How much does Earthworks give?

Earthworks reported 13 itemized grants totaling $243,900, out of $467,927 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Earthworks fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Civil Rights (5%), Community Improvement (4%).

Who are Earthworks's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sustainable Markets Foundation ($468k), Earthworks Action Fund ($376k), International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani ($163k).

Does Earthworks fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Earthworks?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Family Fund Inc, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking sustainable solutions.

$468k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 53%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $244k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $62,800
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 23; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Earthworks funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$244k	46%
FY2024	17	$466k	53%
FY2023	23	$756k	39%
FY2022	17	$396k	65%
FY2021	11	$169k	45%
FY2020	5	$58k	80%
FY2019	5	$63k	80%
FY2018	6	$213k	83%

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.9MCivil Rights$116kCommunity Improvement$94kArts & Culture$69kHuman Services$52kHealth$47kEducation$42kHousing & Shelter$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$467,500	1	1%
Earthworks Action Fund	$375,668	4	47%
International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani	$162,800	2	9%
Oil Change International Inc	$160,000	2	4%
Beyond Extreme Energy	$117,030	2	59%
Mountain Watershed Association Inc	$67,875	2	3%
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance	$60,000	1	n/a
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc	$57,200	4	1%
Society of Native Nations	$56,570	5	5%
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment	$53,129	3	7%

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All grantees of Earthworks by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$467,500	1	1%
Earthworks Action Fund	$375,668	4	47%
International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani	$162,800	2	9%
Oil Change International Inc	$160,000	2	4%
Beyond Extreme Energy	$117,030	2	59%
Mountain Watershed Association Inc	$67,875	2	3%
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance	$60,000	1	n/a
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc	$57,200	4	1%
Society of Native Nations	$56,570	5	5%
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment	$53,129	3	7%
Tribal Images Museum Inc	$52,000	2	4%
Evansville Tribal Council	$50,000	2	n/a
Western Leaders Network	$47,000	3	6%
Comite Civico del Valle Inc	$46,500	2	1%
Nez Perce Tribe	$36,000	3	n/a
Texas Permian Future Generations	$32,375	2	n/a
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund	$31,000	3	1%
Rgisc Inc	$29,000	4	2%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund	$28,000	3	0%
Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc	$28,000	3	2%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy	$27,710	1	4%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada	$27,000	2	1%
Ethical Metalsmiths	$26,078	2	16%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$23,000	2	0%
Liveable Arlington	$22,600	2	n/a
Honor the Earth	$21,400	1	1%
Institute for Policy Studies	$20,000	1	0%
Ground Game Fund	$20,000	2	0%
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project	$20,000	2	0%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$20,000	1	n/a
Native Village of Ambler	$20,000	1	n/a
Institute for Enhanced Equity	$18,200	2	2%
Big Bend Conservation Alliance	$18,111	1	n/a
Port Arthur Community Action Network	$16,000	1	n/a
Micah Six Eight Mission	$16,000	2	5%
Citizens for Clean Air and Water in Brazoria County	$16,000	2	n/a
Healthy Gulf	$16,000	2	0%
Safe 4 Communities	$16,000	2	6%
Chaparral Community Coalition for Health and Envir	$16,000	1	n/a
Sierra Club Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Mount Triumph Baptist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Mn350	$10,000	1	1%
Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean & Healthy Environment	$8,550	1	n/a
Black Appalachian Coalition	$8,000	1	1%
Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association	$8,000	1	2%
Southern Sector Rising	$8,000	1	0%
Extensive Empowerment Project Inc	$8,000	1	6%
Freeport Haven	$8,000	1	n/a
Oil & Gas Action Network	$8,000	1	0%
Calhoun County Resource Watch	$8,000	1	3%
Native Village of Mary's Igloo	$7,500	1	n/a
Native Village of Teller	$7,500	1	n/a
Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend	$7,000	1	n/a
Great Basin Resource Watch	$6,500	1	3%
DC Action Lab	$6,212	1	n/a

Earthworks supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

Rockefeller Family Fund IncNY41.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Tides Foundation · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · Sierra Club · Healthy Gulf

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.

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About Earthworks

How much does Earthworks give?: Earthworks reported 13 itemized grants totaling $243,900, out of $467,927 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Earthworks fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Civil Rights (5%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Earthworks's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sustainable Markets Foundation ($468k), Earthworks Action Fund ($376k), International Indigenous Fund For Development and Solidarity Batani ($163k).
Does Earthworks fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Earthworks?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Family Fund Inc, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund.
Where is Earthworks based?: Earthworks is based in DC.