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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.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $251,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $262,420 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,920 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$50,000
GREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC$40,000
ROOTS2EMPOWER$35,000
RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT EDUCATION FUND$30,000
BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS$20,000
MAINE CLIMATE ACTION NOW$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE$15,000
SALEM ALLIANCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT$15,000
SLINGSHOT CO CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$15,000
MAINE LABOR CLIMATE COUNCIL CO MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER$11,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOTS2EMPOWER: $35k → 14%ROOTS2EMPOWER: $25k → 14%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$455k · 8 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$455k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentSocial ScienceHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GE
    GREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +135%
  • ROOTS 2EMPOWER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CA
    CLIMATE ACTION RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • THE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +18%
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
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…

Environment
2
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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3
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
4
ClimateWork Maine

ClimateWork Maine (CWM) is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Maine that serves as a support network for businesses and business leaders that are taking action on climate change, to meet its challenges and to seize the…

Health
5
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
6
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
8
Acadia Center

Acadia Center advances bold, effective, and equitable clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

Environment
9
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc

NESEA acts as a hub that connects citizens, professionals, businesses and organizations in the Northeast seeking to discover and demonstrate the responsible production and use of energy.

Environment
10
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
11
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Conservation Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Conservation Law Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $95,000 · EnvironmentMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCESALEM ALLIANCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $67,500 · EnvironmentSALEM ALLIANCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INCSAVE THE SOUND: $45,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDMaine Climate Action Now: $20,000 · EnvironmentMaine Climate Action NowNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine IncCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCCLEAN WATER FUND: $12,500 · EnvironmentGREEN ENERGY CONSUMERS ALLIANCE INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterGREEN ENERGY CONSU…RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT EDUCATION FUND INC: $50,000 · OtherRENEWABLE ENERG…MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $11,500 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'S …CLIMATE ACTION RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · OtherCLIMATE ACTION …ROOTS 2EMPOWER: $60,000 · Human ServicesROOTS 2EMPOW…BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $40,000 · Social ScienceBLACK ECON…THE ALLIANCE FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP INC: $7,500 · Social ScienceTHE ALLIAN…
Environment$270,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Other$71,500Human Services$60,000Social Science$47,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

Barr FoundationFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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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