· Private foundation
Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+59 grants · $64M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $4,500,000 |
| STICHTING FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $4,100,000 |
| LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | $3,250,948 |
| STICHTING SED FUND | $3,000,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $2,750,000 |
| CARBON GAP LTD | $2,723,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $2,500,000 |
| IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE | $2,458,300 |
| PROJECT INNERSPACE | $2,400,000 |
| LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION | $2,100,000 |
| POTSDAM INSTITUT FUR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG EV | $2,000,000 |
| CASCADE CLIMATE | $1,825,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND (DAF) | $1,500,000 |
| CARBON MAPPER | $1,500,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 63% of grant dollars ($204M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($122M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 37% of all-years giving ($122M)
13 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
111 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +202%- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY5× · 2018–2022 · $6.6M · revenue +0%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TRTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
- AFALASKA FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -21% · 39% of their budget
- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +128%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.
Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
How this is measured
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 218 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds THE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carbon Mapper Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CARBON TRACKER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INNERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIENTEARTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds Spark Climate Solutions ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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: Climateworks Foundation · Windward Fund · The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Sequoia Climate Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Resources Legacy Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Project Innerspace Inc: 34% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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