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Earthshare Washington

EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON's mission is to unite people, organizations and resources to champion washington's environmental future with a vision of everyone working together for thriving communities and a healthy environment.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$1.1MEnvironment$563kRecreation & Sports$25kFood & Nutrition$13kAnimals$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$18,133
Median grant
2
States reached
$193k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION$20,114
EARTHSHARE (ESC)$18,133
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS$7,432
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EARTHSHARE: $132k → 14%CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $17k → 9%Climate Solutions: $32k → 9%EarthShare National: $320k → 8%EARTHSHARE: $86k → 14%WA Trails Assoc: $61k → 9%Climate Solutions: $12k → 9%EarthShare National: $195k → 8%EARTHSHARE (ESC): $18k → 14%CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $15k → 9%EarthShare National: $177k → 8%WA Trails Assoc: $52k → 9%EARTHSHARE: $62k → 8%Climate Solutions: $10k → 9%EarthShare National: $47k → 8%WA Trails Assoc: $43k → 9%EarthShare National: $43k → 8%CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $10k → 9%WA Trails Assoc: $38k → 9%Washington Environmental Council: $8k → 9%WA Trails Assoc: $36k → 9%Washington Environmental Council: $8k → 9%Mountains to Sound Greenway T: $29k → 9%CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $7k → 9%Mountains to Sound Greenway T: $27k → 9%Transportation Choices Coalition: $5k → 9%Mountains to Sound Greenway T: $12k → 9%Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: $7k → 9%Earth Corps: $6k → 9%Cascade Bicycle Club: $5k → 9%Seattle Tilth: $7k → 9%WA Wild: $7k → 9%WA Wild: $7k → 9%Seattle Tilth: $6k → 9%Forterra: $8k → 9%Forterra: $8k → 9%Forterra: $7k → 9%Forterra: $7k → 9%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $28k → 9%Mountains to Sound Greenway T: $22k → 9%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $17k → 9%Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: $7k → 9%TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $9k → 9%Mountains to Sound Greenway T: $8k → 9%Audubon Washington: $5k → 9%Transportation Choices Coalition: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$654k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WT
    WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +96%
  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +153%
  • TM
    The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
    5× · 2017–2021 · $98k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • E
    Earthcorpsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +37%
  • WB
    WASHINGTON BIKES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -24%
  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
2
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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3
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
4
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
5
Washington Forest Protection Association

Wfpa advocates and advnances sustainable forestry in washington to protect and enhance the economic investment of private working forest landowners.

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6
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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7
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
8
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
9
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
10
Council of Western State Foresters

The council of western state foresters (cwsf) promotes the conservation, protection, and sustainable management of forests for today and generations to come by leading collective action, fostering learning, facilitating resource sharing,…

Environment
11
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
12
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Conservation Action Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARTHSHARE: $1,079,031 · EnvironmentEARTHSHAREThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $97,800 · EnvironmentThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust+5 more: $88,211 · Environment+5 moreWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $332,289 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATIO…CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $107,866 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $20,162 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON WILD: $13,331 · AnimalsEarthcorps: $6,045 · InternationalWASHINGTON BIKES: $5,287 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$1,265,042Other$440,155Community Improvement$20,162Animals$13,331International$6,045Recreation & Sports$5,287

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEARTHSHARE: $1,079,031 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $332,289 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $107,866 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $97,800 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $29,994 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $24,372 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION: $20,162 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $15,818 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON WILD: $13,331 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $12,796 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarthcorps: $6,045 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON BIKES: $5,287 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,231 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bullitt FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Seattle FoundationThe Russell Family Fo…The Hugh and Jane Fer…Grousemont FoundationThe Rose Foundation f…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Kaleidoscope Foundati…Laird Norton Family F…Patagoniaorg
The Bullitt FoundationWA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Laird Norton Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Earthshare Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earthshare Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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