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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$2.0MInternational$1.3MHuman Services$860kFood & Nutrition$838kPhilanthropy$730kCommunity Improvement$530kArts & Culture$240kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RURAL INVESTMENT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT$90,000
SPARK CLIMATE SOLUTIONS INC$75,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 32%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $250k → 32%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $245k → 32%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $100k → 32%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $35k → 32%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CA
VA
MD
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of The Climate Cousins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 16%.

The Climate Cousins Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 8 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$3.4M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TC
    THOUSAND CURRENTS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $905k · revenue +32%
  • NG
    NATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $630k · revenue +258% · 41% of their budget
  • HI
    HASER Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $530k · revenue +145% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • PE
    POTENTIAL ENERGY
    one grant, 2020 · $281k
  • CJ
    CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $281k
  • MA
    MULTIPLIER - ALL WE CAN SAVE
    one grant, 2021 · $230k
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
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
2
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
3
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
4
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
7
Climate Access Fund Corporation

The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households

Environment
8
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
9
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
10
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
11
Climate Rights International

CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.

Environment
12
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thousand Currents; the most unlike its peers is Mondo Bizarro Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POTENTIAL ENERGY: $281,250 · OtherPOTENTIAL ENERGYCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $281,250 · OtherCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCEMULTIPLIER - ALL WE CAN SAVE: $230,000 · OtherMULTIPLIER - ALL WE CAN SAVETEXAS YOUTH POWER ALLIANCE: $150,000 · OtherTEXAS YOUTH POWER ALLIANCEPROJECT SOUTH INC: $115,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCMondo Bizarro Productions: $240,000 · OtherMondo Bizarro ProductionsCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATIONSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC+7 more: $246,720 · Other+7 moreCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $282,031 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON R…MULTIPLIER: $275,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIERNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $187,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES D…CarbonPlan: $140,625 · EnvironmentCarbonPlanTaproot Earth: $125,000 · EnvironmentTaproot EarthRURAL INVESTMENT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT: $90,000 · EnvironmentRURAL INVESTMENT TO…Spark Climate Solutions: $75,000 · EnvironmentSpark Climate Solut…THOUSAND CURRENTS: $905,346 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTSURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $175,781 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUN…Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network: $300,781 · Food & NutritionDetroit Black…Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc: $261,740 · Food & NutritionFreedmen Heir…Farmworker Association of Florida Inc: $175,781 · Food & NutritionFarmworker As…REFED INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INCROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $629,565 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER P…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $187,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID…NATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $629,565 · Human ServicesNATURES GA…HASER Inc: $529,565 · Community Improvement
Other$1,794,220Environment$1,175,156International$1,081,127Food & Nutrition$838,302Philanthropy$817,065Human Services$629,565Community Improvement$529,565

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 budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $905,346 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNATURES GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $629,565 over 3y, 41% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $629,565 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHASER Inc: $529,565 over 2y, 31% of budgetDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network: $300,781 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $282,031 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $275,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFreedmen Heirs Foundation Inc: $261,740 over 2y, 74% of budgetMondo Bizarro Productions: $240,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $187,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $187,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc: $175,781 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $175,781 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarbonPlan: $140,625 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTaproot Earth: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $115,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREFED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL INVESTMENT TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT: $90,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSpark Climate Solutions: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFloodlight Inc: $11,720 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

ImpactassetsincWindward FundTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundSilicon Valley Commun…Solutions Project IncThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Possibility LabsMovement Strategy Cen…Freedom Together Foun…
ImpactassetsincMD21× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Possibility Labs · Movement Strategy Center · Freedom Together Foundation

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 The Climate Cousins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Climate Cousins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Climate Cousins Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Climate Cousins Foundation 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 32 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-PF 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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