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Solutions Project Inc

The Solutions Project funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by frontline community organizations.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
146
Grants FY2024
216
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 216
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
29
Total assets, FY2024
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Solutions Project Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving100$4.9M0%
FY2023216$16M44%
FY2022181$13M48%
FY2021124$8.9M69%
FY202038$1.9M32%
FY201937$641k54%
FY201839$1.2Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$17MCommunity Improvement$7.2MCivil Rights$5.1MPublic Benefit$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHuman Services$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Solutions Project Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partnership for Southern Equity$982,00074%
Uprose Inc$961,000811%
New Alpha Community Development Corporation$939,500841%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$884,50064%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$867,00077%
Catalyst Miami Inc$839,50058%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$827,50060%
Florida Rising Together Inc$820,00072%
Native Renewables Inc$795,000522%
Kentucky Coalition Inc$780,000412%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$762,00053%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education$666,667514%
Project South Inc$658,50063%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$607,500510%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$447,50061%
Ufw Foundation$447,00081%
La Marana Corp$440,000725%
Taproot Earth$420,00033%
Southeast Climate & Energy Network$385,000443%
Urban Tilth$375,00043%
West Street Recovery$370,500411%
Multiplier$365,00050%
Wecount$360,00049%
The Cleo Institute Inc$354,00088%
Alliance for a Just Society$350,00042%
The Smile Trust Inc$345,0003n/a
Communities for a Better Environment$342,50062%
Utah Dine Bikeyah$330,000516%
Institute for Washingtons Future$320,00047%
Gasp$307,50059%
Winneshiek Energy District$302,000731%
One Voice$300,00034%
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc$290,00084%
Groundswell Inc$285,00072%
Georgia Wand Education Fund$280,000716%
Comite Civico del Valle Inc$277,50042%
The Point Community Development Corporation$275,00073%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$271,00080%
Little Manila Rising$270,00036%
Coalition of Community Organizations$268,000452%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$265,00021%
Opal$250,000435%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org$247,50043%
Education Economics Environmental Climate and Heal$245,000421%
Soulardarity$240,00059%
Indigenous Environmental Network$240,00042%
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice$240,00076%
HASER Inc$235,00044%
The Descendants Project$226,500431%
Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI$220,00047%
Voices for a Sustainable Future$220,00057%
Honor the Earth$220,00041%
Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc$210,00046%
The Smile Trust$210,000215%
Go AustinVamos Austin$210,00035%
Earth Island Institute Inc$210,00031%
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans$210,000415%
West End Revitalization Association$205,000474%
Safe 4 Communities$200,000457%
Unkitawa$200,00042%
Tides Advocacy$200,00060%
Hijra House Association$190,000252%
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network$190,00033%
Ti Ayiti Preparedness & Relief Inst$190,0003n/a
Healthy Gulf$183,00043%
Lead Coalition of Bay County$180,000420%
Philadelphia Community Farm Inc$180,000229%
Inquiring Systems Inc$177,00032%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc$175,00045%
Family Action Network Movement Inc$170,00044%
Fair Future Movement Inc$170,000315%
Green Technical Education and Employment$170,000313%
Environmental Health Coalition$170,00042%
Greening Youth Foundation Inc$170,00051%
The Fields Retreat and Learning Center$166,000421%
Eastern Woodland Lacross$165,00029%
Faith Coalition for the Common Good Inc$165,000233%
Southern Echo Inc$160,00042%
Institute for Climate and Peace$160,000425%
Institute for Enhanced Equity$159,000321%
Appalachian Voices$157,50041%
Casa Familiar Inc$157,50041%
Black Sustainability Inc$155,00027%
4dasoil$155,00027%
Our Climate Education Fund$152,500216%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$150,00030%
Arizona Center for Empowerment$150,00041%
Save Our Illinois Land$150,000370%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$150,00030%
HBCU Green Fund Inc$150,000411%
Steps Coalition$147,50046%
Harambee House Inc$147,50045%
Faith in the Valley$147,00053%
Sol Nation Inc$145,000415%
BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green$145,00033%
Indigenous Creatives Collective$140,00029%
Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico Inc$140,00027%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo$140,00044%
Higher Purpose Hub$140,00039%
Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council$140,000417%
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition$140,00033%
To Nizhoni Ani$140,00037%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$135,00030%
Right to the City Alliance$135,00035%
The Slap Collective Inc$132,0002n/a
Resilience Force$130,00041%
Good Old Lower East Side Inc$130,00025%
Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communitie$130,000322%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy$128,00038%
Opencollective Foundation$127,50010%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute$126,00041%
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc$125,000118%
Nopi Inc$125,00018%
MN Renewable Now$125,0001n/a
Alaska Community Action on Toxics$125,00017%
Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation$125,000155%
Center Pole$125,00018%
Just Transition Alliance$125,000123%
Good Work Institute Inc$125,00015%
Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy$125,00014%
Cultivate Collective Inc$125,0001n/a
The Ocean Foundation$125,00011%
Coastal Quest$125,00014%
Great Plains Action Society$125,000127%
Keep Growing Detroit$125,00017%
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc$125,000111%
Tallahassee Food Network$125,000129%
Coyotl Macehualli$125,000167%
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation$125,00041%
