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· Public charity

Nextgen Climate America Inc

Fights to advance policies and programs that focus on equity and justice for all californians.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$507k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$10MPublic Benefit$5.5MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$975kCrime & Legal$742kCivil Rights$503kHealth$144kPhilanthropy$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,013,682, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,051,732 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,050 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $419k
  • $250k+1 grant · $507k
$154,779
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND$507,200
CLIMATE CHANGEMAKERS$160,453
THE NEXT 50 ACTION$154,779
STUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTER (SDCC)$103,750
YOUNG INVINCIBLES$43,750
SHARED ASCENT FUND$43,750
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 (FY17–20, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOMALI-BANTU ASSOC OF AMERICA: $10k → 11%AFFECT REAL CHANGE: $6k → 24%THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 10%LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER INC: $24k → 12%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $155k → 10%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

NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
AZ
NC
DC
LA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 17 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
43

Total granted

$15M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8.3M · revenue +782% · 55% of their budget
  • NE
    NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.7M · revenue ×28 · 100% of their budget
  • SD
    STUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $673k · revenue +579% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
  • TO
    THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -92%
  • CS
    Civic Space Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $232k · revenue +189%
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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
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
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

—
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
The California Architectural Foundation

The California Architectural Foundation promotes healthy and sustainable communities through support of research and education.

—
7
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

—
9
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
10
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
11
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Student Debt Crisis Center. 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

64 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. 64 of the 65 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
50/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION: $8,325,659 · OtherNEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTIONSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTER: $673,206 · OtherSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTERTHE VIRGINIA CLIMATE PROGRAM: $373,646 · Other+23 more: $902,735 · Other+23 moreNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $4,660,918 · Civil RightsNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUNDTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $221,497 · Civil Rights+8 more: $312,114 · Civil Rights+8 moreTHE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $155,000 · Human Services+5 more: $80,000 · Human ServicesUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $380,000 · EducationCivic Space Foundation: $232,276 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $77,500 · EducationSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS: $75,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationFreedom Through Education: $40,000 · Education+3 more: $35,000 · EducationThe Partnership Project Inc: $322,500 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Action Fund: $150,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentGREENFAITH INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Water Center: $35,000 · EnvironmentClimate Action Reserve: $30,000 · Environment+2 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentHOPEWELL FUND: $225,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS: $58,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,275,246Civil Rights$5,194,529Human Services$1,235,000International$1,000,000Education$880,276Environment$837,500Philanthropy$353,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION: $8,325,659 over 2y, 55% of budgetNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $4,660,918 over 4y, 100% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS CENTER: $673,206 over 4y, 81% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $380,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA CLIMATE PROGRAM: $373,646 over 2y, 51% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $322,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCivic Space Foundation: $232,276 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $225,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $221,497 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $155,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $77,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT DEBT CRISIS: $75,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED ASCENT FUND: $68,427 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $68,427 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS: $58,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom Through Education: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $38,335 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetClimate Action Reserve: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISPANAS ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY - CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CLIMATE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSomali Bantu Association of America: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALCHEMIST CDC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO STUDIES CENTE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The California Endowm…The California Wellne…Latino Community Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…California Community …East Bay Community Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…Tides FoundationSierra Health Foundat…Weingart FoundationNextgen Climate ActionThe David and Lucile …
The California EndowmentCA33.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Weingart Foundation · Nextgen Climate Action · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Nextgen Climate America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nextgen Climate America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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, 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.
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How do I get to Nextgen Climate America Inc?

Find your warmest path to Nextgen Climate America Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 65 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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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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