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Multiplier

To accelerate impact for initiatives focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.

$37M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$66MFood & Nutrition$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.4MAnimals$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$396kEducation$378kHuman Services$315kInternational$237kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 83 grants below total $35,836,066, the rows itemized in this filing. The $36,592,746 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $756,680 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+40 grants · $32M
$242,766
Median grant
25
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION$4,200,000
AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID$2,395,400
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY$2,388,463
CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS INSTITUTE$1,300,000
THE GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT$1,225,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$1,207,138
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,177,000
NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS$1,120,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$1,000,000
LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS$1,000,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$975,000
GRIDLAB$925,000
RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT$805,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$795,551
ACADIA CENTER$750,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODS: $89k → 17%JUNGLEKEEPERS INCORPORATED: $7k → 9%BELLINGHAM SEAFEAST: $12k → 12%SUSTAINABLE SILICON VALLEY: $5k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF THE REDWOODS: $29k → 17%SOUTHERN DOOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $25k → 20%MISSISSIPPI COALITION FOR VIETNAMESE AMERICAN FISHER FOLKS: $12k → 19%COASTSIDE HOPE: $141k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $14k → 10%NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK: $85k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50M · 59 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
92

Total granted

$50M
$6.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

98%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Rocky Mountain Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +26%
  • GP
    GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +17%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +36% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • ES
    ENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $825k · revenue +105% · 26% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WAVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $472k · revenue -57% · 26% of their budget
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $456k · revenue -21% · 61% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
2
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
3
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
4
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
5
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
10
Climate Institute

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…

Environment
11
Solar Energy Industries Association

Seia is the driving force behind solar energy and storage, building a stronger solar industry to power america through advocacy and education. representing organizations that promote, manufacture, install and support the development of…

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12
Environmental Defense Action Fund

To advocate for legislation and policies that protect the environment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve; the most unlike its peers is Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

188 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 188 of the 203 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/188
Grantees still filing
109/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC: $2,984,000 · EnvironmentAMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INCNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,513,292 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $2,244,408 · EnvironmentALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUSTGridLab Inc: $1,675,000 · EnvironmentCAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE INC: $1,362,650 · EnvironmentAdvanced Energy Institute: $1,350,000 · EnvironmentCE BUYERS INSTITUTE: $1,300,000 · EnvironmentBlueGreen Alliance Inc: $1,255,415 · EnvironmentAcadia Center: $1,250,000 · EnvironmentConservative Energy Network: $1,117,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,095,000 · Environment+60 more: $13,952,836 · Environment+60 moreRocky Mountain Institute: $3,364,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Institut…SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $1,300,610 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTU…INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS: $798,605 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $600,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $575,000 · OtherWestern Resource Advocates: $1,207,138 · OtherWestern Resource Advoca…THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $550,000 · Other+70 more: $6,917,266 · Other+70 moreUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $6,900,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATE…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $753,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER …+3 more: $140,350 · PhilanthropyGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $3,050,500 · Community ImprovementGREAT PLA…PROJECT EQUITY: $1,010,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT E…SOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $743,110 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN …CAROLINAS CLEAN ENERGY BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST POWER POOL: $250,000 · Community Improvement+14 more: $538,794 · Community Improvement+14 moreAmerican Council On Renewable Energy: $4,798,663 · Science & Tech+1 more: $42,420 · Science & TechNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS: $1,180,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,177,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTE: $500,000 · EducationNew York University: $388,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $320,687 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $146,000 · Education+10 more: $342,910 · EducationTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $795,551 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $525,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $300,000 · InternationalTRANSFAIR USA: $168,000 · InternationalPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $124,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM: $92,000 · InternationalBUILDON INC: $84,000 · InternationalMETRO JUSTICE OF ROCHESTER INC: $79,283 · International+1 more: $20,084 · International
Environment$32,099,601Other$15,312,619Philanthropy$7,793,350Community Improvement$5,842,404Science & Tech$4,841,083Education$4,305,097International$2,188,418

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $6,900,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Council On Renewable Energy: $4,798,663 over 2y, 26% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $3,364,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $3,050,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetAMERICANS FOR A CLEAN ENERGY GRID INC: $2,984,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,513,292 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $2,244,408 over 3y, 80% of budgetGridLab Inc: $1,675,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE INC: $1,362,650 over 2y, 47% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute: $1,350,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $1,300,610 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCE BUYERS INSTITUTE: $1,300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Inc: $1,255,415 over 2y, 28% of budgetAcadia Center: $1,250,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $1,207,138 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS: $1,180,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,177,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Energy Network: $1,117,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,095,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRIDWORKS ORGANIZATION: $1,050,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetPROJECT EQUITY: $1,010,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $975,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $900,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $865,040 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION GROUP INC: $825,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST: $805,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetINSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS: $798,605 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $795,551 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $753,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $743,110 over 2y, 35% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $647,290 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $598,873 over 3y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $575,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $550,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $525,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WAVE FOUNDATION: $472,470 over 1y, 26% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $456,138 over 1y, 61% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $436,198 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetReef Fish Conservation and Education Foundation Inc: $413,508 over 2y, 40% of budgetFARM-TO-POWER INC: $400,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $390,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNew York University: $388,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL INVESTMENT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT: $386,501 over 1y, 60% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $360,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

United States Energy …The Energy FoundationThe David and Lucile …Windward FundWalton Family Foundat…The Heising-Simons Fo…Natural Resources Def…Climate Imperative Fo…Environmental Defense…PatagoniaorgThe William & Flora H…Tides Foundation
United States Energy FoundationCA54× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Multiplier funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Multiplier. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Moonshot Missions Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Northwest Power Pool: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Food Roots: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 203 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home