Rustic Roots Sanctuary Co$125,000117%
Greater Birmingham Ministries$120,00043%
Amigxs del M A R$120,0002n/a
Chainbreaker Collective$120,000122%
Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint$116,0001n/a
Louisiana Environmental Action Network$110,00039%
White Earth Land Recovery Project$110,00033%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG$110,00033%
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Inc$110,00048%
Miami Climate Alliance Inc$110,000218%
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective$107,500210%
Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc$100,00014%
Ironbound Community Corporation$100,00011%
Indigenous Peoples Power Project Inc$100,000121%
Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc$100,000328%
Southwest Organizing Project$100,00015%
Movement for Justice in El Barrio Inc$100,000131%
Wukchumni Tribe$100,00017%
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light$100,000115%
Red Willow Center$100,0001n/a
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$100,00013%
Redeemer Community Partnership$100,000310%
Native Movement$100,00011%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc$100,00014%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$100,00010%
Pure Justice$98,00048%
Girl Plus Environment Corporation$97,500246%
Mutual Aid Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Inc$94,000181%
Holman United Methodist Church$91,6673n/a
Mondo Bizarro Productions$90,000210%
Got Green$90,00033%
Ho'Ahu Energy Cooperative Molokai$90,000320%
Central Florida Jobs With Justice Corp$90,00032%
The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice$90,00032%
Grow Greater Englewood Inc$90,00031%
Youth United for Community Action$90,00035%
Memphis Community Against Pollution Inc$90,0003n/a
Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated$90,000112%
Community Initiatives$77,50020%
Alianza Coachella Valley$77,50022%
The Water Genome$75,000110%
Sustainable Water Energy and Economic Transition in Alabama$75,00019%
Movement Alliance Project$75,00021%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action$70,000316%
Southeast Center for Cooperative Development$70,000114%
La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture$67,500210%
Amistades Inc$67,50021%
Texas Small Farmers & Ranchers-Cbo$67,50025%
Open Buffalo Inc$67,50033%
Na Kama Kai$67,50024%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$66,66721%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement$65,00025%
Nc Warn Inc$62,50031%
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc$62,50036%
North Carolina Assoc of Black Lawyers LLP$60,0002n/a
Florida Clinicians for Climate Action$60,0002n/a
Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation$60,000121%
St Andrew Presbyterian Church$60,0001n/a
Parceleras Afrocaribenas Por la Transform Barrial$60,000210%
Movement Strategy Center$52,50030%
Cooperation Cannon River$50,000129%
Grassroots Collaborative$50,00013%
Citizen Action of Wisconsin Inc$50,00013%
Climb Community Development Corporation$50,00014%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice$50,00012%
Community Labor United Inc$50,0001n/a
Solidarity Stl Inc$50,000120%
La Semilla Food Center$50,00011%
Puget Sound Sage$50,00012%
North Bay Jobs With Justice$50,00014%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$50,00021%
Complexion Community Development Corporation$50,0001n/a
Pittsburgh United$50,00012%
United for Respect Education Fund$50,00011%
Brooklyn Queens Land Trust$50,000132%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$50,00011%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center$50,00011%
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc$45,00021%
Clinton Hill Community Action Inc$42,50021%
Movement Generation$40,00011%
Sustainable Molokai$30,00012%
Protect Our Aquifer$30,00014%
Texas Impact Education Fund$30,000111%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec$30,00012%
Allied Media Projects Inc$30,00010%
W Montague Cobb Nma Health Institute$30,00014%
Mn350$30,00011%
Jesus House New Orleans$30,0001n/a
Regeneration International$27,500111%
Makoce Agriculture Development$27,50012%
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project$27,50011%
Frontline Catalysts$27,50017%
Charitable Ventures of Orange County$27,50010%
Greensky Hill Methodist Church$27,5001n/a
Warrenconner Development Coalition$27,50011%
Greater Bridgeport Community Enter$27,50012%
The Center for Energy Education Fka Solar Center for Excellence$27,50012%
Flanner House of Indianapolis$27,50010%
United Way of Coastal Fairfield County Inc$27,50011%
Bridging the Gap Inc$27,50011%
Groundwork Ohio River Valley Inc$27,50013%
Renew New England Alliance$27,50012%
Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program$27,50012%
Sisters United Enterprise$27,5001n/a
Bridging The Gap In Virginia$27,5001n/a
New Urban Arts$27,50012%
Project New Village$27,50012%
The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Inc$27,50010%
Northend Christian Community Development Corporation$27,50012%
Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp$27,5001n/a
Ourspace World Inc$27,50012%
Eastie Farm Inc$27,50011%
Neighborhood Land Power Project$27,50013%
The Latino Equity Advocacy and Policy Institute$27,50012%
Georgia Strategic Alliance for New$27,50012%
EcoWorks$27,50011%
Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans$27,50012%
Partnership for Community Action$27,50012%
Native Conservancy$27,50011%
Protect & Preserve Hawaii Inc$27,50016%
General Baker Institute$27,500113%
Placemaking Fund$27,50015%
Verde Inc$27,50011%
Garfield Park Community Council$27,50013%
Ri Women in the Trades$27,500119%
Arizona Sustainability Alliance$27,50013%
Urban Homesteading Assistance (U-Hab) Inc$27,50011%
Aina Momona$27,50010%
Ecolatinos Inc$27,500111%
Minneapolis Climate Action$27,500130%
The Utility Reform Network$27,50010%
Spirit of the Sun Inc$27,50015%
State Democracy Project$27,50010%
Waub Ajijaak Press & Foundation$27,50015%
Concerned Citizens of Charles City County$27,500123%
Munsterpreneur Initiative$27,5001n/a
Equiticity$27,50011%
Carroll Ministries International$27,5001n/a
Institute for Local Innovations Inc$27,50014%
Latino Academy of Workforce Development Inc$27,50012%
Virginia Organizing Inc$27,50010%
St Suzanne Code Rouge Community Resource Center$27,50016%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$27,50010%
