Illinois · Public charity
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. We develop and lead successful strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural resources. We are…
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $93k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $215k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Law and Policy Center Action Fund | $1,600,000 | 7 | 99% |
| BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green | $43,833 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Power | $35,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Soulardarity | $35,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Illinois Peoples Action | $29,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Org | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heavens View Community Development Corp | $6,500 | 1 | 2% |
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: The Energy Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation
How this is measured
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About Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
- How much does Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest give?
- Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest reported 1 grants totaling $252,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
- Who are Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Environmental Law and Policy Center Action Fund ($1.6M), BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green ($44k), Community Power ($36k).
- Does Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Energy Foundation, United States Energy Foundation, Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund.
- Where is Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest based?
- Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest is based in IL.
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