· Public charity
Solutions Project Inc
The Solutions Project funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by frontline community organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k121 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kentucky Coalition | $100,000 |
| People United for Sustainable Housing | $100,000 |
| UPROSE | $100,000 |
| Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN | $100,000 |
| Catalyst Miami | $100,000 |
| 4DaSoil | $100,000 |
| New Alpha Community Development Corp | $100,000 |
| Thunder Valley Community Development Corp | $100,000 |
| Strategic Concepts in Organizing (SCOPE) | $50,000 |
| Tides Foundation | $50,000 |
| The Smile Trust Inc | $50,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | $50,000 |
| Communities For A Better Environment | $50,000 |
| ALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| Alliance for a Just Society | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2024, 52 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
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
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY7× · 2017–2023 · $982k · revenue +312%
- UIUPROSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $961k · revenue +200%
- NANEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $940k · revenue +54% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- FFFund for Frontline Powerone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- SCSoutheast Climate & Energy Network -SCENone grant, 2022 · $320k
- JJustice40one grant, 2021 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
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…
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
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.
Environmental Justice & Equality
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
To connect, support, and uplift the various climate justice efforts, inspiring systems change in a metropolitan area.
Climate Resilient Communities is empowering community voices to implement equitable climate solutions for unity, resilience, and justice.
The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Shoals Community Association 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
312 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 312 of the 345 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY ↗
- Who funds UPROSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE RENEWABLES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA MARANA CORP ↗
- Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
- Who funds Southeast Climate & Energy Network ↗
- Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
- Who funds West Street Recovery ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds WECOUNT ↗
- Who funds THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Gasp ↗
- Who funds WINNESHIEK ENERGY DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA WAND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Point Community Development Corporation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Grassroots International Inc · Patagoniaorg · Sierra Club · The Energy 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 organization Solutions Project Inc 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.