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Ecoamerica

ECOAMERICA moves society toward climate solutions by engaging and supporting trusted national institutions to inspire and empower their millions of members in local communities across america to visibly act and advocate for ambitious, just climate mitigation, resilience, and restoration.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $185,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $260,411 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,411 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIMATE RESOLVE$50,000
SOLON CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING$25,000
SILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION$10,000
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-LA (PSR-LA)$10,000
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
GRASSROOTS CONSERVATION (FOR PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL)$10,000
HARVARD C-CHANGE$10,000
GIRL PLUS ENVIRONMENT$10,000
FAITH ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS$10,000
CIVIC WELL( FOR CIVIC SPARK)$10,000
KENNEBUNKPORT CLIMATE INITIATIVE (FOR THE CLIMATE INITIATIVE)$10,000
SAN DIEGO 350 (FOR YOUTH4CLIMATE)$10,000
GREEN UMBRELLA$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION: $10k → 8%SAN DIEGO 350 (FOR YOUTH4CLIMATE): $10k → 11%CIVIC WELL( FOR CIVIC SPARK): $10k → 12%CLIMATE RESOLVE: $50k → 14%GIRL PLUS ENVIRONMENT: $10k → 13%GREEN UMBRELLA: $10k → 16%GRASSROOTS CONSERVATION (FOR PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL): $10k → 5%BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 11%SOLON CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING: $25k → 15%PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-LA (PSR-LA): $10k → 14%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 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
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Climate Parliament Inc

Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.

International
4
Climate Change Education Project
Education
5
Environment Now
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6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
8
350 Bay Area Action

Mission: We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice. Our vision is that all who live in the Bay…

Environment
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
11
350 Bay Area

We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Environment
12
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve; the most unlike its peers is Solon Center for Research and Publishing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLIMATE RESOLVE: $50,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RESOLVESILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIONGrassroots Conservation a NJ Non Profit Corporation: $10,000 · EnvironmentGrassroots Conservation a NJ Non Profit CorporationGREEN UMBRELLA: $10,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLASANDIEGO350: $10,000 · EnvironmentSANDIEGO350Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions: $10,000 · EnvironmentFaith Alliance for Climate SolutionsSolon Center For Research And Publishing: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSolon Center Fo…HOPEWELL VALLEY REGIONAL SD: $10,000 · OtherPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $10,000 · InternationalCivicwell: $10,000 · Public BenefitGirl Plus Environment Corporation: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE CLIMATE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · Education
Environment$100,000Arts & Culture$25,000Other$10,000International$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLIMATE RESOLVE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSolon Center For Research And Publishing: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGrassroots Conservation a NJ Non Profit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetCivicwell: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGirl Plus Environment Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSANDIEGO350: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE CLIMATE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Alliance for Climate Solutions: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

PatagoniaorgDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
PatagoniaorgCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ecoamerica funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ecoamerica. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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