Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc
To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $49k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 5 | $49k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $71k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $72k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $106k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justice Democrats PAC | $135,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Black Male Voter Project | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Georgia Project Action Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Voters Matter Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Periello for Governor | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Maryland Pesticide Education Network Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 6% |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | $21,250 | 2 | 0% |
| New Virginia Majority | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Md Together We Rise PAC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justice Democrats PAC | $135,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Black Male Voter Project | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Georgia Project Action Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Voters Matter Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Periello for Governor | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Maryland Pesticide Education Network Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 6% |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | $21,250 | 2 | 0% |
| New Virginia Majority | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Md Together We Rise PAC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sierra Club | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People and Pollinators Action Network | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Climate Hawks Vote | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Earth | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Democracy Initiative | $6,720 | 1 | n/a |
| New Florida Vision PAC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Ben Jealous | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Advocacy · Women Donors Network Action · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund
How this is measured
About Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc
- How much does Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc give?
- Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $49,250, out of $60,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (57%), Civil Rights (25%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Justice Democrats PAC ($136k), Black Male Voter Project ($75k), New Georgia Project Action Fund ($50k).
- Does Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Tides Advocacy, Women Donors Network Action.
- Where is Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc based?
- Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc is based in DC.
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