New York · Private foundation
The Climate Cousins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Climate Cousins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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 | 2 | $165k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $2.3M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.9M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Currents | $905,346 | 2 | 3% |
| Natures Garden for Victory and Peace Inc | $629,565 | 3 | 41% |
| HASER Inc | $529,565 | 2 | 31% |
| Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network | $300,781 | 2 | 5% |
| Center for Carbon Removal | $282,031 | 2 | 8% |
| Multiplier | $275,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc | $261,740 | 2 | 74% |
| Mondo Bizarro Productions | $240,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $187,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Farmworker Association of Florida Inc | $175,781 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Currents | $905,346 | 2 | 3% |
| Natures Garden for Victory and Peace Inc | $629,565 | 3 | 41% |
| HASER Inc | $529,565 | 2 | 31% |
| Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network | $300,781 | 2 | 5% |
| Center for Carbon Removal | $282,031 | 2 | 8% |
| Multiplier | $275,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc | $261,740 | 2 | 74% |
| Mondo Bizarro Productions | $240,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $187,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Farmworker Association of Florida Inc | $175,781 | 1 | 8% |
| Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism | $175,781 | 1 | 1% |
| Climateworks Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| CarbonPlan | $140,625 | 1 | 6% |
| Taproot Earth | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Project South Inc | $115,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Refed Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rural Investment to Protect Our Environment | $90,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Spark Climate Solutions | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cambiar Education | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Floodlight Inc | $11,720 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Climate Cousins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Climate Cousins Foundation
- How much does The Climate Cousins Foundation give?
- The Climate Cousins Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Climate Cousins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), International (18%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Climate Cousins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Thousand Currents ($905k), Natures Garden for Victory and Peace Inc ($630k), HASER Inc ($530k).
- Does The Climate Cousins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Climate Cousins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Climate Cousins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Windward Fund, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Climate Cousins Foundation based?
- The Climate Cousins Foundation is based in NY.
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