· Public charity
Earthshare
EARTHSHARE provides individuals, businesses, and nonprofits with inspiration and tools to work together for a just and sustainable world.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $387k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT SCHOOL OF LAW | $1,000,000 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS | $275,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $201,492 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $117,440 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $67,874 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $43,015 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $40,969 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $37,225 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $29,588 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $24,274 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY PENNSYLVANIA | $23,200 |
| OREGON PARKS FOREVER | $22,366 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $20,770 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $18,421 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $16,272 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +62%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $856k · revenue +41%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $548k · revenue +51%
Funded once
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCYgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $123k · revenue +35%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $109k · revenue +40%- CEChildren's Environmental Health Networkgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +35%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
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…
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT NEXT INC ↗
- Who funds Conservation Nation ↗
- Who funds Beyond Pesticides ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Environmental Law Institute ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Earthshare funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earthshare. Bigger dots raise more.
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc: 21% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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