How much did Sea Change Foundation grant in FY2024?

Sea Change Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $37,350,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Sea Change Foundation based?

Sea Change Foundation is based in CA.

Sea Change Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Private foundation

Sea Change Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$37M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$20M

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$142MEnvironment$86MCrime & Legal$1.6MCivil Rights$1.5MEducation$650kScience & Tech$650kSocial Science$50kOther$70M

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k3 grants · $500k
$250k+6 grants · $37M

$3,000,000

Median grant

States reached

$209M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 91% of reported assets are held in Meritage Holdings Ltd Class A.

Largest grants

UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION$20,100,000
BUILDING DECARBONNIZATION COALITION$5,000,000
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION$3,750,000
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$3,000,000
POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION INC$3,000,000
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$175,000
2030 INC$175,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$150,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$238M · 20 repeat orgs$64M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$238M

$64M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%

+102%

Still filing today

90%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPhilanthropyScience & TechCrime & LegalCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

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

UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $118M · revenue +40%
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LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
5× · 2019–2023 · $26M · revenue +353%
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $22M · revenue +25%

Funded once

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See Statement
one grant, 2018 · $50M
MULTIPLIERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +264%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
one grant, 2019 · $2.6M · revenue +6%

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.

CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment

The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment

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

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Educate policymakers about equitable science-based solutions for climate, energy, & the environment

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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

Clean Energy Group Inc

Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

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

Circum-Pacific Council for Energy

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Clean Energy Transition Institute

To accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest by producing unbiased research and analysis framing economic decarbonization strategies and convening stakeholders to debate the tradeoffs in building the clean energy…

Education

Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Council for an Energy-Efficient and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,950

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.

04the grantee network

28 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

25/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$142,393,846Environment$85,627,500Other$69,596,633Crime & Legal$1,550,000Civil Rights$1,500,000Education$650,000Science & Tech$650,000Social Science$50,000

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 FoundationCA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Jpb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sequoia Climate 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 Sea Change Foundation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: GRIDLAB INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 14.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824198360 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 GRIDLAB INC, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% 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 Sea Change Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sea Change Foundation 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.

Sea Change Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?