· Private foundation
Enlyst Fund Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $25,000 |
| League of Conservation Voters Edu F | $25,000 |
| New Energy Nexus | $25,000 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society Inc | $25,000 |
| GRACE Center Inc | $20,000 |
| Mongabay | $20,000 |
| Oil Change International | $15,000 |
| Bushlife Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Voices for Progress Educational Fun | $10,000 |
| California Environmental Voters Edu | $10,000 |
| AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles | $10,000 |
| Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fun | $10,000 |
| The Climate Registry | $10,000 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 10% of Enlyst Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 49%.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWildlife Conservation Society6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +57%
- OCOil Change International Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +198%
- TCTHE CLIMATE REGISTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ESECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONSone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -99% · 32% of their budget
- CLCA League of Conservation Voters Edone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ABAmerican Bird Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Aceee seeks to aggressively mobilize and scale up energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, and to do so at substantial economic savings. we seek a vibrant and equitable economy that uses energy more…
Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The california clean energy fund supports entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity into the clean economy.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Oil Change International Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CLIMATE REGISTRY ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
- Who funds BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds CalCef Innovations ↗
- Who funds Take Back The Court Foundation ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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: Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Enlyst Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Enlyst Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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