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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$1.9MInternational$1.6MHealth$860kCivil Rights$242kEducation$210kRecreation & Sports$50kScience & Tech$34kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 9%Friends of UNFPA: $20k → 6%Friends of UNFPA: $15k → 6%USA for UNFPA: $30k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 64 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
3

Total granted

$4.9M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+104%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +1%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +40%
  • PM
    POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • UF
    USA for UNFPA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • WP
    WORLD POPULATION BALANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • BC
    BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INCgraduated
    one 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.

04Its 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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
8
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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9
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
10
Environment Now
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11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ipas; the most unlike its peers is Well Done Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
45/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Planned Parenthood Federat: $215,000 · OtherInternational Planned Parenthood Feder…PAI: $210,000 · OtherPAITHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $177,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMN Center for Environmental Advocacy: $167,500 · OtherMN Center for Environmental AdvocacyPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $152,500 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONALEngenderHealth: $125,000 · OtherEngenderHealthWomen On Web International Foundation: $112,818 · OtherWomen On Web International FoundationGuttmacher Institute Inc: $87,500 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $73,000 · OtherEarthworks: $60,000 · Other+20 more: $365,986 · Other+20 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $172,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND I…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $145,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE CO…MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $143,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $112,500 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INCCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $108,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL F…GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $102,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITIO…FRESH ENERGY: $87,500 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGYSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $81,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $57,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $52,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $52,000 · Environment+14 more: $178,125 · Environment+14 moreINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $565,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PAREN…PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $182,500 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONALIPAS: $180,000 · InternationalIPASDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 · InternationalDKT INTERNATIONAL INCENGENDERHEALTH INC: $60,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $42,500 · International+2 more: $71,000 · International+2 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $360,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…Trust Women Foundation Inc: $115,000 · HealthTrust Wome…CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC: $20,000 · HealthPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $210,000 · Education+2 more: $7,900 · EducationUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $115,000 · Human Services+1 more: $850 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $78,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,746,304Environment$1,292,625International$1,251,000Health$495,000Education$217,900Human Services$115,850Civil Rights$78,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $565,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $182,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIPAS: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $177,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $172,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $152,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $143,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $112,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $108,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $102,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $87,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH ENERGY: $87,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $81,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $78,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarthworks: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $33,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPMAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetWell Done Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POPULATION INSTITUTE INC: $22,616 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY: $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $13,575 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Pennsylvania Fund for Choic: $12,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPopulation Reference Bureau Inc: $8,320 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $7,800 over 6y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN25.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to EcoTrust?

Find your warmest path to EcoTrust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 72 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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