We Stay-Nos Quedamos Inc$27,50012%
KOPC Workforce Development$27,500119%
San Diego Urban Sustainability Coalition$27,500114%
Health People Inc$27,50011%
Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation$27,50012%
4MyCity Inc$27,50010%
Outdoor Promise Inc$27,5001n/a
Lucky Shoals Community Association Inc$25,000137%
Seabrook Village Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
US Climate Action Network$25,00021%
HousingNOLA$25,00012%
Solar United Neighbors Inc$20,00020%
Mutual Aid Twin Cities Housing Cooperative$20,0001n/a
Jobs with Justice Education Fund$20,00010%
Good Life Garden$20,0001n/a
Renew Missouri Advocates$20,00014%
Florida Institute for Reform and Em Dba Organize Florida Education Fund$15,00010%
Iowa Environmental Council$10,00021%
West Georgia Star Inc$10,0001n/a
Southern Education Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc$10,00015%
Kcf Kentucky Conservation Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Climate Justice Alliance$10,00010%
Coal River Mountain Watch Inc$10,00027%
Story & Reach Communications$10,0001n/a
Energy Allies A NJ Nonprofit Corporation$10,00012%
Action St Louis$10,0001n/a
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc$8,00020%
Foundation for the Mid South Inc$5,00011%
New Energy Economy Inc$5,0002n/a
Power Shift Network$5,00011%
Welfen$5,0001n/a
Neighborhood Funders Group$5,00020%
We Own It Inc$4,00011%
Federation of Southern Cooperatives$3,00010%
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy$2,00010%

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Solutions Project Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 25 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartnership for Southern Equity: $982,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUprose Inc: $961,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetNew Alpha Community Development Corporation: $939,500 over 8y, 41% of budgetThunder Valley Community Development Cor: $884,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetPeople United for Sustainable Housing Inc: $867,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetCatalyst Miami Inc: $839,500 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $827,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Rising Together Inc: $820,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNative Renewables Inc: $795,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetKentucky Coalition Inc: $780,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $762,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $666,667 over 5y, 14% of budgetProject South Inc: $658,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetLouisiana Bucket Brigade: $607,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $447,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUfw Foundation: $447,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLa Marana Corp: $440,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetTaproot Earth: $420,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSoutheast Climate & Energy Network: $385,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetUrban Tilth: $375,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetWest Street Recovery: $370,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetMultiplier: $365,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWecount: $360,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetThe Cleo Institute Inc: $354,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetAlliance for a Just Society: $350,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCommunities for a Better Environment: $342,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $330,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetInstitute for Washingtons Future: $320,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetGasp: $307,500 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetWinneshiek Energy District: $302,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetOne Voice: $300,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNew York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc: $290,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetGroundswell Inc: $285,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGeorgia Wand Education Fund: $280,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetComite Civico del Valle Inc: $277,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation: $275,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $271,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Manila Rising: $270,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCoalition of Community Organizations: $268,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc: $265,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOpal: $250,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $247,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEducation Economics Environmental Climate and Heal: $245,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetSoulardarity: $240,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $240,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Community Action and Environmental Justice: $240,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetHASER Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetThe Descendants Project: $226,500 over 4y, 31% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Windward FundDC145.3× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Solutions Project Inc

How much does Solutions Project Inc give?
Solutions Project Inc reported 146 grants totaling $5,018,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 216 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Solutions Project Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are Solutions Project Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Partnership for Southern Equity ($982k), Uprose Inc ($961k), New Alpha Community Development Corporation ($940k).
Does Solutions Project Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Solutions Project Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windward Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, United States Energy Foundation.
Where is Solutions Project Inc based?
Solutions Project Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 345 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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