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The Loving Climate Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$25,000
PRINCIPIA CORPORATION$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$5,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$5,000
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC$5,000
LIFEWATER INC$5,000
WILDERNESS SOCIETY$5,000
SOLAR COOKERS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$5,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SOLAR COOKERS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20k → 17%LIFEWATER INC: $5k → 8%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRINCIPIA CORPORATION: $20k → 11%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5k → 12%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SOLAR COOKERS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 12%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20k → 17%WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $5k → 14%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5k → 17%WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $5k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 9 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$170k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+42%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +29%
  • EA
    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Principia Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -37%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +48%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
6
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
10
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
11
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Solar Cookers International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTHSolar Cookers International: $10,000 · EnvironmentSolar Cookers InternationalTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYLIFEWATER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentLIFEWATER INCRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL AND ENER…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIE…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATI…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDE…The Principia Corporation: $20,000 · EducationThe Princip…
Environment$145,000Other$40,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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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.

    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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