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The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust

Provides grants to and makes program-related investments for the benefit of its supported organizations

$35M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,782,370
Organizations funded a year
3 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$468M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentScience & TechInternationalHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$28M32%
FY202320$59M75%
FY20229$23M44%
FY202118$21M56%
FY202010$5.8M50%
FY20197$6.8M43%
FY20184$1.8M25%
FY20173$9.0Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$175M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DE
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rare$22,631,629731%
Savanna Institute$12,000,000163%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$10,061,14071%
Rocky Mountain Institute$9,842,72843%
Clientearth USA Inc$9,000,000359%
Carbon Mapper Inc$8,000,000135%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$8,000,000310%
Spark Climate Solutions$7,000,000294%
Global Witness$6,850,000150%
Ctrees$6,000,000296%
Show all 48 grantees
All grantees of The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rare$22,631,629731%
Savanna Institute$12,000,000163%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$10,061,14071%
Rocky Mountain Institute$9,842,72843%
Clientearth USA Inc$9,000,000359%
Carbon Mapper Inc$8,000,000135%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$8,000,000310%
Spark Climate Solutions$7,000,000294%
Global Witness$6,850,000150%
Ctrees$6,000,000296%
Health in Harmony$5,176,945239%
Center for Carbon Removal$4,475,845325%
Ocean Visions Inc$4,000,000324%
Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development$3,782,370131%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$3,600,000221%
Activate Global Inc$3,400,000126%
Hourglass Climate Inc$3,100,000141%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$2,900,00034%
Earthjustice$2,500,00021%
Climate Foundation$2,482,898240%
The Henry M Paulson Jr Institute$1,700,000415%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,600,00011%
Population Media Center Inc$1,584,75439%
Rainforest Action Network$1,200,00029%
Buckminster Fuller Institute$1,000,0001n/a
Environmental Health Sciences$1,000,000228%
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks$1,000,000111%
Zero Foodprint$888,917317%
Bionutrient Food Association Inc$850,000326%
One Acre Fund$800,00020%
Center for Environmental Health$800,000121%
Defend Our Health$800,000154%
D&R Greenway Land Trust Inc$700,00015%
Third Act Education Fund Inc$600,000125%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics$600,000216%
CalCef Innovations$600,00017%
Altaseads Conservancy Dba Kelp Ark - the Global Macroalgae Seed$600,000142%
1st Street Foundation Inc$500,00016%
Inside Climate News Inc$500,00018%
Wildaid Inc$500,00015%
Environmental Working Group$400,00022%
Earth Innovation Institute$300,000114%
Ecdysis Foundation$250,00015%
Center for International Environmental Law Inc$250,00014%
Global Water Challenge$165,780117%
Environmental Law Institute$120,00012%
Climateworks Foundation$62,50010%
Verra$17,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRare: $22,631,629 over 7y, 31% of budgetSavanna Institute: $12,000,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $10,061,140 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $9,842,728 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetClientearth USA Inc: $9,000,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetCarbon Mapper Inc: $8,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $8,000,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetSpark Climate Solutions: $7,000,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetGlobal Witness: $6,850,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCtrees: $6,000,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $5,176,945 over 2y, 39% of budgetCenter for Carbon Removal: $4,475,845 over 3y, 25% of budgetOcean Visions Inc: $4,000,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetInstitute for Governance and Sustainable Development: $3,782,370 over 1y, 31% of budgetConservation Law Foundation Inc: $3,600,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetActivate Global Inc: $3,400,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHourglass Climate Inc: $3,100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $2,900,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetEarthjustice: $2,500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetClimate Foundation: $2,482,898 over 2y, 40% of budgetThe Henry M Paulson Jr Institute: $1,700,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,600,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPopulation Media Center Inc: $1,584,754 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $1,200,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetEnvironmental Health Sciences: $1,000,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetSociety for the Protection of Underground Networks: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetZero Foodprint: $888,917 over 3y, 17% of budgetBionutrient Food Association Inc: $850,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $800,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $800,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDefend Our Health: $800,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetD&R Greenway Land Trust Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThird Act Education Fund Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAlaska Community Action on Toxics: $600,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCalCef Innovations: $600,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAltaseads Conservancy Dba Kelp Ark - the Global Macroalgae Seed: $600,000 over 1y, 42% of budget1st Street Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetInside Climate News Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWildaid Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEnvironmental Working Group: $400,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEarth Innovation Institute: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEcdysis Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCenter for International Environmental Law Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGlobal Water Challenge: $165,780 over 1y, 17% of budgetEnvironmental Law Institute: $120,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetClimateworks Foundation: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVerra: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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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.

Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the EnvironmentMA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment · Impactassetsinc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Windward Fund · Patagoniaorg · The San Francisco Foundation · Forsythia Foundation Inc · High Tide 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust 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.

About The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust

How much does The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust give?
The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust reported 24 grants totaling $34,863,625 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rare ($23M), Savanna Institute ($12M), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($10M).
Does The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Impactassetsinc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust based?
The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust is based in MA.

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 51 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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