How much did EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC grant in FY2023?

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC reported 12 grants totaling $1,416,130 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC based?

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC is based in MA.

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC

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· Public charity

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC

Earthwatch institute connects people with scientists worldwide to conduct environmental field research and empowers them with the knowledge they need to conserve the planet.

$1.4M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$175k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k7 grants · $213k
$50k–250k5 grants · $473k

$44,558

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY$175,120
SCHOODIC INST AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK$98,311
HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC$76,952
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$72,234
WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCE$50,200
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$44,558
THE LIVING DESERT$44,275
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$36,777
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY$29,779
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY$23,344
SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE$17,910
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$16,013

02The need

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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 47% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.8M · 25 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+55%

Still filing today

48%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

HI
HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC
5× · 2018–2023 · $410k · revenue +12%
WC
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
4× · 2018–2023 · $223k · revenue +24%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY
2× · 2022–2023 · $209k · revenue +282%

Funded once

CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $157k · revenue +55%
YALE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $98k · revenue +24%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
one grant, 2019 · $19k

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.

Southwest Research Institute

Benefiting government, industry & the public through innovative science & technology.

Science & Tech

Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Basic research in the following: molecular biology & genetics, neuroscience, and plant biology.

Science & Tech

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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The Wetlands Institute

The mission of the wetlands institute is to promote appreciation, understanding and stewardship of wetland and coastal ecosystems through programs in research, conservation and education.

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California Academy of Sciences

To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration

Arts & Culture

Society for Conservation Biology

To advance the science and practice of conserving earth's biological diversity.

Environment

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Zoological Society of San Diego

An international, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the san diego zoo and the san diego zoo safari park, we integrate wildlife health and care, science, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions.

Animals

Westminster University

Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and the most unlike its peers is Western University of Health Sciences. 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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

12/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,960,331Animals$743,073Environment$685,235Education$429,943Arts & Culture$157,899International$157,491

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

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Nature Conservancy · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 organisation EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 850358519 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Earthwatch Institute Inc?

Find your warmest path to Earthwatch Institute Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Earthwatch Institute Inc?

More from the funding graph

EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Earthwatch Institute Inc?

More from the funding graph