· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CATE SCHOOL4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +12%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +202%- URUNION RESCUE MISSION4× · 2019–2023 · $333k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +21%
- TRTHE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ACAMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
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.
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.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
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.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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