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Earthshare Chapters Inc

Earthshare provides individuals, businesses, and nonprofits with inspiration and tools to work together for a just and sustainable world.

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
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$4.8MEmployment$464kAnimals$266kPhilanthropy$165kInternational$13k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $57,144 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $168,447 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,303 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 $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$7,601
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON$10,983
ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY$9,706
OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP$9,651
OWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER$7,601
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$6,945
AMERICAN CHESTNUT LAND TRUST$6,684
ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY$5,574
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ENVIRONMENTAL FUND OF ARIZONA: $55k → 11%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $13k → 8%RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY -PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: $15k → 8%EARTHSHARE PENNSYLVANIA - CHAPTER: $17k → 22%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $22k → 10%EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA: $30k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $16k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $32k → 14%OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER: $13k → 5%THE WILDS: $12k → 15%EARTHSHARE ILLINOIS - CHAPTER: $28k → 14%EARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY: $22k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $36k → 7%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $50k → 11%C&O CANAL TRUST: $24k → 12%EARTHSHARE MID-ATLANTIC - CHAPTER: $26k → 19%ENVIRONMENTAL FUND OF ARIZONA: $32k → 11%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA: $17k → 10%EARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY: $20k → 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22k → 7%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $43k → 11%C & O CANAL TRUST: $20k → 12%EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA: $13k → 10%EARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY: $12k → 11%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $35k → 11%C&O CANAL TRUST: $17k → 12%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $31k → 11%C & O CANAL TRUST: $15k → 12%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $16k → 11%EARTHSHARE: $743k → 8%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $13k → 11%EARTHSHARE: $447k → 14%EARTHSHARE: $667k → 8%EARTHSHARE: $24k → 14%EARTHSHARE: $638k → 8%POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER: $13k → 14%EARTHSHARE MULTISTATE: $87k → 8%EARTHSHARE: $17k → 14%ES - FLORIDA: $21k → 8%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $13k → 17%EARTHSHARE (ESC): $20k → 8%EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $12k → 14%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $22k → 8%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $17k → 8%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $16k → 8%POTOMAC CONSERVANCY: $12k → 8%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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NH
ID
IL
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OR
OH
PA
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CA
VA
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DC
GA
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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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 41 repeat orgs$489k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
23

Total granted

$1.9M
$484k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+9%

Still filing today

98%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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
    C&O CANAL TRUST INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $76k · revenue +59%
  • EN
    EARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +54%
  • OR
    OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • EC
    EARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $271k · revenue -87%
  • EI
    EARTHSHARE ILLINOIS - CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
  • RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +35%

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
Environment Now
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2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
5
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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6
Earth Conservancy

Earth conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of over 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. it collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education…

Environment
7
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…

Environment
8
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
9
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
10
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
11
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
12
International Conservation Caucus Network

To advance conservation governance through political will and to provide "on the ground" solutions to ensure sustained economic benefits while managing the earth's natural resource wealth for future generations.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Federation of North Carolina Inc Dba Earthshare Nc and the most unlike its peers is Ohio to Erie Trail Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%74%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,499

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

65 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. 65 of the 68 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
44/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARTHSHARE — $3,181,627 · EnvironmentEARTHSHAREANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $217,455 · Environment+40 more — $1,085,579 · Environment+40 moreENVIRONMENTAL FUND FOR ARIZONA INC DBA EFAZ — $95,209 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $89,461 · OtherOYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC — $68,462 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA — $60,327 · OtherALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $49,308 · OtherEARTHSHARE ILLINOIS - CHAPTER — $28,425 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $21,251 · Other+3 more — $17,195 · OtherEARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC — $271,108 · PhilanthropyEARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY INC — $71,210 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,730 · PhilanthropyOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $67,199 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC — $58,838 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $53,510 · AnimalsOWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC — $33,691 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $31,342 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $11,272 · Animals+2 more — $14,831 · AnimalsOhio To Erie Trail Fund — $69,948 · Arts & CultureGlobal Impact — $19,288 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $12,655 · InternationalParks & Trails New York Inc — $19,001 · Recreation & SportsOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $5,403 · Crime & Legal
Environment$4,484,661Other$429,638Philanthropy$348,048Animals$270,683Arts & Culture$69,948International$31,943Recreation & Sports$19,001Crime & Legal$5,403

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 budgetEARTHSHARE — $3,181,627 over 8y, 15% of budgetEARTHSHARE CHAPTERS INC — $271,108 over 1y, 10% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $217,455 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FUND FOR ARIZONA INC DBA EFAZ — $95,209 over 3y, 96% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $89,461 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC — $76,410 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEARTHSHARE NEW JERSEY INC — $71,210 over 5y, 16% of budgetOhio To Erie Trail Fund — $69,948 over 7y, 16% of budgetOYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC — $68,462 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $67,753 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $67,199 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $67,147 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC DBA EARTHSHARE NC — $65,099 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA — $60,327 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC — $58,838 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $53,510 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $50,872 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $49,308 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network — $48,681 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEARTH DAY NEW YORK INC — $47,238 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetNature Forward — $47,219 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK — $47,183 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC — $41,262 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc — $39,159 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetEARTHSHARE WASHINGTON — $37,136 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC — $34,334 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC — $33,691 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $32,214 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF COLUMBUS AND FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS — $31,474 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $31,342 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,162 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $28,987 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25,641 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC — $25,324 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY — $22,644 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $21,809 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact — $19,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParks & Trails New York Inc — $19,001 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $18,773 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $18,033 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC — $16,473 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $14,301 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC — $13,438 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CHESTNUT LAND TRUST INC — $13,252 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $12,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Recycles — $12,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC — $11,655 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $11,272 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.

EarthshareChesapeake Bay TrustPatagoniaorgThe Keith Campbell Fo…Ibm International Fou…National Fish and Wil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Greater Washington Co…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Veverka Family Founda…The Elmo FoundationFrederick Henry Princ…
EarthshareDC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earthshare · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Patagoniaorg · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Veverka Family Foundation · The Elmo Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary 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 Earthshare Chapters 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report 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 68 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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