California · Public charity
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
GAIAs mission is to strengthen grassroots social movements that advance solutions to waste and pollution, working towards a just, zero waste world where people are free from toxic pollution.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $977k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $67,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives 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 | 15 | $977k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $511k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $610k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $323k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $675k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $440k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $198k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $10k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice | $563,600 | 7 | 8% |
| Community Power | $430,900 | 6 | 10% |
| Ironbound Community Corporation | $351,600 | 6 | 1% |
| The Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice | $348,400 | 5 | 9% |
| South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc | $347,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility | $294,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Toxics Action Center Inc | $199,600 | 1 | 13% |
| United Workers Association Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 8% |
| New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance | $150,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Clean Up the River Environment | $137,500 | 2 | 4% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United States Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Partnership Project Inc · Movement Strategy Center
How this is measured
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About Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
- How much does Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives give?
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives reported 15 itemized grants totaling $976,500, out of $2,233,147 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (67%), Community Improvement (11%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice ($564k), Community Power ($431k), Ironbound Community Corporation ($352k).
- Does Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives based?
- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives is based in CA.
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