· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $458,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,391,491 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $933,471 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOODIC INST AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK | $114,261 |
| HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC | $93,335 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $57,882 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $51,583 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $47,181 |
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $45,345 |
| SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE | $31,594 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $16,839 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $890k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $567k to organizations and $324k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HIHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue +73%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $267k · revenue +67%
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $251k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEone grant, 2017 · $97k
- WUWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +13%
- PCPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Western Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Yale University · The Nature Conservancy · American Heart Association Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
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.