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Horizon Climate Initiative
Horizon climiate initiative (hci) is dedicated to bending down the arc of greenhouse gas pollution by ending practices that favor fossil fuel generation at the expense of consumers and clean energy
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $746k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTUE | $325,000 |
| FREEDOM VIRGINIA | $130,000 |
| OHIO CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD | $120,000 |
| CITIZENS ACTION COALITION INDIANA EDUCATIONAL FUND | $100,000 |
| RENEW AMERICAN PROSPERITY | $100,000 |
| RESOURCE MEDIA | $100,000 |
| CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MICHIGAN | $81,730 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW STATE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CENTE | $63,800 |
| ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY | $50,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your 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
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $604k 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
Rocky Mountain Institute2× · 2023–2024 · $575k · revenue +26%- RARENEW AMERICAN PROSPERITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $277k · revenue -43% · 100% of their budget
- CUCITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MICHIGAN2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +111%
Funded once
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +29%
EARTHJUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +36%
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.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
Researching policy ideas on climate and clean energy in India, engaging legislators and business leaders to discuss those ideas.
To initiate & coordinate citizens action directed to improving the quality of life of all inhabitants of the state of indiana through principled advocacy of public policies to preserve democracy, conserve natural resources, and to protect…
F Minus opens a new front in the climate fight: a call for divestment from fossil fuel lobbyists. Launched in 2023, F Minus is using its revolutionary database of state-level lobbyists for upstream and midstream oil, gas, and coal…
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Utility Board of Ohio and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds RENEW AMERICAN PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Tides 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 Horizon Climate Initiative 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.
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.