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Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. As a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and clean energy issues, elm plays a crucial role in coordinating and elevating the environmental community…

$262k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$252k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$6.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EnvironmentHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$252k40%
FY20248$175k50%
FY20235$50k20%
FY20223$23k0%
FY20215$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$463kHuman Services$60kCivil Rights$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maine Conservation Alliance$95,000532%
Green Energy Consumers Alliance Inc$85,00050%
Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc$67,500319%
Roots 2empower$60,00029%
Renewable Energy Vermont Education Fund Inc$50,0002n/a
Save the Sound$45,00040%
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc$40,00021%
Maine Climate Action Now$20,00014%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$15,00010%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$15,00010%
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All grantees of Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maine Conservation Alliance$95,000532%
Green Energy Consumers Alliance Inc$85,00050%
Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc$67,500319%
Roots 2empower$60,00029%
Renewable Energy Vermont Education Fund Inc$50,0002n/a
Save the Sound$45,00040%
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc$40,00021%
Maine Climate Action Now$20,00014%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$15,00010%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Clean Water Fund$12,50020%
Maine People's Resource Center$11,5001n/a
Climate Action Rhode Island Education Fund$10,0001n/a
The Alliance for Business Leadership Inc$7,50011%

Where it is load-bearing

Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaine Conservation Alliance: $95,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetGreen Energy Consumers Alliance Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSalem Alliance for the Environment Inc: $67,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetRoots 2empower: $60,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSave the Sound: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBlack Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Climate Action Now: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConservation Law Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClean Water Fund: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alliance for Business Leadership Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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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 11.

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.

Barr FoundationMA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

How much does Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc give?
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $251,500, out of $262,420 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (87%), Human Services (11%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Maine Conservation Alliance ($95k), Green Energy Consumers Alliance Inc ($85k), Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc ($68k).
Does Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barr Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc based?
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc is based in MA.

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 14 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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