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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$229k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,180,753 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,531,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $351,091 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 $10k15 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $698k
$13,926
Median grant
24
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

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%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EARTH FORCE INC: $86k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$56k · 27% · 1 grant · 6 people

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR

East Asia and the Pacific$46k · 23% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR

South Asia$36k · 18% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR

North America (Canada and Mexico)$26k · 13% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$25k · 12% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS · ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PR

South America$15k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROJECTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.
$7.5M · 49 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
9

Total granted

$7.5M
$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

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.

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
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

  • EF
    Earth Force Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $721k · revenue +2%
  • AW
    AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR RESOURCE EDUCATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $422k · revenue +44% · 31% of their budget
  • CF
    COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +21%

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 STUDIES
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +24%

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.

1
Earth Education
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2
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
3
San Francisco Estuary Institute

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

Environment
4
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. we work with educators, policymakers, and partners aroung the world.

Environment
5
Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships

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.

Environment
6
Ocean Research and Educational
Science & Tech
7
Wild Spirit Education

Environmental education.

Health
8
Pacific Education Institute

Pei supports educators by specializing in professional learning and fieldstem implementation.

Philanthropy
9
Environment Now
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10
Nature Collective

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…

Environment
11
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
12
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified

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

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%30%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,492

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.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC — $2,008,161 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INCPROJECT WET FOUNDATION INC — $462,308 · EnvironmentPROJECT WET FOUNDATION INCCenter for Diversity and the Environment — $370,895 · EnvironmentCenter for Diversity and the EnvironmentAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — $212,887 · Environment+23 more — $1,223,533 · Environment+23 moreUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $250,418 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORI…EDADVANCE — $132,694 · OtherEDADVANCEUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $93,319 · OtherUniversity of Wisco…St Lucie County — $89,045 · OtherSt Lucie CountyUniversity of New Orleans — $85,821 · OtherUniversity of New O…SEVERSON DELLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $82,359 · OtherSEVERSON DELLS EDUC…CASCADIA CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $74,273 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGON — $71,908 · OtherWEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $61,348 · OtherCITY OF LYNCHBURG — $59,947 · OtherANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $55,903 · OtherMONTANA ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASS — $50,000 · OtherSTANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $99,722 · OtherSTANISLAUS COUNTY O…PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherPACIFIC AMERICAN FO…+12 more — $121,702 · Other+12 moreCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $322,559 · EducationCOALITION FOR TH…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $297,852 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…Cornell University — $194,193 · EducationCornell Universi…LEARNING ENDEAVORS — $157,263 · EducationLEARNING ENDEAVO…FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $92,620 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COA…Techbridge Girls — $50,000 · EducationALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $44,550 · Education+3 more — $38,200 · EducationEarth Force Inc — $721,293 · Human ServicesEarth For…AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR RESOURCE EDUCATION — $421,776 · AnimalsSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $59,463 · Animals+2 more — $12,051 · AnimalsBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $95,040 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $74,883 · Arts & CultureTHE FUND FOR THE WATER WORKS — $56,481 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATI SOCIETY INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $100,768 · Science & TechSCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC — $10,000 · Science & Tech
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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC — $2,008,161 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetEarth Force Inc — $721,293 over 8y, 12% of budgetPROJECT WET FOUNDATION INC — $462,308 over 4y, 23% of budgetAMERICA'S WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOR RESOURCE EDUCATION — $421,776 over 4y, 31% of budgetCenter for Diversity and the Environment — $370,895 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $322,559 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $297,852 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — $212,887 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCornell University — $194,193 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEARNING ENDEAVORS — $157,263 over 4y, 47% of budgetEDADVANCE — $132,694 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION — $113,809 over 4y, 17% of budgetSALEM SOUND 2000 INC — $109,205 over 3y, 18% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $100,768 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCitizens Environmental Coalition Educational Fund — $99,722 over 2y, 26% of budgetSTANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $99,722 over 2y, 73% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $98,230 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOXERWOOD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $95,040 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFlint River Watershed Coalition — $94,336 over 2y, 13% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $92,620 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEVERSON DELLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $82,359 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMaine Audubon Society — $79,192 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC — $74,883 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $65,023 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $61,348 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetEnvironmental Science Center — $60,795 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $59,463 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF REINSTEIN NATURE PRESERVE INC — $57,313 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE WATER WORKS — $56,481 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $55,903 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ENVIROLUTION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTen Strands — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTechbridge Girls — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES — $47,348 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $44,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHTEAM — $44,418 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC — $40,746 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWisconsin Association for Environmental Education Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC — $23,790 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc — $18,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGroundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS — $13,926 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATI SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 Wil…National Marine Sanct…PatagoniaorgJacques M Littlefield…National Academy of S…The Keith Campbell Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…Charles Stewart Mott …The Nature ConservancyThe Denver FoundationTides Foundation
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC24.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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