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Earth Rising Foundation

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$40k
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 FY2020–2024.

Environment$1.5MInternational$586kFood & Nutrition$238kCivil Rights$188kCommunity Improvement$172kArts & Culture$125kEducation$108kPhilanthropy$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
$15,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN AMERICA$40,000
OMPRAKASH INC$38,566
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK$30,000
CLIMATE MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC$20,000
LA TIERRA DEL JAGUAR$20,000
GRIST MAGAZINE INC$20,000
HASER INC$20,000
ACRES4CHANGE$20,000
KIDS FOR PEACE INC$20,000
COMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA ACCION LATIN$20,000
JENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL B$20,000
CENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNO$20,000
LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION$20,000
TREES WATER AND PEOPLE$20,000
EARTH CHARTER INDIANA$20,000
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 (FY22–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY & LIFE SERVICES INC: $11k → 9%LUENA FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 16%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $15k → 17%IDEAS FOR US: $20k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20k → 7%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $5k → 9%LUENA FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%IDEAS FOR US: $15k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $14k → 13%IDEAS FOR US: $14k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%INITIATIVE FOR TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $8k → 11%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%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

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Earth Rising Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Earth Rising Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 37 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
40

Total granted

$1.6M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

84%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $891k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +61%
  • SH
    Sustainable Harvest International
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +11%
  • PS
    POWER SHIFT NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAZON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -85%
  • Redhawk Indian Arts Council Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -32%
  • AC
    Action Center on Race & the Economy Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +34%

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
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
2
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
3
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
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
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 Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
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
8
Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…

Public Benefit
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
11
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
12
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ideas for Us Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smile Project Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Women & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …
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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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%2/139
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,426

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.

05the grantee network

127 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. 127 of the 148 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/127
Grantees still filing
50/127
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $115,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETW…Sustainable Harvest International — $80,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Harvest Internatio…Earth Guardians — $74,420 · EnvironmentEarth GuardiansCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INCClimate Mobilization Project Inc — $56,000 · EnvironmentClimate Mobilization Project I…EARTH CHARTER INDIANA INC — $49,500 · EnvironmentEARTH CHARTER INDIANA INCGrist Magazine Inc — $40,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RIDE INC — $40,000 · Environment+27 more — $381,750 · Environment+27 morePOWER SHIFT NETWORK — $75,430 · OtherPOWER SHIFT NETWORKCENTRE FOR LIVELIHOODS AND SUPPORT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -CLISSD — $60,476 · OtherGLOBAL PEARLS INC — $50,150 · OtherTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC — $46,500 · OtherGREEN AMERICA — $120,000 · OtherGREEN AMERICA+63 more — $1,010,769 · Other+63 moreOMPRAKASH INC — $219,541 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & …UNITED CHARITABLE — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CH…THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $64,530 · Human ServicesIDEAS FOR US INC — $49,015 · Human ServicesLuena Foundation — $22,561 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $19,769 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $18,050 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY & LIFE SERVICES INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesGood Work Institute Inc — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,500 · Human ServicesJENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL BUILDING — $50,000 · InternationalSEED PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc — $25,000 · InternationalAndes-Amazon Conservancy — $25,000 · InternationalKids for Peace — $20,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing — $20,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVI — $20,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $12,000 · InternationalFARMSAHEL — $10,000 · InternationalGUATEMALA VILLAGE HEALTH — $7,500 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $30,000 · Community Improvement4MyCity Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementOPAL — $20,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementHASER Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFINDLEY FOUNDATION INC — $19,769 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING DETROIT — $17,000 · Community ImprovementJONES GARDENS — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementLa Tierra del Jaguar — $55,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $18,533 · EducationSONOMA ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationCLIMATE GENERATION — $12,000 · EducationMOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR — $11,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS INC — $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $7,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $5,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN SUSTAINABLE LIVING ASSOC — $4,800 · Education
Environment$896,670Other$1,363,325Philanthropy$289,541Human Services$246,425International$224,500Community Improvement$182,769Education$138,833

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 budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $219,541 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK — $75,430 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetEarth Guardians — $74,420 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $64,530 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetClimate Mobilization Project Inc — $56,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetLa Tierra del Jaguar — $55,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC — $50,150 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL BUILDING — $50,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetEARTH CHARTER INDIANA INC — $49,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetIDEAS FOR US INC — $49,015 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC — $46,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAZON INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network — $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $32,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEED PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRedhawk Indian Arts Council Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGroundswell International Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAndes-Amazon Conservancy — $25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLuena Foundation — $22,561 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKC FARM SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWorldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms USA — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcres4Change Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budget4MyCity Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMycelium Youth Network — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOPAL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONSERVATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKids for Peace — $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVI — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHASER Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCRUSHING COLONIALISM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEARTH HACKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 40% 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.

PatagoniaorgAmalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance IncSolutions Project IncCommon Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationSustainable Markets F…ImpactassetsincWindward FundUnited States Energy …The Schmidt Family Fo…Wallace Global Fund II
PatagoniaorgCA44.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II

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 Rising Foundation 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 · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Ideas for Us Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
  • 4MyCity Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 148 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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$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