Massachusetts · Private foundation
Growald Climate Fund Inc
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.
- $28M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 170
- Grants FY2024
- 127
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 98 to 127
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Growald Climate Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 144 | $26M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 127 | $28M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 124 | $15M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 126 | $14M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 118 | $6.6M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 98 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Research & Exchanges Board Inc | $6,229,074 | 2 | 2% |
| The Energy Foundation | $5,200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Greening Youth Foundation Inc | $1,024,152 | 5 | 3% |
| World Resources Institute | $1,010,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Climateworks Foundation | $913,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $697,305 | 2 | n/a |
| Berkeley Lab Foundation | $650,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Techsoup Global | $600,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 161 recipients with no EIN on record ($68M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Growald Climate Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Climateworks Foundation · Turrell Fund · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Vermont Humanities Council · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
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About Growald Climate Fund Inc
- How much does Growald Climate Fund Inc give?
- Growald Climate Fund Inc reported 170 grants totaling $28,015,246 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 98 and 127 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Growald Climate Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (64%), International (9%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are Growald Climate Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: International Research & Exchanges Board Inc ($6.2M), The Energy Foundation ($5.2M), Greening Youth Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Growald Climate Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Growald Climate Fund Inc 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 Growald Climate Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, Climateworks Foundation.
- Where is Growald Climate Fund Inc based?
- Growald Climate Fund Inc is based in MA.
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