How much does Environment Now give?

Environment Now reported 61 grants totaling $1,539,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Environment Now fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (86%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%), International (2%).

Who are Environment Now's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation ($2.2M), Center for Biological Diversity Inc ($705k), California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance ($597k).

Does Environment Now fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Environment Now accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Environment Now?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment.

Where is Environment Now based?

Environment Now is based in CA.

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Environment Now

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 61
Grants FY2024: 45
Organizations funded FY2023: 42%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $175,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 49; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $33M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Environment Now funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $483k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	46	$1.4M	33%
FY2023	45	$1.5M	42%
FY2022	35	$1.2M	26%
FY2021	34	$1.2M	29%
FY2020	31	$1.1M	55%
FY2019	18	$1.3M	50%
FY2018	5	$1.4M	40%
FY2017	49	$932k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$8.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$260kInternational$258kCivil Rights$165kAnimals$135kEducation$130kHuman Services$113kArts & Culture$98kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation	$2,192,200	2	13%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$705,000	7	0%
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance	$597,000	6	21%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$405,000	5	0%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$240,000	2	1%
Conservation Congress	$200,000	6	45%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc	$200,000	3	1%
Restore the Delta	$180,000	5	5%
Crag Law Center	$170,000	6	3%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper	$133,000	6	3%

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All grantees of Environment Now by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation	$2,192,200	2	13%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$705,000	7	0%
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance	$597,000	6	21%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$405,000	5	0%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$240,000	2	1%
Conservation Congress	$200,000	6	45%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc	$200,000	3	1%
Restore the Delta	$180,000	5	5%
Crag Law Center	$170,000	6	3%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper	$133,000	6	3%
Russian Riverkeeper	$129,200	4	4%
Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology	$125,000	6	28%
Save California Salmon	$120,000	3	4%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability	$120,000	3	1%
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc	$117,250	7	5%
Environmental Law Foundation	$115,000	3	19%
Pacific Institute	$110,000	4	96%
Institute for Fisheries Resources	$105,000	5	12%
San Diego Coastkeeper	$100,000	3	4%
Baykeeper	$91,000	3	2%
Friends of the River Foundation	$85,600	4	4%
Monterey Coastkeeper	$85,500	4	29%
Golden State Salmon Association Inc	$85,000	4	7%
Environmental Defense Center	$81,000	4	1%
The Pachamama Alliance	$80,000	1	1%
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc	$77,000	4	4%
Orange County Coastkeeper	$67,000	4	2%
Heal the Bay	$65,000	3	1%
Friends of the Eel River	$60,000	3	7%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Bayorg	$52,500	2	1%
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc	$50,000	5	3%
Geos Institute	$40,000	2	4%
Go Alliance	$40,000	2	29%
Water Foundation	$38,500	1	0%
Sequoia Forestkeeper	$37,500	4	12%
American Bird Conservancy	$37,500	6	0%
Native American Land Conservancy	$35,000	2	1%
Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conser	$35,000	1	5%
Indian Cultural Organization	$35,000	3	8%
Public Health Institute	$30,078	1	0%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$30,000	1	1%
California Sportfishing Protection Allia	$30,000	2	11%
Center for Food Safety	$30,000	1	1%
Klamath Forest Alliance	$25,000	3	16%
Earthjustice	$25,000	1	0%
From The Heart Productions	$23,000	3	0%
Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center	$22,500	3	7%
Clean Water Fund	$22,000	1	0%
Americans for Oxford Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The California Water Impact Network	$20,000	1	5%
Citizens United for Resources and Environment Inc	$20,000	1	6%
Little Manila Rising	$20,000	2	0%
Climate Emergency Fund	$20,000	1	0%
California Indian Environmental Alliance	$20,000	1	3%
Center for Sustainable Economy	$20,000	1	7%
The Surfrider Foundation	$16,000	2	0%
Earth Law Center	$15,000	1	8%
Inside Climate News Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Partnership for Policy Integrity	$15,000	1	2%
US Water Alliance	$14,000	1	0%
We Advocate Thorough Environmental Review	$12,500	1	n/a
Cascadia Media Lab	$10,000	1	n/a
Unite the Parks	$10,000	1	n/a
Residents for Responsible Desalination	$8,000	1	n/a
Wild Nature Institute	$7,500	1	5%
Coalition for Clean Air	$6,500	1	1%
Community Conservation Solutions	$5,000	1	0%
Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
350 Bay Area	$3,500	1	n/a
Cultural Fire Management Council	$2,750	1	0%
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse	$2,000	1	0%
Fund for Wild Nature	$1,600	2	0%
National Parks Conservation Association	$1,500	1	0%
From Lot to Spot	$1,250	2	n/a
Del Amo Action Committee	$1,000	2	1%
SJVWater	$800	1	0%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice	$500	1	0%
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust	$500	1	0%
Community Water Center	$500	1	n/a
Pacoima Beautiful	$500	1	n/a
Amigos de Los Rios	$244	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Environment Now supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 73.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA59.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Resources Legacy Fund · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Water Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment

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.

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About Environment Now

How much does Environment Now give?: Environment Now reported 61 grants totaling $1,539,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Environment Now fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (86%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%), International (2%).
Who are Environment Now's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation ($2.2M), Center for Biological Diversity Inc ($705k), California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance ($597k).
Does Environment Now fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Environment Now accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Environment Now?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment.
Where is Environment Now based?: Environment Now is based in CA.