California · Public charity
Environmental Research Advocates
To fund scientific research, education and innovative projects designed to improve the environment.
- $54k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $51k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Environmental Research Advocates 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 | 2 | $51k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $49k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $167k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $41k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $205,611 | 7 | 1% |
| The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness | $85,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Regents Univ of California | $49,364 | 4 | n/a |
| Global Security Institute | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Perimeter Institute Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Roads School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Environmental Research Advocates
- How much does Environmental Research Advocates give?
- Environmental Research Advocates reported 2 itemized grants totaling $50,500, out of $54,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Environmental Research Advocates fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Health (32%), Education (19%).
- Who are Environmental Research Advocates's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation ($206k), The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness ($85k), Regents Univ of California ($49k).
- Does Environmental Research Advocates fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Environmental Research Advocates?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Environmental Research Advocates based?
- Environmental Research Advocates is based in CA.
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