· Private foundation
EcoTrust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $747k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Planned Parenthood Federat | $115,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $70,000 |
| PAI | $45,000 |
| Population Media Center | $40,000 |
| Fos Feminista | $35,000 |
| EngenderHealth | $35,000 |
| Pathfinder International | $35,000 |
| Ipas | $35,000 |
| DKT International | $30,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $30,000 |
| USA for UNFPA | $30,000 |
| Population Services International | $30,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $30,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $26,500 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +1%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +40%- PMPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- UFUSA for UNFPAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- WPWORLD POPULATION BALANCEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
- BCBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +104%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DKT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds USA FOR UNFPA INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Earthworks ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Longview Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard R Howe Foundation · Steven C Leuthold Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization EcoTrust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from EcoTrust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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