· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COASTKEEPER ALLIANCE | $120,000 |
| RESTORE THE DELTA | $55,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BAYKEEPER | $50,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| SAVE CALIFORNIA SALMON | $45,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $35,000 |
| RIDGES TO RIFFLES INDIGENOUS CONSERVATION GROUP | $35,000 |
| CONSERVATION CONGRESS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Environment Now’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 +70% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 15 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $705k · revenue +127%
- CCCalifornia Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance6× · 2017–2024 · $597k · revenue +113%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $405k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- PAPACHAMAMA ALLIANCE FOR ITS GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATURE PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $78k
- RFROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WAWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE FISCAL SPONSOR FOR LORETO COASTKEEPER CABO PULMO WATEone grant, 2023 · $45k
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
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.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
To create a california where balancing economic growth and environmental protection is not only a vision, but also a reality.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
How this is measured
83 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. 83 of the 134 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 LEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE THE DELTA ↗
- Who funds CRAG LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds Russian Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS UNITED FOR SAFETY ETHICS AND ECOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Save California Salmon ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER ↗
- Who funds Baykeeper ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Monterey Coastkeeper ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Coastkeeper ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BAYORG ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Environment Now funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environment Now. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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