How much does Nrdc Action Fund Inc give?

Nrdc Action Fund Inc reported 24 grants totaling $6,285,299 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Nrdc Action Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Community Improvement (1%), Civil Rights (1%).

Who are Nrdc Action Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nrdc Action Votes ($7.8M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($4.7M), Givegreen United Action ($2.0M).

Does Nrdc Action Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nrdc Action Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, Energy Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

Where is Nrdc Action Fund Inc based?

Nrdc Action Fund Inc is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Nrdc Action Fund Inc

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

$6.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 52%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,560,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 21; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Nrdc Action Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$6.3M	57%
FY2024	21	$3.5M	52%
FY2023	20	$4.1M	65%
FY2022	21	$1.7M	57%
FY2021	20	$2.0M	90%
FY2019	14	$689k	79%
FY2018	12	$866k	83%
FY2017	6	$446k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nrdc Action Votes	$7,751,842	5	n/a
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$4,708,324	7	2%
Givegreen United Action	$2,000,000	3	n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$935,761	5	0%
Lcv Victory Fund	$335,000	1	n/a
Multiplier	$260,000	4	0%
Development Now for Chicago	$200,000	1	n/a
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation	$185,000	2	2%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc	$137,000	2	3%
Vote Save America	$127,500	1	n/a

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All grantees of Nrdc Action Fund Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nrdc Action Votes	$7,751,842	5	n/a
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$4,708,324	7	2%
Givegreen United Action	$2,000,000	3	n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$935,761	5	0%
Lcv Victory Fund	$335,000	1	n/a
Multiplier	$260,000	4	0%
Development Now for Chicago	$200,000	1	n/a
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation	$185,000	2	2%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc	$137,000	2	3%
Vote Save America	$127,500	1	n/a
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc	$120,000	1	2%
Pa Alliance Action	$115,000	4	1%
Georgia League of Conservation Voters	$100,000	2	5%
The Partnership Project Action Fund	$100,000	2	1%
BlueGreen Alliance Inc	$100,000	1	4%
Nrcm Action Fund	$99,300	1	n/a
Environmental Defense Action Fund	$97,954	2	0%
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania	$96,500	3	3%
Sierra Club	$87,961	3	0%
Protect US Families	$80,000	1	n/a
SixOneForward	$80,000	1	n/a
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment Inc	$75,000	3	8%
Alaska Wilderness League Action	$70,000	1	n/a
Rethink Energy Nj a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation	$65,000	1	10%
Environment America Inc	$65,000	2	0%
Conservation Colorado	$55,000	1	3%
America Votes	$53,300	5	0%
Moving NJ Together (NJ)	$50,000	1	n/a
Opportunity City Political Action Committee	$50,000	1	5%
Nueva Esperanza Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Unidosus Action Fund Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future	$50,000	1	2%
Center for Energy and Environment	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Innovative Policy	$50,000	1	n/a
The Partnership Project Inc	$45,000	1	0%
Clean Air California	$40,000	1	n/a
Clean Air Clean Energy Washington	$40,000	1	n/a
New Jersey Priorities	$40,000	1	36%
State Democracy Action Fund	$40,000	2	2%
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance	$40,000	1	4%
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project	$37,500	1	2%
Womens March Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Fresh Energy	$30,000	1	1%
Ghisallo Cycling Initiative	$30,000	1	4%
Farm Training Collective NYC Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers	$27,000	1	1%
Frack Action Fund Inc	$25,000	1	6%
NC Futures Action Fund	$25,000	1	10%
Community Partners	$25,000	1	0%
Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund	$25,000	1	2%
Sustainable Markets Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
NMVC Action Fund	$25,000	1	12%
California Environmental Voters	$25,000	1	1%
Pp Virginia Political Action Committee	$25,000	1	n/a
Colorado People's Alliance	$25,000	1	2%
Bicycle Colorado	$23,000	1	1%
Committee for Clean Water Natural Resources and Parks	$20,000	1	n/a
Iowa Farmers Union	$20,000	1	n/a
Illinois Environmental Council General Fund	$20,000	2	2%
NAACP Co Mt Wy State Area Conference	$20,000	1	n/a
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc	$17,725	1	2%
Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund	$16,000	1	3%
Ohio Citizen Action	$15,000	1	1%
The Ohio Environmental Council	$15,000	1	0%
Climate Power	$15,000	1	0%
Real Results for Pennsylvania	$15,000	1	0%
Progressnow Colorado Education	$15,000	1	1%
Logic Action	$15,000	1	n/a
Vote Yes to Reform the New Mexico Prc	$15,000	1	n/a
Harambee House Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Renew Oregon Action Fund	$15,000	1	6%
Pesticide Action Network North America	$14,500	2	0%
Clean Energy Project Inc	$14,000	1	8%
Minnesota Farmers Union	$10,000	1	n/a
Vet Voice Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Blue Planet Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Healthy Air and Water Colorado Action	$10,000	1	12%
Pennsylvania 2024	$10,000	1	0%
Alianza Leadership Institute	$10,000	1	2%
Division of Homeland Ministry	$10,000	1	n/a
Earthjustice Action	$10,000	1	0%
Keep Denver Strong	$10,000	1	n/a
JB Inauguration Committee 2023	$10,000	1	0%
International Children Assistance Network Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Veggielution	$10,000	1	0%
Californians for Safe Reliable Infrastructure	$10,000	1	n/a
1K Women Strong Inc	$9,000	1	1%
Montana Wildlife Fund	$8,300	1	n/a
Pennenvironment Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Faith in Public Life Action Fund	$7,000	1	2%
Wild Montana Action Fund	$6,000	1	5%
Citizens Utility Board	$6,000	1	1%
California Democratic Party	$6,000	1	n/a
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc	$5,500	1	1%

Nrdc Action Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 68.

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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.

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

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.

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About Nrdc Action Fund Inc

How much does Nrdc Action Fund Inc give?: Nrdc Action Fund Inc reported 24 grants totaling $6,285,299 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Nrdc Action Fund Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Community Improvement (1%), Civil Rights (1%).
Who are Nrdc Action Fund Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nrdc Action Votes ($7.8M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($4.7M), Givegreen United Action ($2.0M).
Does Nrdc Action Fund Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nrdc Action Fund Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, Energy Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Where is Nrdc Action Fund Inc based?: Nrdc Action Fund Inc is based in NY.