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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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$241k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $241k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
MULTIPLIER$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MULTIPLIER: $15k → 10%PUSH BUFFALO: $10k → 13%ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN ECONOMY: $45k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY: $20k → 14%CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER: $25k → 16%WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $30k → 17%CONEY ISLAND BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT INC: $20k → 20%FOOD AND WATER WATCH INC: $23k → 14%TREEAGE: $241k → 8%MULTIPLIER: $15k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN ECONOMY: $40k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY: $20k → 14%CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER: $25k → 16%NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC: $30k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC: $50k → 20%FOOD AND WATER WATCH INC: $20k → 14%TREEAGE: $72k → 8%MULTIPLIER: $10k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN ECONOMY: $40k → 14%CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER: $20k → 16%TRI STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $30k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC: $50k → 20%ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN ECONOMY: $30k → 14%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $20k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC: $40k → 20%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $10k → 17%NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC: $33k → 20%TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN: $10k → 17%NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $40k → 20%WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC: $20k → 17%NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $30k → 20%WIN CLIMATE: $50k → 17%NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $30k → 20%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $25k → 17%NYC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $15k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 8 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$976k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    TREEAGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $313k · revenue +40% · 67% of their budget
  • AF
    Alliance for a Green Economy Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +94%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • WA
    WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -48%
  • NY
    NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Earth Day New York Inc

Promotion of environmental protection

Environment
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
5
Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

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,…

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6
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

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…

Environment
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
8
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
9
New York Restoration Project

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,…

Environment
10
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

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
11
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
12
New York City Bird Alliance Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Advocates Ny Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TREEAGE INC: $312,541 · OtherTREEAGE INCIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GR…CONEY ISLAND BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT INC: $20,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTI…TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN…CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INCMULTIPLIER: $40,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIERENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORP…West Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $173,140 · Community ImprovementNew York Communit…WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT ALLIAN…Alliance for a Green Economy Inc: $155,000 · EducationAlliance for …TIDES FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD & WATER WATCH: $42,500 · Food & NutritionPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$412,541Environment$380,000Community Improvement$203,140Education$155,000Philanthropy$80,000Food & Nutrition$42,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC: $70,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FundUnited States Energy …Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Public Policy and Edu…The Scherman Foundati…Park Foundation IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…Climate Imperative Fo…PatagoniaorgThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spring Street Climate Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spring Street Climate Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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