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Earth Force Inc

Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
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 FY20182025.

Environment$283kEducation$230kRecreation & Sports$21kFood & Nutrition$12kHealth$8kCivil Rights$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $104,214 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,166 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$33,469
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Environmental Education Assoc$37,851
Brightways Learning$33,469
Utah Society for Environmenta$32,894
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Brightways Learning: $43k → 9%Manchester Academic Charter S: $17k → 11%Bella Mente Charter School: $7k → 11%Onandaga Cortland Madison BOC: $5k → 15%Center for Democracy & Civic: $8k → 14%Cacapon Institute: $8k → 16%Experience Learning: $15k → 16%Environmental Education Assoc: $47k → 19%Jamesburg Public School: $7k → 8%Fairfax County Public Schools: $14k → 6%University of Virginia: $8k → 7%Boxerwood Education Associati: $8k → 12%NorthBay Education Inc: $8k → 10%Brightways Learning: $38k → 9%Experience Learning: $6k → 16%Environmental Education Assoc: $41k → 19%Rachel Carson Middle School: $8k → 6%Brightways Learning: $33k → 9%Environmental Education Assoc: $38k → 19%Rachel Carson Middle School: $7k → 6%Brightways Learning: $33k → 9%Environmental Education Assoc: $24k → 19%Fairfax County Public Schools: $6k → 6%Brightways Learning: $33k → 9%Environmental Education Assoc: $24k → 19%Brightways Learning: $25k → 9%Environmental Education Assoc: $9k → 19%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

MT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
NM

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$486k · 5 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$486k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+60%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • BL
    BRIGHTWAYS LEARNING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +18%
  • EE
    ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $182k · revenue +46% · 31% of their budget
  • US
    UTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue +236% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • MA
    MANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +22%
  • BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +79%
  • CI
    CACAPON INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +60%

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
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center

To develop a citizenry that has the knowledge, skills, commitment, and motivation to work together for a quality environment.

Environment
2
Experiential Environmental Education Inc

To improve student achievement and increase environmental stewardship through project-based learning and balanced literacy. Students will be engaged in hands-on environmental projects that will provide an authentic context for reading,…

Education
3
Maine Environmental Education Association

The maine environmental education association enhances and amplifies the efforts of individuals and organizations building environmental awareness, appreciation, understanding and action in maine.

4
Berkwood School

Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…

Education
5
Illinois Environmental Council Education

To educate the public about environmental issues.

Environment
6
Ivy Bound Academy

Education

Education
7
Irvine Natural Science Center Inc

We all thrive outdoors. we encourage lifelong engagement with the natural world through environmental learning and green living. at irvine, we inspire people to explore, respect and protect nature.

Environment
8
Environmental Charter Schools

To reimagine public education in low-income communities of color to prepare conscious, critical thinkers who are equipped to graduate from college and create a more equitable and sustainable world.

Education
9
Museum School

The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.

Education
10
The Environmental Charter School At Frick Park

To educate each student to high academic learning standards using a themed curriculum that will foster knowledge, love of, and respect for the environment and the will to preserve it for future generations.

Education
11
Explore Ecology

Explore ecology empowers our community to proect and preserve the planet with innovative environmental education and nature-based learning.

Environment
12
The Learning Community School Inc

Education of students grades kindergarten thru 8th offering experiential learning, personalized instruction (10:1 student teacher ratio), team conflict resolution, high academic standards and multi age classes and mentorship.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Experience Learning Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS — $182,164 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOISUTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION — $42,846 · OtherUTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONTHOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY — $34,594 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY+5 more — $34,309 · Other+5 moreBRIGHTWAYS LEARNING — $206,108 · EducationBRIGHTWAYS LEARNINGMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $16,686 · EducationMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL+1 more — $7,245 · EducationEXPERIENCE LEARNING INC — $20,500 · Recreation & SportsBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHBAY EDUCATION INC — $7,500 · Health
Other$293,913Education$230,039Recreation & Sports$20,500Arts & Culture$8,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIGHTWAYS LEARNING — $206,108 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS — $182,164 over 6y, 31% of budgetUTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION — $42,846 over 2y, 52% of budgetEXPERIENCE LEARNING INC — $20,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $16,686 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCACAPON INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBELLA MENTE CHARTER SCHOOL — $7,245 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Earth Force 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 28%
  • Northbay Education Inc28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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