· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREEAGE | $240,541 |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC | $40,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN ECONOMY | $30,000 |
| NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| MULTIPLIER | $10,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of your 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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 FY2025, 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
- TITREEAGE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $313k · revenue +40% · 67% of their budget
- AFAlliance for a Green Economy Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +94%
- NYNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -4%
- WAWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -48%
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.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Promotion of environmental protection
Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
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…
To reclaim new york city from cars, transforming our streets into safe, sustainable, and equitable places to walk, bike, take transit, gather, and thrive.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…
The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Advocates Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for a Green Economy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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
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 TREEAGE INC ↗
- Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for a Green Economy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
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: 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
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 Spring Street Climate Fund 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.
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.
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