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The Loving Climate Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Environment$165kEducation$20kInternational$10kAnimals$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Loving Climate Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sierra Club Foundation$50,00020%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$40,00020%
Environmental and Energy Study Institute$20,00021%
The Principia Corporation$20,00010%
Friends of the Earth$10,00020%
Solar Cookers International$10,00021%
The Wilderness Society$10,00020%
Lifewater Inc$10,00021%
Rainforest Foundation Inc$10,00020%
National Park Foundation$5,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Loving Climate Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSierra Club Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental and Energy Study Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Principia Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSolar Cookers International: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifewater Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRainforest Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $5,000 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 11.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to The Loving Climate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Loving Climate 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.

About The Loving Climate Foundation

How much does The Loving Climate Foundation give?
The Loving Climate Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Loving Climate Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (80%), Education (10%), International (5%).
Who are The Loving Climate Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Sierra Club Foundation ($50k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($40k), Environmental and Energy Study Institute ($20k).
Does The Loving Climate 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 Loving Climate Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Loving Climate Foundation based?
The Loving Climate Foundation is based in DE.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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