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Earthsense 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.

$388k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2018–2024.

Environment$2.1MArts & Culture$912kPhilanthropy$520kInternational$273kAnimals$95kCommunity Improvement$50kScience & Tech$30kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER FILM SOCIETY$75,000
YELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC$75,000
MISSION BLUE$50,000
ONLY ONE$42,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND$25,000
CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS FUND$25,000
MUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL$16,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WILD AFRICA$12,000
SWEETWATER MUSIC HALL$10,000
STAND EARTH$10,000
THE REDFORD CENTER$10,000
MOONJELLY FOUNDATION$10,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SAN FRANSISCO$8,500
THE NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $3k → 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

NH
WA
NY
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
FL

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 12% of Earthsense 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. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 36% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Earthsense Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 22 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +137% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$3.0M
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+137%
+15%

Still filing today

91%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CE
    CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $510k · revenue +137%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $265k · revenue +121%
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $185k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • TF
    TED FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • IF
    INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +3%

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
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
2
Reel Earth Films

Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.

Arts & Culture
3
Climate Foundation

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

Science & Tech
4
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
5
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
6
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
7
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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10
Sea Research Foundation Inc

To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.

Animals
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Only One Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flying Elephants Foundation. 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 FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and Shelter
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
36/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FLYING ELEPHANTS FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EnvironmentFLYING ELEPHANTS FOUNDATIONCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $510,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDREDFORD CENTER INC — $135,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INCONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION — $132,500 · EnvironmentONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATIONOO PROJECT — $110,000 · EnvironmentOO PROJECTONLY ONE INC — $82,000 · Environment+8 more — $112,180 · Environment+8 moreUTAH FILM CENTER — $265,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $185,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $175,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETYYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INCWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL — $56,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONALSundance Institute — $39,500 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $46,059 · Arts & CultureROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $520,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILAN…Cambodian Childrens Fund — $105,000 · PhilanthropyCambodian Children…+2 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCREATIVE VISIONS — $55,000 · OtherMISSION BLUE — $50,000 · OtherFIRST — $35,000 · OtherCAMBODIA CHILDRENS FUND INC — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherSpero Worldwide — $15,000 · OtherWILD AFRICA — $12,000 · OtherTED FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+8 more — $42,636 · OtherSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue — $175,000 · Science & TechInternational FIRST Committee Associatio co Toohey Law Group — $20,000 · Science & TechFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $10,000 · Science & TechWILDAID INC — $75,000 · AnimalsTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · AnimalsMercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs — $5,000 · AnimalsLAST ANIMALS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · AnimalsMYRIAD USA INC — $61,800 · International+1 more — $250 · International
Environment$1,681,680Arts & Culture$1,026,559Philanthropy$645,000Other$319,636Science & Tech$205,000Animals$95,000International$62,050

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFLYING ELEPHANTS FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $520,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $510,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $265,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $185,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $175,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue — $175,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $135,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION — $132,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC — $125,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOO PROJECT — $110,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONLY ONE INC — $82,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWILDAID INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $61,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL — $56,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute — $39,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOCEANELDERS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSWEETWATER MUSIC HALL INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetInternational FIRST Committee Associatio co Toohey Law Group — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFuture Brilliance US Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREX FOUNDATION — $5,255 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAST ANIMALS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRICYCLE FOUNDATION — $59 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Code Blue Charitable …Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Seattle FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…The Chicago Community…Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…The San Francisco Fou…Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…
Code Blue Charitable Foundation IncNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Code Blue Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Seattle Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Earthsense 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Earthsense Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Earthsense Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 57 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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