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Evolving Earth Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
71%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
7
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 71% of the organizations Evolving Earth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentOther
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
FY20227$24k71%
FY202110$30k60%
FY20208$23k50%
FY20199$27k78%
FY20188$26k88%
FY20178$23kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$109kScience & Tech$51kEnvironment$3kArts & Culture$3kHealth$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KS
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$16,5834n/a
University of Florida$11,3744n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$6,00020%
Pennsylvania State University$6,0001n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$3,0001n/a
Miami University$3,0001n/a
Baylor University$3,00010%
Chicago Horticultural Society$2,94510%
Bucknell University$2,93010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,9291n/a
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All grantees of Evolving Earth Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$16,5834n/a
University of Florida$11,3744n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$6,00020%
Pennsylvania State University$6,0001n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$3,0001n/a
Miami University$3,0001n/a
Baylor University$3,00010%
Chicago Horticultural Society$2,94510%
Bucknell University$2,93010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$2,9291n/a
University of Utah$2,9251n/a
Gustavus Adolphus College$2,89910%
University of California Santa Barbara$2,8401n/a
University of Michigan$2,65011%
Adelphi University$2,32510%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.

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About Evolving Earth Foundation

How much does Evolving Earth Foundation give?
Evolving Earth Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $29,799 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Evolving Earth Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (64%), Science & Tech (30%), Environment (2%).
Who are Evolving Earth Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: University of Washington ($17k), University of Florida ($11k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($6k).
Does Evolving Earth Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Evolving Earth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Evolving Earth Foundation based?
Evolving Earth Foundation is based in WA.

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 41 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home