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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 FY2024still arriving
170
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$60MInternational$8.9MCivil Rights$2.1MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.8MScience & Tech$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 170 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k74 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $6.7M
  • $250k+44 grants · $21M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$2,500,000
INT'L RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD (IREX)$1,217,000
EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE ENERGY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
SUNRISE PROJECT INC - US$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
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
CLIMATE 2025$500,000
ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY$500,000
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION$500,000
02The need
03

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: 38% of grant dollars ($36M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 62% that went abroad ($58M) is mapped below.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mankind Project USA: $5k → 6%MANKIND PROJECT USA: $5k → 6%MANKIND PROJECT USA: $5k → 6%MANKIND PROJECT USA: $4k → 6%Program for Torture Victims: $5k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $5k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $5k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $5k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $5k → 14%PROGRAM FOR TORTURE VICTIMS: $5k → 14%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%Shelburne Food Shelf: $500 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 62% of all-years giving ($58M)

31 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Netherlands$17M · 14 grants
United Kingdom$6.3M · 25 grants
South Korea$4.5M · 13 grants
Australia$4.1M · 10 grants
France$3.3M · 7 grants
Colombia$2.6M · 9 grants
South Africa$2.5M · 13 grants
Indonesia$2.1M · 8 grants
Philippines$1.8M · 10 grants
Japan$1.6M · 7 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Growald Climate Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Growald Climate Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 62% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 154 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
78

Total granted

$68M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

49%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +0%
  • TE
    THE ENERGY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +31%
  • GY
    GREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • EF
    ENERGY FOUNDATION CHINA
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M
  • SS
    STEELWATCH STICHTING
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • SP
    SUNRISE PROJECT AUSTRAILIA LIMITED
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

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…

Environment
4
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
5
Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment
6
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Terraset

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…

Environment
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
United States Endowment for Forestry

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.

Environment
11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 286 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/120
Grantees still filing
82/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION: $12,835,500 · OtherEUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATIONTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $5,200,000 · OtherTHE ENERGY FOUNDATIONCLIMATE 2025: $3,025,000 · OtherSED FUND: $2,760,000 · Other+149 more: $51,619,913 · Other+149 moreINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $6,229,074 · InternationalINTERNATI…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $1,010,000 · InternationalWORLD RES…+7 more: $326,000 · InternationalGREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,024,152 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $800,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY INC: $500,000 · Environment350ORG: $470,043 · EnvironmentE3G THIRD GENERATION ENVIRONMENTALISM: $450,000 · EnvironmentREGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $440,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Energy Monitor: $250,000 · Environment+16 more: $1,276,700 · EnvironmentROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,210,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHARITABLE: $650,000 · PhilanthropyCLIMATE FINALYTICS INC: $200,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $65,000 · PhilanthropyCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $913,000 · Science & TechBERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION: $650,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $41,000 · EducationFINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP: $400,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $48,480 · Community Improvement
Other$75,440,413International$7,565,074Environment$6,210,895Philanthropy$2,125,000Science & Tech$913,000Education$771,000Community Improvement$448,480

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $6,229,074 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $5,200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,024,152 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $1,010,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $913,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $800,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $650,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTECHSOUP GLOBAL: $600,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budget350ORG: $470,043 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetE3G THIRD GENERATION ENVIRONMENTALISM: $450,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetREGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $440,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP: $400,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGlobal Energy Monitor: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCLIMATE FINALYTICS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWANITI INITIATIVE: $200,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOil Change International Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $126,354 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND: $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $95,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetClimate Asia Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE INC: $49,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $48,480 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $36,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProgram for Torture Victims: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stanley Foundation dba Stanley Center for Peace and Security: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Mankind Project USA: $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 Vermont Community…Rockefeller Philanthr…Climateworks Foundati…Turrell FundVermont Council on th…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Morris & Bessie A…Vermont Humanities Co…The William & Flora H…Climate Imperative Fo…Jewish Community Fede…The Ford Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT41.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Growald Climate Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Growald Climate Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Growald Climate Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Growald Climate Fund Inc 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.

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 286 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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