California · Public charity
Multiplier
To accelerate impact for initiatives focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.
- $37M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 83
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $36M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $242,766
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 63
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $63M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations Multiplier funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 80 | $35M | 60% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $22M | 73% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $2.8M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $3.6M | 72% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $6.4M | 96% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $281k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $264k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Energy Foundation | $6,900,000 | 2 | 2% |
| American Council On Renewable Energy | $4,798,663 | 2 | 26% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $3,364,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Inc | $3,050,500 | 2 | 13% |
| Americans for a Clean Energy Grid Inc | $2,984,000 | 2 | 100% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $2,513,292 | 2 | 1% |
| Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust | $2,244,408 | 3 | 80% |
| GridLab Inc | $1,675,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc | $1,362,650 | 2 | 47% |
| Advanced Energy Institute | $1,350,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 195 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Multiplier supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 173 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: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Windward Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Climate Imperative Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Patagoniaorg · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
About Multiplier
- How much does Multiplier give?
- Multiplier reported 83 itemized grants totaling $35,836,066, out of $36,592,746 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Multiplier fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (91%), Food & Nutrition (3%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Multiplier's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United States Energy Foundation ($6.9M), American Council On Renewable Energy ($4.8M), Rocky Mountain Institute ($3.4M).
- Does Multiplier fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Multiplier?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, The Energy Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Multiplier based?
- Multiplier is based in CA.
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