· Public charity
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc
The national environmental education and training foundation, doing business as neef, is the nation's leading organization in lifelong environmental learning, creating opportunities for people to experience and learn about the environment (continued on schedule o)
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.
The 40 grants below total $861,704 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $972,957 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,253 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
- Under $10k14 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION LEGACY | $164,996 |
| THE FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $75,000 |
| SALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP | $71,700 |
| KENTUCKY STATE TREASURER - OFFICE OF KENTUCKY NATURE PRESERVES | $63,875 |
| DISCOVERY EDUCATION INC | $48,500 |
| LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA | $40,000 |
| BIRDS OF PREY NCA PARTNERSHIP | $39,742 |
| THE CREATE FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| OREGON MILITARY DEPARTMENT | $18,046 |
| MOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR | $15,000 |
| MONTANA AUDUBON | $13,736 |
| FORT LEAVENWORTH DFMWR | $13,207 |
| ENVIRONMENT FOR THE AMERICAS | $10,400 |
| SOUTH DOYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 25 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k 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
- TLTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +3%
- FOFRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK4× · 2020–2023 · $112k · revenue +81%
SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -20%
- SCSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue +110%
- LOLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -15%
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.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The golden gate national parks conservancy (parks conservancy) serves as the nonprofit partner of the national park service, collaborating with the presidio trust, partners, donors, and the community to support the golden gate national…
To connect young people to the wonder and science of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of our planet.
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
The Official Partner to the Point Reyes National Seashore Since 1964, Point Reyes National Seashore Association focuses on three priorities: Youth Education & access, environmental conservation and building a broad community for the people…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Monica Mountains Fund and the most unlike its peers is Florida Three Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 170 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 THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds SALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TIMUCUAN PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN RIVER PARKWAY & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BIRDS OF PREY NCA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds Big Thicket Association ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Saguaro National Park ↗
- Who funds Florida Three Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE EL YUNQUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KENILWORTH AQUATIC GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Builders of Hope CDC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION ↗
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: National Park Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Forest Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · National Park Trust Inc · The Outdoor Foundation · Conservation Lands Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Community Initiatives
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 Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc 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.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- Mckenzie Watershed Alliance — 100% of income from government
- Applegate Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Florida Three Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc — 53% of income from government
- Sunny Wolf Charter School — 26% of income from government
- Hubbard Brook Research Foundation — 6% of income from government
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% 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.