How much did THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE grant in FY2024?

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE reported 25 grants totaling $1,058,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE based?

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE is based in CA.

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE

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· Public charity

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE

We envision a future where communities of color can build wealth, (continued on schedule o) live in healthy places, filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$256k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Environment$1.3MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEducation$830kArts & Culture$540kYouth Development$505kHuman Services$490kFood & Nutrition$353kHousing & Shelter$326kOther$1.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

community-led action

2022

community-led action

2023

developgreenresilientdigital accessaccess townlinktransformacre

2024

gtb awardpassthrough transformative

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k20 grants · $600k
$50k–250k4 grants · $203k
$250k+1 grant · $256k

$37,500

Median grant

States reached

$44M

Total assets

Largest grants

FORTH$256,000
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC$52,500
COASTAL QUEST$50,000
BLACK URBAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION$50,000
GES COALITION INC$50,000
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$47,500
CITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$45,000
RESTORE THE DELTA$45,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS 4 INNOVATION$45,000
MID CITY COMMUNITY ADVOCACY NETWORK$45,000
LABOR'S TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$45,000
SOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION$42,500
EQUITICITY$37,500
LITTLE MANILA FOUNDATION$35,000
EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE$35,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $455k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 22 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +162% since the first grant, against +108% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+162%

+108%

Still filing today

100%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

LM
Little Manila Rising
3× · 2021–2024 · $330k · revenue +838%
LU
LOPEZ URBAN FARM COMMUNITY PARTNERS 4 INNOVATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $261k · revenue +207%
Social Good Fund Inc
2× · 2022–2023 · $255k · revenue +388%

Funded once

NM
New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation
one grant, 2022 · $994k · 50% of their budget
AS
Active San Gabriel Valley
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -68%
CC
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
one grant, 2023 · $200k · 49% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

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

Central California Environmental

To empower our communities and secure our childrens future by eliminating negative enviromental impacts in low income and communities of color in the Central Valley.

Environment

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit

350 Bay Area

We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Environment

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment

North East Trees Inc

North East Trees (NET) heals decades of environmental injustice and disinvestment through community-based urban forestry, nature-based design-build of parks, community engagement, and youth workforce development. Our projects, which take…

Environment

California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech

Center for Diversity and the Environment

To racially and ethnically diversify the US Environmental Moment by developing leaders, diversifying institutions, and building community.

Environment

Statewide California Coalition

The New California Coalition (NCC) is a forward-thinking organization with a bold mission: to identify and implement solutions that will pave the way for enduring, generational change in Sacramento and across the entire state of California.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/56

the rest of the field

13%

10,573/82,938

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

39/52

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,505,693Environment$1,252,500Civil Rights$1,090,421Community Improvement$1,018,400Education$829,994Arts & Culture$540,000Youth Development$505,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The California Wellness FoundationCA29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Solutions Project Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 880717262 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Greenlining Institute?

Find your warmest path to The Greenlining Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Greenlining Institute?

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THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

52 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Greenlining Institute?

More from the funding graph