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Washington, D.C. · 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)

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 45
Itemized grants FY2025: 38
Organizations funded FY2024: 66%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $956k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $13,172
Largest grant, FY2025: $91,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 49; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 21
Total assets, FY2025: $859k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 66% of the organizations National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	41	$900k	80%
FY2024	38	$825k	66%
FY2023	49	$959k	65%
FY2022	44	$886k	68%
FY2021	26	$434k	54%
FY2020	19	$317k	63%
FY2019	23	$294k	83%
FY2018	26	$278k	50%

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.7MRecreation & Sports$321kAnimals$235kEducation$196kArts & Culture$150kPhilanthropy$127kScience & Tech$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$104kOther$0

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc	$237,500	7	1%
Fund for the City of New York Inc	$165,000	4	0%
Conservation Legacy	$164,996	1	0%
DC Public Schools	$124,545	2	n/a
Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park	$111,640	4	1%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$100,000	1	0%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy	$95,542	1	1%
University of Southern Indiana	$91,000	1	n/a
South Yuba River Citizens League	$84,907	3	1%
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	$75,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc	$237,500	7	1%
Fund for the City of New York Inc	$165,000	4	0%
Conservation Legacy	$164,996	1	0%
DC Public Schools	$124,545	2	n/a
Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park	$111,640	4	1%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$100,000	1	0%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy	$95,542	1	1%
University of Southern Indiana	$91,000	1	n/a
South Yuba River Citizens League	$84,907	3	1%
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	$75,000	1	n/a
Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In	$75,000	1	3%
Salmon Valley Stewardship Inc	$71,700	1	14%
Timucuan Parks Foundation Inc	$68,837	5	12%
Monarch Joint Venture	$67,722	1	n/a
Tennessee State Parks Conservancy	$67,600	1	1%
Colorado National Monument Association	$67,368	2	10%
Josephine Torres Cultural and Community Center	$65,000	1	12%
San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust	$64,750	1	2%
Birds of Prey Nca Partnership	$64,742	3	54%
Commonwealth of Kentucky	$63,875	1	n/a
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy	$62,500	4	2%
Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium	$60,250	1	1%
San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation	$57,376	3	7%
Santa Monica Mountains Rcd	$57,000	1	n/a
Shenandoah National Park Assoc Inc	$56,300	2	2%
Crystal Cove Conservancy	$55,000	3	1%
Mountain Studies Institue	$53,873	4	1%
Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park	$51,598	4	0%
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc	$51,000	2	4%
Discovery Education Inc	$48,500	1	n/a
Florida Three Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc	$46,703	6	0%
Trinity Park Conservancy	$45,000	2	0%
Texas A&M University	$44,430	4	n/a
Big Thicket Association	$41,533	3	10%
District of Columbia Government	$40,000	2	n/a
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy	$40,000	2	0%
Teaneck Creek Conservancy Inc	$37,476	2	15%
C&O Canal Trust Inc	$35,500	2	3%
Friends of Saguaro National Park	$35,296	3	2%
The Alliance for Florida's National Parks Inc	$30,884	2	2%
Amigos de El Yunque Inc	$30,500	2	6%
Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens	$29,165	2	5%
Builders of Hope CDC	$28,000	1	0%
Mississippi Park Connection	$27,144	3	1%
Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks	$27,071	2	5%
Colorado Canyons Association	$26,000	3	2%
Pinnacles National Park Foundation Pinnacles Partnership	$25,717	2	n/a
Bay Area Discovery Museum	$25,093	2	0%
The Fairfax County Park Foundation Inc	$25,083	2	3%
Corazon Latino Inc	$25,000	3	2%
North Scott Community Schools	$25,000	2	n/a
Mississippi National Guard	$24,364	2	n/a
Santa Monica Mountains Fund	$22,495	2	1%
Resources for Indian Student Education	$22,000	2	14%
Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program	$21,880	2	1%
Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes	$21,482	2	n/a
Rosie the Riveter Trust	$21,126	2	2%
Sequoia Parks Conservancy	$21,034	2	0%
Joint Base Lewis-McChord Environmental Division Fish & Wildlife	$20,936	2	n/a
Craters of the Moon Natural History Asso	$20,775	2	6%
Environment for the Americas Inc	$20,310	2	0%
Operation Green Team Foundation	$20,000	1	5%
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science	$20,000	2	0%
Minneapolis Public School	$20,000	1	n/a
Sojourner Truth School	$20,000	2	0%
Mississippi River Water Trail Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Greensboro	$20,000	1	n/a
Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Emerson Taylor Bradley School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Trail Access Project	$20,000	1	n/a
Rochester Accessible Adventures	$20,000	1	20%
Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Montana State Parks Foundation	$20,000	1	6%
City of Montague	$20,000	1	n/a
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Student Conservation Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Discovery Center Great Lakes	$20,000	1	1%
Amigos de Los Rios	$19,965	1	1%
MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD Camp Ripley Viking Club	$19,800	1	20%
Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy Inc	$19,700	1	22%
Northwest Youth Corps	$19,389	1	0%
Oregon Military Department	$18,046	1	n/a
Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park	$17,642	2	11%
Shawnee Resource Conservation & Dev	$17,500	1	5%
Alcoa City Schools	$17,500	2	n/a
Knox County Schools	$17,500	2	n/a
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation	$17,000	1	1%
Arizona Trail Association	$15,363	1	2%
Mockingbird Incubator	$15,000	1	1%
North Carolina National Guard	$15,000	1	1%
Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation	$15,000	2	0%
Girltrek Incorporated	$15,000	1	1%
Bellows Air Force Station	$15,000	1	n/a
Idaho Public Television	$15,000	1	n/a
Rocky Mountain Conservancy	$15,000	1	0%
Sonoma Ecology Center	$14,950	1	0%
Little Rock Air Force Base	$14,934	1	n/a
National Mall and Memorial Parks	$14,742	1	n/a
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi	$14,329	1	n/a
Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards	$14,276	1	2%
Fairfield County School District	$14,000	1	n/a
Fort Sill Natural Resources Branch	$14,000	1	n/a
Montana Audubon	$13,736	1	1%
US Naval Academy	$13,207	1	n/a
Paepae O He'Eia	$13,168	1	1%
Applegate Partnership Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Poplar School District	$12,000	1	n/a
Appomattox 1865 Foundation	$11,250	1	n/a
Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach	$11,000	1	n/a
Green Field Nursery Inc	$10,390	1	n/a
Wilderness Inquiry Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Gateway to the Great Outdoors	$10,000	1	4%
Lancaster-Lebanon Education Foundat	$10,000	1	10%
Camp Ripley Mwr	$10,000	1	n/a
Military Mobility	$10,000	1	n/a
Greenwell Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Reel Guppy Outdoors Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Adventure Cycling Association	$10,000	1	0%
This Is My Quest Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Lancaster Education Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Bilingual Education Collective	$10,000	1	6%
Prince William Public Schools	$10,000	1	n/a
Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association	$10,000	1	0%
The California Desert Land Conservancy	$10,000	1	0%
Horizon Education Centers	$10,000	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of the Front Range Wildlife Refuges	$9,993	1	2%
Adventure 360	$9,900	1	n/a
Friends of the National Arboretum	$9,765	1	0%
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center	$9,755	1	n/a
Smokies Life	$9,750	1	0%
Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance Inc	$9,746	1	4%
Cabrillo National Monument Foundation	$9,740	1	1%
McKenzie Watershed Alliance	$9,700	1	n/a
Guardian Revival Inc	$9,660	1	0%
Hubbard Brook Research Foundation	$9,600	1	2%
Sunny Wolf Charter School	$9,500	1	1%
Veterans One-Stop Center of Wny Inc	$9,500	1	0%
Navfac Southeast Naval Station Mayport Public Works Dept	$9,016	1	n/a
Northern Rhode Island Cd	$8,966	1	n/a
Grow	$8,000	1	3%
Hermann Park Conservancy	$8,000	1	0%
Friends of the Chicago River	$8,000	1	0%
Rocky Mountain Wild	$7,900	1	2%
The Institute for Environmental Solutions	$7,858	1	n/a
Fort Leavenworth	$7,822	1	n/a
Friends of Homestead National Historic Park	$7,711	1	9%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods	$7,700	1	n/a
Great Basin Institute	$7,534	1	0%
Montana Discovery Foundation	$7,500	1	4%
Friends of the Casa Grande Ruins	$7,500	1	n/a
Holani Hana Inc	$7,200	1	1%
Bolsa Chica Conservancy	$7,000	1	1%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$7,000	1	0%
NJ Dept of Environmental Protection	$7,000	1	n/a
Neighborspace	$7,000	1	1%
R E Davis College Prep	$7,000	1	n/a
Free Home Elementary School	$7,000	1	n/a
Richland School District Two	$7,000	1	n/a
Earth Island Institute Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Public Lands Alliance	$6,950	1	n/a
Protectors of Tule Springs	$6,900	1	n/a
Recreation Fund Uss Nantucket	$6,750	1	n/a
National Aquarium Inc	$6,500	1	0%
US Army - Fort Carson	$6,500	1	n/a
Bureau of Land Managment	$6,422	1	n/a
Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc	$6,350	1	0%
Sere Training Facility Warner Springs Naval Base Coronado	$6,224	1	n/a
Naval Air Station Key West	$6,181	1	n/a
Guam Coral Reef Initiative	$6,000	1	n/a
The City Project	$6,000	1	n/a
Church's Garden Center and Farms Inc	$5,779	1	n/a
Barker Creek Nursery Landscaping Inc	$5,524	1	n/a
Greater Arkansas River Nature Assoc	$5,443	1	1%
Olympic Park Associates	$5,241	1	16%
Fort Riley Military Reservation	$5,200	1	n/a

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($365k), not named here.

National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 110 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 110.

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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.

National Park FoundationDC64.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc

How much does National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc give?: National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc reported 45 itemized grants totaling $955,511, out of $1,096,538 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Animals (5%).
Who are National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Land Trust of North Alabama Inc ($238k), Fund for the City of New York Inc ($165k), Conservation Legacy ($165k).
Does National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Park Foundation, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc based?: National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc is based in DC.