How much did HOLDFAST TRUST grant in FY2024?

HOLDFAST TRUST reported 12 grants totaling $36,272,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

HOLDFAST TRUST

Provides grants to organizations engaged in protecting the environment and engages in direct conservation efforts to protect the environment through the acquisition of land or other property or contractual rights

$36M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$17M

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Philanthropy$46MEnvironment$8.4MAnimals$3.7MScience & Tech$3.0MCivil Rights$125kPublic Benefit$100kHuman Services$75kCommunity Improvement$50kCrime & Legal$40kOther$17M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

policyissuesballotwildregistrationengagementdedicated

2023

planet climateclimate change

2024

planet climateclimate changeadvocacy planet

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k2 grants · $71k
$50k–250k3 grants · $375k
$250k+6 grants · $35M

$500,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4B

Total assets

Largest grants

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,040,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$7,200,000
SAVE OUR HOME PLANET ACTION INC$6,651,000
REWILD$3,250,000
SMITH RIVER ALLIANCE INC$830,000
CAMPAIGN FOR A SAFE AND HEALTHY CALIFORNIA$500,000
SENATE MAJORITY PAC$200,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$100,000
CLIMATE CABINET ACTION$75,000
VENTURA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE$45,500
CLIMATE CABINET PAC$25,000
STEPHENSON FOR SUPERVISOR$5,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$66M · 6 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$66M

$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+148%

Still filing today

83%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitScience & TechCrime & LegalOther

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

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REWILD
2× · 2023–2024 · $45M · revenue +62%
THE CONSERVATION FUND
2× · 2022–2023 · $6.5M · revenue +59%
SMITH RIVER ALLIANCE INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +236%

Funded once

WT
WATT TIMEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +2752%
TT
TELL THE DAM TRUTH INC
one grant, 2023 · $400k
AW
ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION INC
one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -92% · 68% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights

350ORG Action Fund

350.org action fund is a campaign dedicated to changing the politics of climate change.

Environment

National Caucus of Environmental

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education

National Wildlife Federation Action Fund

To provide the tools and resources that enable people from all walks of life and political stripes to elevate their voices and become champions for wildlife and the wild places they call home.

Environment

CalWild

CalWild protects our state's drinking water and wild places by seeking new protections for streams and natural areas on public lands. Current campaigns include: the Sierra Forests, NW CA, the Desert, the San Gabriel Mts and the Central…

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Nrdc Action Fund Inc

To build political support for advancing the goals of the natural resources defense council.

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Energy Action Fund

Energy action fund advocates for a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.

Environment

Climate Equity Action Fund

Build the political power of community-based organizations to elect climate champions and secure policy wins.

Environment

Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that will meaningfully address climate change.

Environment

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

Climate Innovation Action Inc

To help secure governmental policies on climate change.

Environment

Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for American Progress Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Marin Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,945

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

21/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$45,738,715Other$16,967,500Environment$8,433,994Animals$3,730,000Science & Tech$3,000,000Civil Rights$125,000Public Benefit$100,000

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.

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.

Tides FoundationCA22.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organisation HOLDFAST TRUST 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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1get no government money at all

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300233489 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Holdfast Trust?

Find your warmest path to Holdfast Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HOLDFAST TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Holdfast Trust?

More from the funding graph

HOLDFAST TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Holdfast Trust?

More from the funding graph