· Private foundation
The Ceres Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $543k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sustainable Moloka'i; 1088 | $1,000,000 |
| global greengrants; 1086 | $800,000 |
| Hawai'i Community Foundation; 1095 | $500,001 |
| global greengrants; 1087 | $400,000 |
| Thousand Currents; 1094 | $300,000 |
| Indigenous Seed Keepers Network of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance; 887 | $300,000 |
| Grassroots International; 1095 | $300,000 |
| Science and Environmental Health Network;1067a | $250,000 |
| Center for Food Safety; 1083 | $250,000 |
| Steam Onward Incorporated (Ujamaa Coop); 1085 | $250,000 |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden; 875; 1046 | $225,000 |
| Dogwood Alliance;1080 | $200,000 |
| Hawai'i Investment Ready;1082 | $200,000 |
| Ecology Action; 1089 | $200,000 |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation; 1067b | $200,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.3M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISIndigenous Seed Keepers Network of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance; 8872× · 2023–2024 · $600k
- EAEcology Action; 8522× · 2023–2024 · $270k
- AMAina Momona; 8192× · 2023–2024 · $220k
Funded once
- BPBeyond Pesticides; 1045one grant, 2023 · $700k
- PLPeople's Land Fund; 1033one grant, 2023 · $500k
- RIResist Inc.one grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 281 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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