How much did ECOLOGY CENTER grant in FY2024?

ECOLOGY CENTER reported 50 grants totaling $10,789,057 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

ECOLOGY CENTER

The ECOLOGY CENTER's mission is to inspire and build a sustainable and just future for the east bay, california, and beyond, transforming the ideals of sustainability into practice.

$11M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.9M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of ECOLOGY CENTER’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.

02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $39k
$10k–50k21 grants · $549k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
$250k+9 grants · $8.5M

$43,300

Median grant

States reached

$8.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

PACIFIC COAST FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION$1,905,840
HEART OF THE CITY FARMERS' MARKET$1,715,135
URBAN VILLAGE FARMERS' MKT ASS$1,057,215
HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES$1,026,063
ALCHEMIST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN$915,603
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN$833,501
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISES OF LOS ANGELES$457,743
AGRICULTURE & LAND-BASED TRAINING$315,783
NORTH COAST GROWERS ASSOCIATION$286,913
PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER$197,813
NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES$174,711
SANTA BARBARA CFMA$164,545
CSU CHICO RESEARCH FOUNDATION$160,601
FRESH APPROACH$103,416
SAN JOAQUIN CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKET$97,866

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$44M · 59 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$44M

$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+8%

Still filing today

64%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

HO
HEART OF THE CITY FARMERS' MARKET
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +103% · 66% of their budget
PC
PACIFIC COAST FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +58% · 32% of their budget
HA
HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +245% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORINA
one grant, 2017 · $131k · revenue -9%
MC
MISSION COMMUNITY MARKET
one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -38%
CR
COLLECTIVE ROOTS
one grant, 2017 · $12k

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.

California Fresh Farmers Market

California fresh farmers market association's mission is to establish and operate vibrant farmers markets that connect communitites with fresh, locally grown produce and promote healthy living

Food & Nutrition

Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

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Tacoma Farmers Market

The mission of the Tacoma Farmers Market is to provide a sustainable market venue where local farms and small businesses can connect directly with consumers and the community. In doing so, our three markets support our vision of:…

Human Services

Agricultural Community Events

Promoting local agricultural activities through the formation and management of local farmers' markets. successfully operate multiple farmers' markets in marin county and sonoma county.

Community Improvement

Ojai Community Farmers Market

To educate consumers about our food system, hold space for farmers and producers to interact directly with their customers, and partner with our local schools to promote healthy lifestyles and deeper community connection

Food & Nutrition

Black Farmers Market

Support Black Farmers via programs and services

Human Services

Oregon Farmers Markets Association

Promote, support, and develop farmers markets in oregon. provide services and educational assistance to association members.

Food & Nutrition

Farmers Market Fund

Providing low income, elderly, and under-served populations in the region to increase access to healthy, locally grown food.

Food & Nutrition

Vancouver Farmers Market Assoc

To promote a healthy and vibrant community by providing access to local nourishing food and high-quality artisan products. We support over 200 small businesses by providing direct consumer access, business development support, and…

Community Improvement

Portland Farmers Market

To operate vibrant farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers, strengthen our food economy and serve as community gathering places.

Community Improvement

The California Grocers Association

Promote education, research and community service in the grocery industry.

Unclassified

Del Norte and Tribal Lands Community

To strengthen our local food system to support a healthy and resilient north coast community.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association and the most unlike its peers is Chico State Enterprises. 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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/68

the rest of the field

13%

16,213/129,421

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.

04the grantee network

46 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)

42/46

Grantees still filing

37/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$21,629,661Community Improvement$6,727,720Education$5,289,799Food & Nutrition$4,255,715Environment$3,059,950Human Services$2,751,827International$280,598

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA31.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Association of Food Banks · The California Endowment · The Annenberg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 ECOLOGY CENTER 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: FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN SLO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823680300 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 FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN SLO, 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 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Ecology Center?

Find your warmest path to Ecology Center 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.

ECOLOGY CENTER

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

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ecology Center?

More from the funding graph

ECOLOGY CENTER

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

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ecology Center?

More from the funding graph