centerline Liberties …High Tide Foundation
Environmental Defense Fund IncorporatedNY27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Clean Future Forum Inc · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Catena Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Centerline Liberties Inc · High Tide 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 Deployus Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Deployus Inc?

Find your warmest path to Deployus Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines