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

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $104,214, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,380 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,166 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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

MT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
NM
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+15%
+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
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

  • BL
    BRIGHTWAYS LEARNING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +15%
  • EE
    ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $182k · revenue +9% · 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%
  • NE
    NORTHBAY EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +71%
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.

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Earth Education
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2
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
3
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
4
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
5
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.

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6
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
7
Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science & Technology

The mission of exploration elementary charter school for science and technology is to engage students, their families, and the community in the processes of scientific inquiry and the use of innovative technology to develop the social,…

Education
8
Global Community Institute

To ignite a passion for learning that inspires participants to collaborate effectively for a healthy and sustainable future. our vision is to cultivate diverse communities of healthy, creative, and engaged learners and leaders, working…

Education
9
Green Adventure Project School Inc

Green adventure project educates and inspires students of all ages to discover, understand, and connect with the natural world. green adventure project's environmental education programs provide hands-on learning and transformative…

Education
10
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
11
Worldmind Nature Immersion School

Our forest school program operates as a forest kindergarten at its core, with an emphasis on ecological awareness. our classes are designed for children ages 2 through 6.our highly diverse teaching staff will guide children in nature and…

Environment
12
Academy of Environmental Science Inc

To provide a quality ecological based educational program through a rigorous and relevant hands-on curriculum for students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Society for Environmental Education; the most unlike its peers is Brightways Learning. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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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 first funded

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Earth Force Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earth Force Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Northbay Education Inc: 28% 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, 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.

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

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