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Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues.

$800k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$900kRecreation & Sports$311kEducation$200kHousing & Shelter$100kCommunity Improvement$100k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$100,000
TURNING GREEN$100,000
PLANT A MILLION CORALS$100,000
WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE$100,000
NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS INC$100,000
SEAWORTHY COLLECTIVE$100,000
THE GREENING OF DETROIT$100,000
NEW ENERGY NEXUS$100,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CLIMATE XCHANGE EDUCATION: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%TURNING GREEN: $100k → 8%NEW ENERGY NEXUS: $100k → 10%PLANT A MILLION CORALS: $100k → 13%SEAWORTHY COLLECTIVE: $100k → 15%THE GREENING OF DETROIT: $100k → 21%SQUAREONE VILLAGES: $100k → 15%NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS INC: $100k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR WWU & ALUMNI: $100k → 12%CAMP QUINEBARGE LLC: $311k → 9%TURNING GREEN: $100k → 8%WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE: $100k → 10%WOMEN'S EARTH ALLIANCE: $100k → 10%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

NH
WA
MI
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
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 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
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
2
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
5
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
6
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
7
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
8
Rocky Mountain Institute

Transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

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9
Environment Now
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10
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
11
CalCef Innovations

Optimizing the clean energy transition - 100%+ clean energy economy for the 100%.

Environment
12
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Green; the most unlike its peers is Squareone Villages. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Earth Island Institute Inc: $200,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENING OF DETROITCLIMATE XCHANGE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE XCHANGE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INCSeaworthy Foundation Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentSeaworthy Foundation IncNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentNatural Capitalism Solutions IncPlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentPlant a Million Corals Foundation IncCAMP QUINEBARGE LLC: $311,491 · OtherCAMP QUINEBARGE LLCTurning Green: $200,000 · HealthTurning GreenFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $100,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…New Energy Nexus Enventure: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSQUAREONE VILLAGES: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$700,000Other$311,491Health$200,000Education$200,000Community Improvement$100,000Housing & Shelter$100,000

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 budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTurning Green: $200,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Energy Nexus Enventure: $100,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLIMATE XCHANGE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSQUAREONE VILLAGES: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSeaworthy Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 25% 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Seaworthy Foundation Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Squareone Villages: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Environment Next Inc?

Find your warmest path to Environment Next Inc 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 12 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 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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