NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA

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NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA

Q: How much did NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA grant in FY2024?

NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA reported 40 grants totaling $1,531,844 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Q: Where is NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA based?

NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA is based in DC.

The mission of naaee is to use the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create a more equitable and sustainable future.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$229k

Largest

01What you fund

0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$4.3MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$721kAnimals$493kArts & Culture$238kScience & Tech$111kPhilanthropy$110kInternational$100kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$1.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

flint riverriver watershedprotecteducationalchesapeake baydeveloppacific

2021

flint riverriver watershedcecdiverseadvocacyeducationalprotect

2022

educationalcecdiverseadvocacyagesprotectwatershed

2023

vaeestemexcellence fosteringfostering collaborationdivisions engagedprofessionalswomen aviation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $94k
$10k–50k18 grants · $389k
$50k–250k7 grants · $698k

$13,926

Median grant

States reached

$8.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE SF$229,426
PROJECT WET FOUNDATION$129,908
EARTH FORCE$94,175
AMERICAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR$82,349
LEARNING ENDEAVORS$57,946
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUS$53,799
TEN STRANDS$50,000
EARTHTEAM$44,418
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND$43,114
ARTIST BOAT$40,746
EDADVANCE$32,694
CENTER FOR DIVERSITY AND THE ENVIRO$31,680
TECHBRIDGE GIRLS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$20,650
FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY$17,862

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.8M · 50 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.8M

$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+170%

Still filing today

82%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR DIVERSITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
8× · 2017–2024 · $371k · revenue +45%
AU
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND
8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +23%
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2020 · $298k · revenue +32%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $213k · revenue +32%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
one grant, 2017 · $72k
CF
CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +97%

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

04Your 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.

North American Association for Environmental Educa

The mission of north american association for environmental education is to use the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create a more equitable and sustainable future. we work with educators,…

Environment

San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision-making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment

Ecological Society of America

Environment

Ecology Learning Center

The mission of the ecology learning center is to deeply root students in Maine's ecological & cultural landscapes, foster authentic real-world learning through mentorship & craft, and cultivate compassionate and resilient leaders prepared…

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International Society for Environmental

Dissemination of scientific information through annual conferences, journals and the organization's website.

Arts & Culture

Earth Education

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Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Educate policymakers about equitable science-based solutions for climate, energy, & the environment

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Wildlife Ecology Institute

Advance wildlife management and conservation through applied research and education activities.

Environment

Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment

Unity Environmental University

Education

Confluence Environmental Center

Confluence Environmental Center's mission is to bring together streams of thought, action and people to make the environmental movement more robust, inclusive and effective. We launched operations in September of 2011 as a project of the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stroud Water Research Center and the most unlike its peers is Allegheny College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/73

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,492

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.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/60

Grantees still filing

48/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$4,277,784Other$1,428,459Education$1,197,237Human Services$721,293Animals$493,290Arts & Culture$238,404Science & Tech$110,768

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.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Conservation Nation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 organisation NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~85 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473274539 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on STANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 85 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to North American Association for Environmental Educa?

Find your warmest path to North American Association for Environmental Educa through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to North American Association for Environmental Educa?

More from the funding graph

NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to North American Association for Environmental Educa?

More from the funding graph