How much does Ecology Center give?

Ecology Center reported 25 itemized grants totaling $433,500, out of $450,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Ecology Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (73%), Health (10%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Ecology Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Allied Media Projects Inc ($177k), Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($137k), Clean and Healthy New York ($123k).

Does Ecology Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ecology Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated.

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Ecology Center

The ECOLOGY CENTER is a michigan-based nonprofit environmental organization that develops innovative solutions for healthy people and a healthy planet.

$451k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 31%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $434k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $60,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 13; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Ecology Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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
FY2024still arriving	24	$434k	54%
FY2023	13	$338k	31%
FY2022	11	$221k	27%
FY2021	11	$291k	55%
FY2020	7	$180k	57%
FY2019	5	$105k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$1.1MHealth$156kHuman Services$101kAnimals$100kHousing & Shelter$33kEducation$28kArts & Culture$8k

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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Allied Media Projects Inc	$176,711	4	0%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$136,621	4	2%
Clean and Healthy New York	$123,000	5	8%
National Wildlife Federation	$108,000	4	0%
Ohio Healthy Homes Network	$100,500	5	56%
Women for a Healthy Environment	$93,000	4	4%
Clean Water Fund	$90,000	3	1%
Learning Disabilities Association of America	$80,000	3	4%
Wayne State University	$68,000	3	n/a
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$60,000	3	3%

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All grantees of Ecology Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Allied Media Projects Inc	$176,711	4	0%
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$136,621	4	2%
Clean and Healthy New York	$123,000	5	8%
National Wildlife Federation	$108,000	4	0%
Ohio Healthy Homes Network	$100,500	5	56%
Women for a Healthy Environment	$93,000	4	4%
Clean Water Fund	$90,000	3	1%
Learning Disabilities Association of America	$80,000	3	4%
Wayne State University	$68,000	3	n/a
Progress Michigan Education Inc	$60,000	3	3%
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition	$60,000	1	3%
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum	$55,000	1	11%
The Green Door Initiative	$51,333	4	5%
Sierra Club	$50,000	1	0%
Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation	$37,500	3	0%
Healthy Homes Coalition of West Michigan Inc	$33,000	3	3%
Kitchen Table Campaigns	$30,000	1	4%
Sierra Club Michigan	$27,500	1	n/a
Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision	$26,333	2	1%
Transportation Riders United Inc	$20,000	1	6%
Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition	$17,500	1	n/a
Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Inc	$16,500	1	0%
Great Lakes Environmental Law Cente	$15,000	1	2%
Clean Fuels Michigan	$9,500	1	3%
Clean Water Action	$8,000	1	0%
Black Environmental Leaders Association	$8,000	1	1%
Walnut Way Conservation Corporation	$8,000	1	0%
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Southeastern Mi Health Association	$8,000	1	0%
Elevate Energy	$8,000	1	0%
Community Treehouse Center Detroit	$7,500	1	n/a
Huron River Watershed Council	$7,500	1	0%
Warrenconner Development Coalition	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of the Rouge	$7,500	1	1%
Oscoda Citizens for Clean Water	$5,400	1	n/a

Ecology Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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 30.

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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.

United States Energy FoundationCA29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · New Venture Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Kresge Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Enviromental Council · The Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan

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 Ecology Center

How much does Ecology Center give?: Ecology Center reported 25 itemized grants totaling $433,500, out of $450,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Ecology Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (73%), Health (10%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Ecology Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Allied Media Projects Inc ($177k), Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($137k), Clean and Healthy New York ($123k).
Does Ecology Center fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ecology Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated.
Where is Ecology Center based?: Ecology Center is based in MI.