· Private foundation
Safety Systems Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Center for Hlth Environmnt and Just | $4,000 |
| Beyond Nuclear | $4,000 |
| Nuclear Info Resources Service | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Flyersrights | $2,500 |
| American Museum of Tort Law | $2,500 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $2,000 |
| Childrens Advocacy Institute | $2,000 |
| Veterans for Peace | $2,000 |
| Western Org of Resources Council | $2,000 |
| Public Emp for Environmental Respon | $2,000 |
| Beyond Pesticides | $2,000 |
| Woodland Community Land Trust | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +31% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BNBEYOND NUCLEAR5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +43%
- AMAMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +78%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Massachusetts Amherstone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AIAPPALACHIA-SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
- CFCenter for Hlth Environmnt Justiceone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Beyond Toxics protects and enhances human and environmental health. We use environmental justice engagement and community-based environmental grassroots organizing to ensure environmental protection and health for all communities. We…
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Middle eastern environmental issues: to evaluate and monitor environmental issues in the middle east and provide consulting services for public organizations involved in social and economic development, education and health services.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Educating the public regarding the harms of fossil fuels, supporting the movement to end fossil fuels, and addressing the climate emergency through creative communications.
Environmental Law Foundation's (ELF) mission is to protect the environment, communities, and consumers against harmful toxics and other environmental harms. Our work consistently improves environmental quality for those most at risk by…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 24 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
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.
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: Public Safety Research Institute · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Safety Systems Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Safety Systems Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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