Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Earthshare
EARTHSHARE provides individuals, businesses, and nonprofits with inspiration and tools to work together for a just and sustainable world.
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,066
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Earthshare funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 36 | $1.9M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $526k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $979k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $736k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.4M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $1.7M | 9% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $2.1M | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $1,668,470 | 9 | 0% |
| Vermont School of Law | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $856,292 | 9 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $756,944 | 9 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $547,564 | 9 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $476,688 | 9 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $392,282 | 9 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $345,067 | 9 | 0% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $316,245 | 9 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $290,711 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 81 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Earthshare supplied at peak.
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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: Earthshare Chapters Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · California Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Network for Good · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
About Earthshare
- How much does Earthshare give?
- Earthshare reported 40 itemized grants totaling $2,164,062, out of $5,542,244 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Earthshare fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Animals (15%), Education (8%).
- Who are Earthshare's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($1.7M), Vermont School of Law ($1.0M), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($856k).
- Does Earthshare fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Earthshare?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earthshare Chapters Inc, Walton Family Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Earthshare based?
- Earthshare is based in DC.
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