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National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

$243k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20182024.

Environment$245kEducation$33kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$33k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $174,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $242,657 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,657 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$33,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFER STATES$50,000
NUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT$33,000
NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR$33,000
CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK$33,000
UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE INC$12,500
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR INCINERATOR$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $33k → 14%GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR INCINERATOR: $13k → 10%NUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT: $33k → 23%NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR: $33k → 14%SAFER STATES: $50k → 9%UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $13k → 9%AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $97k → 14%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

3
Ocean Conservancy

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

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
6
Environment Now
7
International Conservation Caucus Network

To advance conservation governance through political will and to provide "on the ground" solutions to ensure sustained economic benefits while managing the earth's natural resource wealth for future generations.

Unclassified
8
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

9
International Council On Environmental Economics and Development Union
Human Services
10
Ocean Recovery Alliance Inc

The mission of Ocean Recovery Alliance is to reduce plastic pollution, both on land and in the water, by creating strategic solutions for governments, industry and communities which lead to long-term, hands-on programs which engage…

Environment
11
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
12
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North American Association for Environmental Educa and the most unlike its peers is Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Ocean Foundation — $136,575 · EnvironmentThe Ocean FoundationTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION — $50,000 · EnvironmentTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITIONNORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA — $33,000 · EnvironmentNORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCAGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives — $12,500 · EnvironmentUpstream Policy Institute Inc — $12,500 · EnvironmentNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $33,000 · OtherNUESTRA TIE…CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK — $33,000 · EducationCHILDREN & …American Sustainable Business Institute Inc — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$244,575Other$33,000Education$33,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $136,575 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $33,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA — $33,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK — $33,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Sustainable Business Institute Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincMD14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Resources Legacy Fund · Tides Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 National Caucus of Environmental Legislators 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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