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International Institute for Environment and Development

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (iied)'s mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence in partnership with others.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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51% of International Institute for Environment and Development’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’19
3
’20
5
’21
2
’22
3
’23
3
’24

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

Itemized, FY2024
$2.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$856,455
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,005,885
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations International Institute for Environment and Development funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalCrime & LegalHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$981k33%
FY20234$897k25%
FY20223$633k33%
FY20215$343k60%
FY20203$85k33%
FY20191$41k100%
FY20172$59kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.9MEducation$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.7MInternational$228kAnimals$97kFood & Nutrition$56kCivil Rights$22k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget International Institute for Environment and Development supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNamati Inc: $2,549,352 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetWomen's Refugee Commission Inc: $103,759 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $91,226 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Enterprise Fund: $81,040 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHuairou Commission Women Homes & Community: $63,978 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGroundswell International Inc: $55,718 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $43,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResource Equity: $22,793 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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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 8.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 International Institute for Environment and Development

How much does International Institute for Environment and Development give?
International Institute for Environment and Development reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,987,077, out of $5,472,773 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does International Institute for Environment and Development fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Education (32%), Crime & Legal (29%).
Who are International Institute for Environment and Development's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Namati Inc ($2.5M), Women's Refugee Commission Inc ($104k), Wildlife Conservation Society ($91k).
Does International Institute for Environment and Development fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as International Institute for Environment and Development?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

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 11 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 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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