California · Private foundation
Sea Change 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.
- $37M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $209M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Sea Change Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $37M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $43M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $40M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $41M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $40M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $42M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $12M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $43M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Energy Foundation | $129,950,000 | 6 | 14% |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $29,487,500 | 6 | 23% |
| The Partnership Project Inc | $24,525,000 | 7 | 18% |
| The Energy Foundation | $17,464,999 | 2 | 12% |
| American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy | $9,850,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Building Decarbonization Coalition | $9,500,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $8,000,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Vote Solar | $7,200,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Regulatory Assistance Project | $7,100,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Potential Energy Coalition Inc | $6,500,000 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sea Change Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United States Energy Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Sequoia Climate Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sea Change Foundation
- How much does Sea Change Foundation give?
- Sea Change Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $37,350,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sea Change Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (76%), Philanthropy (7%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Sea Change Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United States Energy Foundation ($130M), League of Conservation Voters Education Fund ($29M), The Partnership Project Inc ($25M).
- Does Sea Change Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sea Change Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sea Change Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, The Heising-Simons Foundation, Climate Imperative Foundation.
- Where is Sea Change Foundation based?
- Sea Change Foundation is based in CA.
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