· Private foundation
Earth
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HEALTH DEFENSE | $15,000 |
| LIVING HANDS AND WATERS | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | $5,000 |
| GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $5,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ICAN | $4,000 |
| MAS FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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 Earth’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund2× · 2020–2021 · $64k · revenue +51%
- GAGovernment Accountability Project2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +50%
- DNDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +21%
Funded once
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +138%- TWTHE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +26%
- 7G7TH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Earthjustice is a premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. we wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy,…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…
Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.
Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds Government Accountability Project ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE COAT WASTE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE INC ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Earth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earth. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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