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Pacific Environmental Coalition
The mission of the organization is to bring about social change and advances in environmental public policy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+4 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $6,700,000 |
| FF PAC | $3,000,000 |
| REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTABILITY PAC | $1,000,000 |
| WORKMONEY INC | $500,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WIWORKMONEY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +397%
- SMSENATE MAJORITY PAC2× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M
- SPSILVERLINING POLICY INC2× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- AACRONYMone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- DDDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHERone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -50%
- PAPACIFIC ATLANTIC ACTION COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $510k · revenue -48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
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.
Energy action fund advocates for a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in public education within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. the corporation may engage in public interest research, policy development, analysis, public education,…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.
ConservAmerica is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of market based energy, environmental, and conservation policy.
Advocate for and reform to climate policies at the national and state level.
Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Americans for Strength and Freedom. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ACRONYM ↗
- Who funds WORKMONEY INC ↗
- Who funds SILVERLINING POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ATLANTIC ACTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Americans for Strength and Freedom ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARPATH ACTION FOR CONSERVATIVE CLEAN ENERGY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MAJORITY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BlueGreen Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Tent Project Fund ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACTION FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Oakw Fund · Bright Future Fund · Impetus Fund · Breakthrough Energy Action Inc · Fund for a Better Future Inc · Future Forward USA Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Our American Future Action · America Votes · Hopewell Fund
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 Pacific Environmental Coalition 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.
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.
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