California · Public charity
Earth Island Institute Inc
Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower (1912-2000) to confront the unprecedented threats to life on Earth. The Organization supports environmental initiatives that are urgent...
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $202,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Earth Island Institute Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $1.6M | 76% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $1.8M | 83% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $325k | 76% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $270k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $963k | 93% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $594k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $138k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $235k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Peoples Movement | $1,185,572 | 2 | n/a |
| The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy | $459,569 | 1 | 41% |
| Stand | $262,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Global Poverty Project Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Climate Access Inc | $174,650 | 2 | 44% |
| Global Energy Monitor | $158,708 | 2 | 24% |
| The Kansas Rural Center | $152,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $142,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Marbleseed Inc | $139,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Renewing the Countryside | $139,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 168 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Earth Island Institute Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Farm Aid Inc · Windward Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Resources Legacy Fund
How this is measured
About Earth Island Institute Inc
- How much does Earth Island Institute Inc give?
- Earth Island Institute Inc reported 44 itemized grants totaling $1,642,639, out of $3,552,046 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Earth Island Institute Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Civil Rights (20%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Earth Island Institute Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indigenous Peoples Movement ($1.2M), The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy ($460k), Stand ($263k).
- Does Earth Island Institute Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Earth Island Institute Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farm Aid Inc, Windward Fund, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Earth Island Institute Inc based?
- Earth Island Institute Inc is based in CA.
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