New York · Public charity
Sustainable Markets Foundation
The mission of the organization is to promote environmental protection, energy efficiency, consumer protection, health and safety, and good government.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 51%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $13M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,367,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 51% of the organizations Sustainable Markets Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $13M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $7.1M | 51% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $4.7M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $4.3M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $5.3M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $3.7M | 59% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $3.4M | 51% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $2.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Society for the Protection of Underground Networks | $3,367,500 | 1 | 37% |
| The Years Project Inc | $3,360,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Essential Information Inc | $2,103,300 | 8 | 76% |
| Regenerative Agriculture Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 68% |
| Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance | $1,964,070 | 3 | 26% |
| Consumer Watchdog | $1,785,500 | 6 | 12% |
| New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc | $1,620,530 | 8 | 13% |
| 350 Seattle | $1,549,850 | 5 | 30% |
| The Story of Stuff Project | $1,062,500 | 7 | 18% |
| Third Act Education Fund Inc | $1,050,000 | 1 | 44% |
Show all 231 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sustainable Markets Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 29 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 195 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Patagoniaorg · United States Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · Park Foundation Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · Sierra Club · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Sustainable Markets Foundation
- How much does Sustainable Markets Foundation give?
- Sustainable Markets Foundation reported 53 itemized grants totaling $13,230,207, out of $14,855,055 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sustainable Markets Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (80%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are Sustainable Markets Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Society for the Protection of Underground Networks ($3.4M), The Years Project Inc ($3.4M), Essential Information Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Sustainable Markets Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sustainable Markets Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Schmidt Family Foundation, Rockefeller Family Fund Inc, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Sustainable Markets Foundation based?
- Sustainable Markets Foundation is based in NY.
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