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Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Coalition is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$9.2MCivil Rights$194kPhilanthropy$83kCrime & Legal$72kFood & Nutrition$57kHousing & Shelter$57kCommunity Improvement$19kEmployment$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$34,410
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRID Alternatives San Diego$34,410
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $904k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PODER: $103k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $70k → 11%PODER: $70k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $35k → 11%PODER: $61k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $30k → 11%PODER: $61k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $20k → 11%PODER: $53k → 10%Center on Policy Initiatives: $15k → 11%PODER: $45k → 10%Tides Center: $50k → 10%Casa Familiar: $11k → 11%SCOPE: $48k → 14%SCOPE: $42k → 14%SCOPE: $42k → 14%SCOPE: $8k → 14%Olive Gardens & Learning Ctn: $57k → 11%Olive Gardens & Learning Ctn: $6k → 11%Center on Policy Initiatives: $15k → 11%Alliance of Californians for Comm Empowerment: $50k → 11%Center on Policy Initiatives: $11k → 11%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 15 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$5.0M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT
    6× · 2018–2023 · $957k · revenue +229%
  • CO
    CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT
    6× · 2018–2023 · $586k · revenue +77%
  • AP
    Asian Pacific Environmental Network
    6× · 2018–2023 · $534k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • CE
    California Environmental Justice Alliance
    one grant, 2024 · $4.1M · 38% of their budget
  • AO
    Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • UC
    URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · 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.

04Its 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
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
2
Central California Environmental Justice Network

To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.

Environment
3
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
6
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
7
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
8
Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Coalition is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. We believe that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect…

Environment
9
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement
12
Californians Against Waste Foundation

Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Olivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc. 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

23 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California Environmental Justice Alliance: $4,106,321 · EnvironmentCalifornia Environmental Justice AllianceCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $956,735 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENTAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $534,239 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Environmental NetworkSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $308,450 · Environment+2 more: $146,410 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $829,544 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMU…Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $397,835 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Al…CITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $143,000 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COM…TIDES CENTER: $443,774 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTE…CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $196,000 · Human ServicesCENTER ON P…Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $139,656 · Human ServicesStrategic C…MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $86,000 · Human ServicesMISSION EDG…OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC: $63,141 · Human ServicesOLIVEWOODS …Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $585,563 · Crime & LegalPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $317,011 · InternationalLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $292,525 · Civil RightsTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $17,245 · OtherBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $7,500 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,010 · Other
Environment$6,052,155Community Improvement$1,370,379Human Services$989,571Crime & Legal$585,563International$317,011Civil Rights$292,525Philanthropy$30,000Other$29,755

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 budgetCalifornia Environmental Justice Alliance: $4,106,321 over 1y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $956,735 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $829,544 over 6y, 28% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $585,563 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $534,239 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $443,774 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $397,835 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $317,011 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $308,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $292,525 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $196,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $143,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $139,656 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSANDIEGO350: $96,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $86,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC: $63,141 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGRID ALTERNATIVES: $50,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $17,245 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,010 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United States Energy …The Energy FoundationThe California Wellne…Asian Pacific Environ…The Libra FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…The Schmidt Family Fo…The James Irvine Foun…PatagoniaorgThe California Endowm…ImpactassetsincThe San Diego Foundat…
United States Energy FoundationCA29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Asian Pacific Environmental Network · The Libra Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The California Endowment · Impactassetsinc · The San Diego Foundation

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 Environmental Health Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental Health Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
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    How do I get to Environmental Health Coalition?

    Find your warmest path to Environmental Health Coalition 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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