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Global Greengrants Fund
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. We support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around the world.
- $38M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,251
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Global Greengrants Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k 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 | 46 | $2.8M | 65% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $741k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $844k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $585k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $145k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $189k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $203k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $270k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caribbean Agroecology Institute Inc (Fka Vermont Caribbean Institute Inc) | $309,980 | 3 | 5% |
| International Indian Treaty Council Inc | $257,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Groundswell International Inc | $218,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc | $195,000 | 2 | 5% |
| National Save The Family Farm Coalition | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pesticide Action Network North America | $165,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Africa Agenda | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Woodland Lacross | $150,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Community Agroecology Network | $140,000 | 2 | 16% |
Show all 109 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Global Greengrants Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 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: 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
How this is measured
About Global Greengrants Fund
- How much does Global Greengrants Fund give?
- Global Greengrants Fund reported 48 itemized grants totaling $3,372,359, out of $38,380,417 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Global Greengrants Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Civil Rights (17%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Global Greengrants Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Caribbean Agroecology Institute Inc (Fka Vermont Caribbean Institute Inc) ($310k), International Indian Treaty Council Inc ($258k), Groundswell International Inc ($218k).
- Does Global Greengrants Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Global Greengrants Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rsf Social Finance Inc, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Global Greengrants Fund based?
- Global Greengrants Fund is based in CO.
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