How much did ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE grant in FY2023?

Environment$5.4MInternational$725kEducation$201kPublic Benefit$198kHealth$198kCommunity Improvement$145kHousing & Shelter$108kScience & Tech$50kHuman Services$15kOther$3.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

impactstandardroomunitssoldtodayincentivize residential

2021

five

2022

philadelphiacapitaltransportationicctinvolvebusinessdrive

2023

statesmakingleadersexistingaffordabilityprovidereducational

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k3 grants · $108k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
$250k+6 grants · $3.0M

$108,333

Median grant

States reached

$141M

Total assets

Largest grants

Mission Possible Partnership$796,250
Buildings Decarbonization Coalition$500,000
Association for Energy Affordability Inc$437,780
ADL Ventures LLC$423,742
Resource Legacy Fund (Climate Mayors)$400,000
World Resources Institute$400,000
David Baker Architects$215,283
Solutions Projects Inc$200,000
Carbon Mapper Inc$199,895
American Lung Association$198,000
US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund$198,000
Columbia University$155,000
National Housing Trust$108,333
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy$108,333
We Mean Business Coalition$100,000

02The need

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 (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 9 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%

+620%

Still filing today

67%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

RL
Resource Legacy Fund (Climate Mayors)
2× · 2022–2023 · $800k · revenue +63%
World Resources Institute
2× · 2022–2023 · $725k · revenue +91%
New Buildings Institute
2× · 2022–2023 · $395k · revenue +102%

Funded once

GL
GISTEARTH LLC
one grant, 2021 · $815k
GL
GISTEarth LLC
one grant, 2022 · $300k
CM
CANARY MEDIAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +150%

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.

The Climate Group Inc

Climate group brings together networks of international businesses and governments to shift markets toward the goal of a world of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with greater prosperity for all.

Environment

Coalition for Green Capital

To halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies.

Environment

Terraset

Terraset mission is to reduce greenhouse gases by identifying and supporting the most promising early-stage initiatives that are effectively removing carbon from the air.

Environment

Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc

To support policies that reduce global emissions and improve u.s. competitiveness.

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American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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National Caucus of Environmental

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

Education

American Council of Engineering Companie

The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.

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Allied Climate Partners Inc

Using innovative financing mechanisms to increase the flow of philanthropic catalytic capital to climate-related projects and businesses in emerging markets and developing economies that will have a significant impact on the adverse…

Environment

Climate Leadership Council Inc

To promote the most effective, fair and politically viable climate solutions.

Environment

Climate Breakthrough Inc

To make an outsized impact in resolving the climate crisis by freeing leaders to translate their boldest ideas into transformative climate action that swiftly and justly closes the gap between the world today and a sustainable future.

Human Services

Center for Energy and Environment

The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is a clean energy nonprofit with decades of special expertise in energy efficiency. Working in homes, buildings, and communities, CEE discovers and deploys the most effective energy solutions to…

Environment

E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Mean Business Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carbon Mapper Inc. 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.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/44

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,521

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

27/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$5,427,670Other$3,191,949International$725,000Education$201,300Public Benefit$198,000Health$198,000Community Improvement$145,000

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.

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.

United States Energy FoundationCA25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Climate Imperative Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Tides Foundation · World Resources Institute · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard 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 organisation ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEMBROKE HOPKINS PARK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 7.2× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824485492 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PEMBROKE HOPKINS PARK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rocky Mountain Institute?

Find your warmest path to Rocky Mountain Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rocky Mountain Institute?

More from the funding graph

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rocky Mountain Institute?

More from the funding graph