How much does Holdfast Trust give?

Holdfast Trust reported 17 grants totaling $7,475,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing.

What does Holdfast Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Public Benefit (0%), Civil Rights (0%).

Who are Holdfast Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Rewild ($8.6M), The Trust for Public Land ($8.5M), Save Our Home Planet Action Inc ($6.7M).

Which funders back the same organizations as Holdfast Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy, Tides Foundation.

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Wyoming · Public charity

Holdfast Trust

Fighting the environmental crisis by raising awareness of the current environmental crisis; protecting biodiversity and climate resilience through land preservation and restoration; defending and supporting democracy and environmental activism; lobbying and other advocacy in support of these issues; and making grants to other nonprofit…

$7.5M
Granted FY2022: 17
Grants FY2022: 17
Organizations funded FY2022

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51% of Holdfast Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Marin Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Holdfast Trust named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $7M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2022: $3,100,000
States reached, FY2022: 10
Total assets, FY2022: $1.4B

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$77MPublic Benefit$325kCivil Rights$225kHuman Services$75k

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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$8,550,000	3	6%
The Trust for Public Land	$8,500,000	1	3%
Save Our Home Planet Action Inc	$6,651,000	1	87%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$6,475,000	2	1%
Watttime Corporation	$3,000,000	1	25%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation	$1,463,994	2	6%
River Partners	$1,000,000	1	2%
Campaign for a Safe and Healthy CA See Schedule O For Complete Name	$500,000	1	2%
Tell the Dam Truth Inc	$400,000	1	n/a
Smp	$300,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Holdfast Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rewild	$8,550,000	3	6%
The Trust for Public Land	$8,500,000	1	3%
Save Our Home Planet Action Inc	$6,651,000	1	87%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$6,475,000	2	1%
Watttime Corporation	$3,000,000	1	25%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation	$1,463,994	2	6%
River Partners	$1,000,000	1	2%
Campaign for a Safe and Healthy CA See Schedule O For Complete Name	$500,000	1	2%
Tell the Dam Truth Inc	$400,000	1	n/a
Smp	$300,000	2	n/a
American Hunters & Anglers Action Network	$300,000	1	n/a
Alaska Wilderness League Action	$300,000	1	68%
Mobile Baykeeper Inc	$150,000	1	8%
Tides Advocacy	$100,000	1	0%
Hmp	$100,000	1	n/a
Climate Cabinet Action	$75,000	1	3%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Center for American Progress Action Fund	$50,000	1	1%
Forward Action Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Jane Fonda Climate PAC	$50,000	1	n/a
Takeaction Minnesota	$50,000	1	1%
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc	$50,000	1	1%
The Voter Project Fund	$50,000	1	2%
Nextgen Climate Action	$50,000	1	0%
America Votes	$50,000	1	0%
Environmental Voter Project Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Ventura County Democratic Central Committee	$45,500	1	n/a
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly	$45,000	1	29%
Environmental Defense Center	$40,000	1	2%
Climate Cabinet PAC	$25,000	1	n/a
Galeo Impact Fund Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Glahr Action Network	$25,000	1	1%
The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Stephenson for Supervisor	$5,500	1	n/a

Holdfast Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 26.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Women Donors Network Action · America Votes · Green Advocacy Project · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Marin Community 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.

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About Holdfast Trust

How much does Holdfast Trust give?: Holdfast Trust reported 17 grants totaling $7,475,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Holdfast Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (99%), Public Benefit (0%), Civil Rights (0%).
Who are Holdfast Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Rewild ($8.6M), The Trust for Public Land ($8.5M), Save Our Home Planet Action Inc ($6.7M).
Which funders back the same organizations as Holdfast Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Advocacy, Tides Foundation.
Where is Holdfast Trust based?: Holdfast Trust is based in WY.