California · Public charity
The Climate Center
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Climate Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $58k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Cycle Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 5% |
| TOLA Organizing Academy | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| California Environmental Voters Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Civicwell | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voices for a Sustainable Future | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Estuary Institute | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Climate Center
- How much does The Climate Center give?
- The Climate Center reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Climate Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The Climate Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Carbon Cycle Institute ($150k), TOLA Organizing Academy ($25k), California Environmental Voters Education Fund ($10k).
- Does The Climate Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Climate Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Climate Center based?
- The Climate Center is based in CA.
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