Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
Igsd's mission is to promote fast climate mitigation to slow near-term warming and self-propagating climate feedbacks, avoid or at least delay catastrophic climate and societal tipping points, and limit global temperatures to 1.5 cor at least keep this temperature guardrail in sight and limit overshoot.
- $610k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $400k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $400k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $587k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $1.6M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $500k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $255k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $511k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $195k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California | $1,724,735 | 3 | n/a |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Climate Integrity | $344,854 | 2 | 66% |
| Center for Human Rights and Environment Incorporated | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shindell Consulting LLC | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bledsoe & Associates LLC | $179,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action | $82,500 | 1 | 19% |
| Glencoe Strategies LLC | $81,100 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California | $1,724,735 | 3 | n/a |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Climate Integrity | $344,854 | 2 | 66% |
| Center for Human Rights and Environment Incorporated | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shindell Consulting LLC | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Maryland College Park | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bledsoe & Associates LLC | $179,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Work Environment Council of New Jersey Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action | $82,500 | 1 | 19% |
| Glencoe Strategies LLC | $81,100 | 1 | n/a |
| American University | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fresh Energy | $48,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Smart Surfaces Coalition | $45,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Nc Warn Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Fund for Chinas Environment | $30,000 | 1 | 27% |
| American Association for Justice | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Melrose Technologies LLC | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental Defender Law Center | $24,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Conservation Minnesota | $16,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Copal-Education Fund Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A | $16,250 | 1 | 1% |
| The Ohio Environmental Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Climate Generation | $3,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Mn350 | $3,750 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The Energy Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Center for Climate Integrity · Global Greengrants Fund · Marbrook Foundation · Longview Foundation
How this is measured
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About Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
- How much does Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development give?
- Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development reported 2 itemized grants totaling $399,735, out of $609,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (46%), Science & Tech (43%), Civil Rights (7%).
- Who are Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Regents of the University of California ($1.7M), Clean Air Task Force Inc ($500k), Center for Climate Integrity ($345k).
- Does Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, The Energy Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development based?
- Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development is based in DC.
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