· Private foundation
Sand County Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENERATION CITIZEN | $40,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $25,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $20,000 |
| CERES INC | $20,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $14,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of its 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.
15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +12%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +202%- CICERES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- EDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE EDF CLIMATE CORPS GRANTone grant, 2018 · $30k
- TMTHE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF MILTONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TMTHE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF VERMONTone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To safeguard the public from health hazards that impact families, workers, and the environment
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Environment Massachusetts Research and Policy Center's mission is to pursue solutions to environmental issues affecting the people of Massachusetts.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 20 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.
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Environmental Health ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Environmental Law Institute ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Deer Hill Foundation ↗
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: 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 Sand County Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sand County Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Emerson College: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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