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Earth Island Institute Inc

Earth Island Institute (the Organization) was founded in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$203k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Environment$2.6MCivil Rights$1.3MFood & Nutrition$449kEducation$404kInternational$310kHuman Services$299kHealth$228kPhilanthropy$216kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 44 grants below total $1,642,639 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,552,046 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,909,407 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stand$202,500
Marbleseed$139,000
Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development$139,000
Renewing the Countryside$139,000
Kansas Rural Center 1758$139,000
Missouri Rural Crisis Center 1877$139,000
Indigenous Peoples Movement$120,372
Trade Justice Education Fund 1693$90,000
Climate Access$81,650
GreenFaith 967$60,000
Lake Baikal Heritage Foundation$58,480
Commonweal$25,000
Sixth Street Community Center Inc 1968$20,000
SF Parks Alliance$18,637
Healthy Homes Coalition of West Michigan$15,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sasha Bruce Youthworks Inc: $13k → 14%Samoa Pacific Development Corporation: $10k → 12%Wind Of The Spirit: $15k → 4%Student Organizing Inc: $8k → 16%Commonweal: $25k → 8%The Tides Center: $24k → 10%Sixth Street Community Center Inc 1968: $20k → 17%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

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $1.8M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$715k · 41% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

East Asia and the Pacific$590k · 34% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$284k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

South America$166k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 31 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
108

Total granted

$3.0M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+25%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $957k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • CA
    Climate Access Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +85% · 44% of their budget
  • GE
    Global Energy Monitor
    2× · 2018–2020 · $159k · revenue ×15
  • TK
    THE KANSAS RURAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2025 · $152k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $460k · revenue +236% · 41% of their budget
  • GP
    GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • UF
    USDA Forest Service
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
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
3
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
4
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
5
Climate Foundation

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

Science & Tech
6
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
7
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
8
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
9
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
12
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Food PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Social ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%25%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/172
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,393

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

144 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 174 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)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/144
Grantees still filing
90/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY — $459,569 · EnvironmentTHE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCYSTAND — $262,500 · EnvironmentSTANDGlobal Energy Monitor — $158,708 · EnvironmentGlobal Energy MonitorTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $142,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $139,000 · EnvironmentIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & D…Upstream Policy Institute Inc — $80,000 · EnvironmentLAKE BAIKAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $74,300 · Environment+36 more — $785,002 · Environment+36 moreINDIGENOUS PEOPLES MOVEMENT — $1,185,572 · OtherINDIGENOUS PEOPLES MOVEMENTTHE KANSAS RURAL CENTER — $152,000 · OtherMissouri Rural Crisis Center — $139,000 · Other+93 more — $1,547,494 · Other+93 moreRENEWING THE COUNTRYSIDE — $139,000 · EducationCOMPLIANCE AND CAPACITY SKILLS INTE — $110,748 · EducationNavajo Preparatory School Inc — $21,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $20,000 · EducationThe Black Culinarian Alliance Inc — $20,000 · EducationThe Swaliga Foundation — $15,000 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $14,000 · Education+8 more — $74,777 · EducationTIDES CENTER — $149,190 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEAL — $25,000 · Human ServicesSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWIND OF THE SPIRIT IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $12,756 · Human ServicesTHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO — $10,000 · Human ServicesSamoa Pacific Development Corporation — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,900 · Human ServicesGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $200,000 · Social ScienceMARBLESEED INC — $139,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $18,500 · HealthNORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC — $10,000 · HealthNONTOXIC CERTIFIED INC — $8,000 · HealthHoola Veteran Services — $6,500 · HealthEMPOWER HOUSE SA — $6,500 · HealthNot One More Project — $6,500 · HealthClimate Access Inc — $174,650 · Science & TechCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Science & Tech
Environment$2,101,579Other$3,024,066Education$414,525Human Services$287,846Social Science$200,000Health$195,000Science & Tech$189,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JMT WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY — $459,569 over 1y, 41% of budgetSTAND — $262,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClimate Access Inc — $174,650 over 2y, 44% of budgetGlobal Energy Monitor — $158,708 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE KANSAS RURAL CENTER — $152,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $149,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $142,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARBLESEED INC — $139,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetIOWA VALLEY RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $139,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCOMPLIANCE AND CAPACITY SKILLS INTE — $110,748 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC — $80,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLAKE BAIKAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $74,300 over 3y, 49% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $72,667 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON VISION — $63,872 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEST OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PROJECT (WOEIP) — $61,072 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCalifornians Against Waste Foundation — $60,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetRenew Missouri Advocates — $56,319 over 1y, 11% of budgetEARTHON FOUNDATION USA — $54,026 over 1y, 27% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $40,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $37,015 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $35,863 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc — $34,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSANTA MONICA BAY RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $34,493 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE — $33,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetZero Waste Washington — $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I — $27,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONWEAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY — $23,852 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $23,352 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA RESOURCE COUNCIL — $23,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $22,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNavajo Preparatory School Inc — $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUFW FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Black Culinarian Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $19,225 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $18,500 over 3y, 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Farm Aid IncWindward FundPatagoniaorgThe Schmidt Family Fo…Clif Family FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…United States Energy …Natural Resources Def…Rsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Resources Legacy Fund
Farm Aid IncMA45.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Island Institute 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts Inc — 40% of income from government
  • World Farmers Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Oregon Tilth Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
  • Samoa Pacific Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Huub Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
  • Urbanpromise Trenton Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
37report 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

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 174 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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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