· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $976,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,233,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,256,647 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $882k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SBCLT | $145,000 |
| Environmental Integrity Prjct | $105,000 |
| EYCEJ | $81,200 |
| GreenLatinos | $75,000 |
| BLARG | $75,000 |
| MNEJT | $72,800 |
| Breathe Free Detroit | $72,800 |
| Ironbound Community Corp | $67,200 |
| Californians Against Waste Fd | $62,500 |
| CURE | $62,500 |
| Valley Improvement Project | $62,500 |
| Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust | $25,000 |
| Zero Waste Detroit | $25,000 |
| Slingshot | $25,000 |
| JOIN for Clean Air | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.3M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
Stated purpose: Zero waste support
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EYEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE7× · 2019–2025 · $564k · revenue +282%
- CPCOMMUNITY POWER6× · 2020–2025 · $431k · revenue +198%
- ICIronbound Community Corporation6× · 2020–2025 · $352k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TATOXICS ACTION CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -89%
- SOSTUDENT ORGANIZING INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +138%
- SSSTUDENT-LED SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES INC PLAN - POST-LANDFILL ACTION NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by…
To safeguard the public from health hazards that impact families, workers, and the environment
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…
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…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
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…
Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Join for Clean Air. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY POWER ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United Workers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GreenLatinos ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Californians Against Waste Foundation ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT-LED SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES INC PLAN - POST-LANDFILL ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO WASTE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Join for Clean Air ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECYCLING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
- South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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