· Public charity
Resources Legacy Fund
RESOURCES LEGACY FUND builds alliances that advance bold solutions to secure a just and resilient world for people and nature.
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 $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k121 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k148 grants · $16M
- $250k+48 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND | $1,397,152 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT | $1,325,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC | $1,050,000 |
| EARTHWORKS | $1,000,000 |
| AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON | $952,800 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED INC | $759,747 |
| CLEAN AIR COUNCIL | $750,000 |
| TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE | $658,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC | $633,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $625,000 |
| STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE | $600,000 |
| HEALTHY GULF | $600,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION | $590,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $586,000 |
| THE RAND CORPORATION | $576,609 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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
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 +61% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
409 repeat relationships: 243 still active in FY2024, 166 since wound down; 74 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY7× · 2017–2023 · $7.4M · revenue +143% · 57% of their budget
EARTHJUSTICE3× · 2022–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +26%- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +133%
Funded once
- TSTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIOone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
- TETHE ENERGY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -1%
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $690k · revenue +79%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To create a california where balancing economic growth and environmental protection is not only a vision, but also a reality.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
How this is measured
671 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 671 of the 772 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA DESERT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE POWER EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PARKS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN FISH AND WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Rogue Basin Partnership ↗
- Who funds Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ↗
- Who funds Earthworks ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COAST SUSTAINABLE SALMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Clean Air Council ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds Orange County Coastkeeper ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds California Coastal Protection Network ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 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: Western Conservation Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Wilderness Society · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Marisla Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Water Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Partnership Project Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Wilburforce Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Resources Legacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Resources Legacy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sustainable Northwest: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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