· Public charity
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Lcvef works to turn environmental values into national, state and local priorities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+12 grants · $52M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $43,000,000 |
| VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT | $3,000,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION | $2,863,481 |
| RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND | $440,500 |
| CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND | $435,000 |
| MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $346,000 |
| OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $342,800 |
| MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $327,800 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $281,000 |
| THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND | $281,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $262,800 |
| NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC | $244,000 |
| CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA | $244,000 |
| ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION FUND | $208,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- LOLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $149M · revenue +388% · 30% of their budget
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +643%
NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +189% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- VVOTEORGone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -5%
- VVOTEAMERICAone grant, 2020 · $800k · revenue +7%
- NYNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +63%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors for Environmental Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
86 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. 86 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund ↗
- Who funds MAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VOTEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds STEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CT LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS ↗
- Who funds The Partnership Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Conservation AL Foundation Inc ↗
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: League of Conservation Voters Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · New Venture Fund · Western Conservation Foundation · National Wildlife Federation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Partnership Project Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
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 League of Conservation Voters Education Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- Rethink Energy Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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.