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Nrdc Action Fund Inc

To build political support for advancing the goals of the natural resources defense council.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$19MCommunity Improvement$275kCivil Rights$217kPublic Benefit$174kEducation$150kInternational$60kReligion$45kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $873k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.2M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NRDC ACTION VOTES$3,560,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$878,324
GIVEGREEN UNITED ACTION$750,000
DEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO$200,000
VOTE SAVE AMERICA$127,500
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$110,000
MULTIPLIER$100,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$100,000
PROTECT US FAMILIES$80,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA$55,000
CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY$50,000
MOVING NJ TOGETHER INC$50,000
NEW JERSEY PRIORITIES$40,000
CALIFORNIA COASTKEEPER DBA CALIFORNIA COASTKEEPER ALLIANCE$40,000
COMMITTEE FOR CLEAN WATER NATURAL RESOURCES AND PARKS$20,000
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 (FY22–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HARAMBEE HOUSE INC: $15k → 16%RETHINK ENERGY NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $65k → 5%ALLIANCE OF THE SOUTHEAST: $10k → 14%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $25k → 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

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MT
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IL
MI
NY
OR
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IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
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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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 20 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
61

Total granted

$17M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
0%

Still filing today

90%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $683k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +388%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $936k · revenue +37%
  • MULTIPLIER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • LV
    LCV VICTORY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $335k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BlueGreen Alliance Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
2
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
3
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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4
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
5
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
6
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
7
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

Environment
8
Center for Environmental Accountability

The Center for Environmental Accountability (CEA) is a not-for-profit organization that educates Americans on the importance of transparency and accountability in environmental and energy policy. CEA's work is informed by its core…

Environment
9
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
10
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
11
Electoral Collective Action

Electoral Collective Action coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Inc and the most unlike its peers is SixOneForward. 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 backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%58%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
4/94
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,471

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

79 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. 79 of the 94 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/79
Grantees still filing
34/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NRDC ACTION VOTES — $7,751,842 · OtherNRDC ACTION VOTESGIVEGREEN UNITED ACTION — $2,000,000 · OtherGIVEGREEN UNITED ACTION+44 more — $1,864,061 · Other+44 moreLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $4,708,324 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTER…+6 more — $222,000 · Civil RightsNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $935,761 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOU…MULTIPLIER — $260,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIERBlueGreen Alliance Foundation — $185,000 · EnvironmentBlueGreen All…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $137,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resou…BlueGreen Alliance Inc — $100,000 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Action Fund — $100,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $97,954 · Environment+19 more — $517,225 · Environment+19 moreDEVELOPMENT NOW FOR CHICAGO — $200,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes — $53,300 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — $15,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $20,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $120,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY PRIORITIES — $40,000 · EducationFARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC — $30,000 · EducationBICYCLE COLORADO — $23,000 · EducationRETHINK ENERGY NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $65,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Human ServicesHarambee House Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesAlianza Leadership Institute — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $75,000 · Religion
Other$11,615,903Civil Rights$4,930,324Environment$2,332,940Community Improvement$313,300Education$213,000Human Services$115,000Religion$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $4,708,324 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $935,761 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $260,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation — $185,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $137,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $120,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $115,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS — $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $97,954 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Voters of Pennsylvania — $96,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $87,961 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRETHINK ENERGY NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $65,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO — $55,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmerica Votes — $53,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConservatives for a Clean Energy Future — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNueva Esperanza Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpportunity City Political Action Committee — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNIDOSUS ACTION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCalifornia Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance — $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNEW JERSEY PRIORITIES — $40,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSOUTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT — $37,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWomens March Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGHISALLO CYCLING INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $27,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNMVC Action Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNC Futures Action Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFRACK ACTION FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO — $23,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL GENERAL FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC — $17,725 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNevada Conservation League Ed Fund — $16,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOHIO CITIZEN ACTION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHarambee House Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetREAL RESULTS FOR PENNSYLVANIA — $15,000 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.

Natural Resources Def…Energy Action FundSixteen Thirty FundUnited States Energy …League of Conservatio…Environmental Defense…Green Advocacy ProjectThe Energy FoundationResources Legacy FundSierra ClubNew Venture FundWestern Conservation …
Natural Resources Defense Council IncNY57.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Energy Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · United States Energy Foundation · League of Conservation Voters Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Green Advocacy Project · The Energy Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Sierra Club · New Venture Fund · Western Conservation Action

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 Nrdc Action Fund Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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