· Public charity
North American Association for Environmental Educa
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $698k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $204k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $162k to organizations and $43k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFEarth Force Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $721k · revenue +2%
- AWAMERICA'S WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR RESOURCE EDUCATION4× · 2021–2024 · $422k · revenue +44% · 31% of their budget
- CFCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $213k · revenue +32%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGONone grant, 2017 · $72k
- CFCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIESone grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.
Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.
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. we work with educators, policymakers, and partners aroung the world.
MAEOE encourages,engages and empowers the community to understand, responsibly use and promote the natural world. MAEOE is a nonprofit educational association, serving thousands of teachers, natural resource managers, nature center staff…
Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP) promotes environmental stewardship by connecting students to their community and local environment through comprehensive watershed education and service learning projects.
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…
To protect and sustain the unique lands, waters, and biodiversity of west marin.
Environmental education.
To conduct pure and applied research, provide both structured education programs and information in non-instructional formats for individuals, organizations, and governance interested in and dependent upon the coastal and marine…
Manomet uses science and collaboration to improve the health of flyways, coastal ecosystems, and working lands and seas.
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Force Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR RESOURCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Diversity and the Environment ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds LEARNING ENDEAVORS ↗
- Who funds EDADVANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALEM SOUND 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens Environmental Coalition Educational Fund ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Flint River Watershed Coalition ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERSON DELLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Environmental Science Center ↗
- Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF REINSTEIN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR THE WATER WORKS ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Marine Sanctuary Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Jacques M Littlefield Foundation · National Academy of Sciences · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Denver Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North American Association for Environmental Educa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North American Association for Environmental Educa. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dream in Green Inc: 58% of income from government
- Edadvance: 41% of income from government
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
- Salem Sound 2000 Inc: 20% of income from government
- Florida Memorial University Inc: 11% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc: 2% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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