· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k74 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k41 grants · $6.7M
- $250k+44 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| INT'L RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD (IREX) | $1,217,000 |
| THE ENERGY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SUNRISE PROJECT INC - US | $1,000,000 |
| EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT | $800,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $760,000 |
| INT'L RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD (IREX) | $700,000 |
| INT'L RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD (IREX) | $608,495 |
| CLIMATE 2025 | $575,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| CLIMATE 2025 | $500,000 |
| GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND | $500,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
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 US giving — 38% of grant dollars ($36M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 62% that went abroad ($58M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 62% of all-years giving ($58M)
31 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Growald Climate Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 45 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M 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
- IRINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +0%
- TETHE ENERGY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +31%
- GYGREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- EFENERGY FOUNDATION CHINAone grant, 2020 · $1.4M
- SSSTEELWATCH STICHTINGone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- SPSUNRISE PROJECT AUSTRAILIA LIMITEDone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
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…
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…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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 Rabia Foundation (Usa) Inc. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 286 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
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: 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
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 Growald Climate Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Woodstock Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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