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Green Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$702k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 33
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$8.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Green Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving34$652k41%
FY202425$430k16%
FY202327$445k4%
FY202229$440k21%
FY202129$615k0%
FY202031$473k19%
FY201933$465kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$1.2MRecreation & Sports$455kFood & Nutrition$420kEducation$400kArts & Culture$357kHealth$207kInternational$118kPublic Benefit$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
MD
AZ
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Green Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGoodpower Education Fund Inc: $330,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Food Share Inc: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKinship: $115,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMad Agriculture: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThorne Ecological Institute: $72,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington Ballet: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Plateau Foundation: $50,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSlow Money Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $47,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOlney Theatre Corporation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSecond State Press: $36,000 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetFirst Light Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDzi Foundation: $32,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThere With Care: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Friendship Bridge: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetE Town: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHaiti Projects Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWest Virginia Public Broadcasting Founda: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKim Robards Dance Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetColorado Uplift Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeld Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Force Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEcoflight: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Denver FoundationCO25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Green Fund with peer funders

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How do I get to Green Fund?

Find your warmest path to Green Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Green Fund

How much does Green Fund give?
Green Fund reported 37 grants totaling $702,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Green Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Green Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Goodpower Education Fund Inc ($330k), Community Food Share Inc ($165k), Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc ($150k).
Does Green Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Green Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Green Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Green Fund based?
Green Fund is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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