Skip to content
Deployus Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$18M
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%STUDENTS WITH CARBON DIVIDENDS: $665k → 14%ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY INSTITUTE: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
VA
DE
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of Deployus Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Deployus Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 -24%
  • CS
    Clear Skies Texas
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • HM
    HOUGHTON MAIN STREET FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +78%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
2
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
Seec Institute Inc

Convene congress, leading climate and environmental advocates, the private sector, and other experts to facilitate more formal and regular connections between interested parties and stakeholders to secure the biggest climate and clean…

Education
5
Climate Innovation Action Inc

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

Environment
6
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
7
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
8
Climate Foundation

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

Science & Tech
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
Clean Energy Group Inc

Clean energy research and advocacy. Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

Environment
11
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum; 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.
05the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNature Is Nonpartisan Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION ACTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deployus Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deployus Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Deployus’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home