· Public charity
Global Greengrants Fund
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $3,372,359 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,380,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,008,058 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $529k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL | $235,000 |
| CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE | $201,900 |
| GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL FAMILY FARM COALITION | $190,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY | $190,000 |
| PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK (PANNA) | $165,000 |
| CONFEDERACION UNIDA DE EL PUEBLO TAINO | $120,000 |
| HAWAII INVESTMENT READY | $120,000 |
| COMMUNITY AGROECOLOGY NETWORK | $120,000 |
| A GROWING CULTURE | $120,000 |
| NATION OF HAWAII - ALOHA FIRST | $118,500 |
| NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDER LAW CENTER | $70,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 — $33M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $33M to organizations and $136k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS · FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS · FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS · FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS · FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS · FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATIONS
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 +37% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 30 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- CACARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +79%
- GIGroundswell International Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $218k · revenue +89%
- IPINDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $195k · revenue +54%
Funded once
EASTERN WOODLAND LACROSSone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -30%- AAAFRICA AGENDAone grant, 2023 · $150k
- TMTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $128k · revenue -85%
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.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
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 International Indigenous Fund for Development and Solidarity Batani. 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 22 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) ↗
- Who funds International Indian Treaty Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY ↗
- Who funds National Save The Family Farm Coalition ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WOODLAND LACROSS ↗
- Who funds Community Agroecology Network ↗
- Who funds Environmental Defender Law Center ↗
- Who funds The Oakland Institute ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SHIPIBO-CONIBO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA ↗
- Who funds The Field Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds A GROWING CULTURE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII INVESTMENT READY ↗
- Who funds ALOHA FIRST ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds National Black Food and Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE FRIENDLY ENTERPRISE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Earthworks ↗
- Who funds Land is Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ARAB WATCH COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRUDE ACCOUNTABILITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds International Rivers Network ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp ↗
- Who funds LAKE BAIKAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADICAL GRANDMA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The McKnight Foundation · The Christensen Fund · The Ford Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
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 Greengrants Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% 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.