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Emmett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.1MEnvironment$4.7MRecreation & Sports$548kArts & Culture$362kHousing & Shelter$333kScience & Tech$319kPhilanthropy$301kHealth$247kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATE SCHOOL$1,581,698
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$500,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$100,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
TOMPKINS CONSERVATION$50,000
ONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANET$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$50,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$30,000
ALTASEA$30,000
THE FUND FOR THE PEOPLE IN PARKS$25,000
SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$25,000
GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE$20,000
SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS$20,000
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 (FY17–23, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 14%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA INC: $2k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $400 → 14%MONTECITO FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Emmett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Emmett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10.0M · 123 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

123 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
50

Total granted

$10.0M
$540k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • CATE SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +12%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +202%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $333k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +21%
  • TR
    THE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +107%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
3
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
4
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
5
Ocean Conservancy

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

Environment
6
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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7
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
8
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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11
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
12
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Research and Policy Center; the most unlike its peers is Fuel Freedom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

137 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 137 of the 192 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/137
Grantees still filing
102/137
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATE SCHOOL: $2,610,698 · EducationCATE SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,034,886 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,005,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUN…+13 more: $476,744 · Education+13 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $400,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FU…TOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $350,000 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSERVATIONNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $313,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENS…Sustainable Conservation: $251,000 · EnvironmentSustainable ConservationSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $200,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTO…GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 · EnvironmentSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS: $160,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands Foundation: $160,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $125,000 · Environment+38 more: $957,325 · Environment+38 moreYALE UNIVERSITY: $584,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANET: $425,000 · OtherONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANETTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $290,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYALTASEA: $205,000 · OtherALTASEATHE FUND FOR THE PEOPLE IN PARKS: $200,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $160,000 · OtherTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $200,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $201,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $164,000 · Other+106 more: $1,404,850 · Other+106 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $333,333 · Human Services+3 more: $8,900 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $58,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCENTS: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $166,000 · Public BenefitENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION: $130,000 · Public Benefit
Education$6,127,328Environment$3,076,325Other$3,833,850Human Services$342,233Recreation & Sports$332,000Philanthropy$300,500Public Benefit$296,000

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 budgetCATE SCHOOL: $2,610,698 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,034,886 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,005,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $400,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $350,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $333,333 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $313,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $290,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $251,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $201,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $200,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $185,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $166,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $164,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $160,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS: $160,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $160,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION: $130,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $125,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $107,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $81,344 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PRESS: $80,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $80,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $64,325 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER: $61,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetECOAMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRESTORE HETCH HETCHY: $45,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCoalition for Clean Air: $40,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB: $37,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChannel Islands Restoration: $32,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS ↗
  • Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
  • Who funds SOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND PRESS ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER ↗

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA44.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones 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 Emmett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emmett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 192 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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