· Public charity
Environment America Inc
The corporation is organized for the purpose of conducting public interest research, policy development, analysis, education, litigation, and advocacy to protect the environment and people of the united states of america, including, but not limited to, the quality of america's air, water and land.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +181% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAENVIRONMENT AMERICA ACTION FUND5× · 2018–2024 · $18M
- PIPENNENVIRONMENT INC2× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue -23%
- CFCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY5× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- CCCHANGE CORPSone grant, 2018 · $685k
- CCCOLORADANS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES (FEC COMMITTEE ID 201750318886)one grant, 2017 · $200k
- CCCOLORADO CITIZENS' ALLIANCE (FEC COMMITTEE ID 20145028787)one grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.
Public interest research and litigation in the general area of environmental protection.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Environment America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environment America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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