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Spring Street Climate Fund Inc

Spring street climate fund supports high-impact policy campaigns that can make new york a model state for climate progress. We identify opportunities to win scalable climate solutions and invest in the grassroots climate campaigns that can succeed.

$362k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$240,541
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Spring Street Climate Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$346k0%
FY20249$317k22%
FY202312$335k58%
FY20226$163kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$878kCommunity Improvement$173kPhilanthropy$80kFood & Nutrition$43kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$20kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Spring Street Climate Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Treeage Inc$312,541267%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc$173,14042%
Alliance for a Green Economy Inc$155,00046%
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc$115,00042%
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc$70,00043%
Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc$70,00032%
Multiplier$40,00030%
Environmental Advocates Ny Inc$40,00021%
Waterfront Alliance Inc$30,00011%
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc$30,00011%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$25,00010%
Coney Island Beautification Project Inc$20,0001n/a
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$20,00010%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$10,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Spring Street Climate Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTreeage Inc: $312,541 over 2y, 67% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $173,140 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAlliance for a Green Economy Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNew York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTri-State Transportation Campaign Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCatskill Mountainkeeper Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMultiplier: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Advocates Ny Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWaterfront Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeople United for Sustainable Housing Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 13.

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.

Energy Action FundCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Energy Action Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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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How do I get to Spring Street Climate Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Spring Street Climate Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Spring Street Climate Fund Inc

How much does Spring Street Climate Fund Inc give?
Spring Street Climate Fund Inc reported 7 grants totaling $361,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Spring Street Climate Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Community Improvement (13%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Spring Street Climate Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Treeage Inc ($313k), New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ($173k), Alliance for a Green Economy Inc ($155k).
Does Spring Street Climate Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spring Street Climate Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Energy Action Fund, United States Energy Foundation, Tides Foundation.
Where is Spring Street Climate Fund Inc based?
Spring Street Climate Fund Inc is based in NY.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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