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The Partnership Project Inc

The Partnership Project is organized and operated exclusively to enhance protection of the natural environment by improving the effectiveness of environmental organizations. It currently has 17 groups participating, including the largest environmental advocacy groups in the country. By uniting their members and contributors on…

$11M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
67
Itemized grants FY2024
74
Organizations funded FY2023
34%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$7.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$900,000
Organizations funded a year
39 to 89
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
24
Total assets, FY2024
$30M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations The Partnership Project Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther
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 arriving65$7.0M26%
FY202374$11M34%
FY202289$13M42%
FY202180$16M41%
FY202065$7.4M40%
FY201955$6.7M45%
FY201868$8.8M60%
FY201739$7.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$56MPublic Benefit$4.7MAnimals$3.3MHealth$3.0MCivil Rights$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.7MEducation$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

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

Show all 243 grantees
All grantees of The Partnership Project Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Resources Legacy Fund$10,871,50029%
National Wildlife Federation$3,298,73871%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$3,254,69570%
Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc$3,195,746836%
Sierra Club Foundation$3,164,98681%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$3,042,87672%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$2,519,34269%
GreenLatinos$1,911,875845%
Earthworks$1,885,63986%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$1,829,10034%
Earthjustice$1,807,83080%
The Regeneration Project$1,306,324722%
American Lung Association$1,248,51080%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,109,63070%
Center for Earth Energy and Democracy$1,054,219536%
Virginia Organizing Inc$1,048,33583%
The Green Door Initiative$921,500454%
Deep South Center for Environmental$905,00053%
Center for American Progress$877,00032%
triplecheck$870,0002100%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$856,37773%
Children's Environmental Health Network$855,600569%
The Partnership Project Action Fund$810,00037%
Clean Air Council$791,80076%
The New School$783,90050%
Coming Clean Inc$757,00057%
Dreamorg$729,45029%
Catholic Climate Covenant$667,905816%
Harambee House Inc$660,000531%
The Years Project Inc$648,000226%
Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund$628,71857%
Community Networking Resources Inc$625,0005n/a
Electrification Coalition Foundation$622,900214%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$615,81661%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc$516,00032%
Young Gifted & Green$509,123638%
Rgisc Inc$500,500150%
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment Inc$492,400632%
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation$487,74354%
Electric Vehicle Association$473,926377%
Carroll Ministries International$439,6007n/a
Evangelical Environmental Network$432,742611%
Solutions From The Land$415,000626%
Dakota Resource Council$400,900624%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$385,00021%
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$368,45121%
Plug in America$358,647116%
Continental Divide Trail Coalition$324,465215%
American Security Project$307,000810%
United States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Developme$300,965356%
Allied Media Projects Inc$300,00020%
Justfundus$300,00018%
JustFundUS$300,0001n/a
Lulac Institute Inc$283,44525%
National Medical Association$283,00061%
Hispanic Access Foundation$270,00062%
The Next 100 Syndicate$267,657215%
Solon Center For Research And Publishing$262,000511%
Mi Familia Vota$260,825421%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice$260,00034%
Smart Growth America$246,14032%
Power Shift Network$233,965311%
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance$232,50038%
Voto Latino Foundation Inc$215,00023%
Eko and Affiliate$215,00012%
Ground Game Fund$211,96517%
Evergreen Collaborative$211,96512%
Clean Energy For America Education Fund$211,96519%
Ecoflight$211,500122%
Ceres Inc$210,00030%
Aina Momona$205,00013%
Black Progressive Action Coalition Education Fund$200,0001n/a
Western Leaders Network$200,000146%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$200,00011%
Ab Foundation$200,00012%
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition$195,00019%
Kean University$195,0001n/a
National Security Action$179,75033%
Memphis Community Against Pollution Inc$170,6501n/a
The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc$170,12510%
West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum$163,000416%
Business Forward Inc$160,000225%
The Cleo Institute Inc$155,91446%
National Hispanic Medical Association$152,00044%
Solutions Project Inc$150,00012%
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$150,000110%
NATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE$142,25031%
People's Justice Council$135,925131%
Auxiliary to the National Medical Association Inc$135,000191%
Clean Water Fund$133,00031%
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy$132,00041%
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah$123,000310%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$121,60552%
ReGenesis Institute$120,0002n/a
Institute for a Progressive Nevada$120,00027%
Iowa Farmers Union$118,900213%
Calstart Inc$115,00020%
BlueGreen Alliance Inc$110,00022%
The Ohio Environmental Council$109,58723%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$107,50010%
Consumer Reports Inc$103,00010%
Greenlight America$102,08713%
Bold Education Fund Inc$100,000118%
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice$100,00012%
Western Conservation Action$100,0001n/a
Kean University Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Resource Media$100,00012%
Student Organizing Inc$95,000313%
State Innovation Exchange$94,00012%
Pennenvironment Research & Policy Center Inc$90,000110%
Worc Realty Corp$90,0002n/a
The Wilderness Society$88,95010%
Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance$87,500398%
Georgia Conservation Voters Ed Fund$86,22215%
Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action$86,000268%
Together Tennesse$76,5001n/a
Vet Voice Foundation Inc$75,00014%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$75,00030%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$72,50022%
Virginia Conservation Network$72,000110%
The Yes Lab Inc$70,000125%
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc$70,00023%
American Sustainable Business Institute Inc$70,00021%
Montana Trout Unlimited$65,46719%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$65,00011%
Friends of the Earth$63,90021%
North Carolina Council of Churches$63,5001n/a
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc$60,00011%
Taxpayers for Common Sense$57,50014%
Clean Wisconsin Inc$55,00021%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp$50,00012%
Evergreen Community Developement In$50,00023%
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc$50,00014%
Thomas Edison State University$50,0001n/a
North Dakota Native Vote$50,000188%
We the People of Detroit$50,000210%
Conservation Voters of Sc$46,66714%
Greenfaith Inc$45,00021%
Groundwork Ohio River Valley Inc$43,87513%
The Surfrider Foundation$42,35010%
Resources Legacy Fund Foundation$40,0001n/a
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators$37,22023%
Conservation Colorado Education Fund$37,16712%
Honor the Earth$36,20021%
Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center Inc$35,00017%
Conveners-Org$35,0001n/a
Oceana Inc$35,00010%
Healthy Climate Wisconsin Inc$35,000112%
Nextgen Climate America Inc$35,00011%
West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc$35,00013%
Mansueto Ventures - Fast Company$35,0001n/a
Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania$35,00024%
Arise Adelante$35,0002n/a
Division of Homeland Ministry$35,0002n/a
Mi Familia En Accion$34,80011%
Indiana Wildlife Federation$31,0001n/a
Tides Advocacy$31,00010%
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance$31,00019%
Utah Dine Bikeyah$30,00012%
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project$30,00013%
Elders Action Network Inc$30,00018%
GullahGeechee Legacy LLC$28,6671n/a
Mighty Earth Inc$27,50010%
Alaska Wilderness League Action$25,600130%
Clean Energy Business Network$25,5001n/a
Environmental Advocates Ny Inc$25,00012%
New Mexico Voices for Children$25,00012%
Make The Road States Inc$25,00010%
Hispanic Federation Inc$25,00010%
4th World Foundation$25,0001n/a
Netcentric Campaigns$25,00024%
People for Protecting Peace River Inc$25,0001n/a
To Nizhoni Ani$25,00012%
People for the American Way Foundation$25,00010%
Fair Future Movement Inc$24,75015%
Maine Farmland Trust$24,00010%
Sierra Club$22,15010%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics$21,20021%
Illinois Environmental Council Education$20,00021%
The Climate Group Inc$20,00011%
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network$20,00017%
Rural Coalition$20,00013%
Alianza Center Inc$20,00022%
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy$18,0001n/a
Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy$18,00010%
Unlimited Potential Inc$16,70011%
American Federal Goverment Employees Council 238$16,00019%
Cleveland Owns$15,00016%
US Black Chambers Inc$15,00012%
Kentucky Coalition Inc$15,00010%
Little Village Environmental Justice Org$15,00011%
Partnership for Southern Equity$15,00010%
Environment Florida Research and Policy Center Inc$15,0001n/a
Movement Training Network$15,0001n/a
Native Movement$15,00010%
Green America$15,00010%
Climate and Energy Project Inc$15,00013%
Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc$15,00014%
Southern Vision Alliance$15,00010%
Outside Las Vegas Foundation$15,00011%
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association$15,00010%
Keystone Center$15,00010%
Advanced Energy Institute$15,00010%
Evhybridnoire Inc$15,00011%
Pueblo Organizado En Defensa de la Tierra y Sus Recursos$15,00012%
Justice for Migrant Women$15,00010%
Ironbound Community Corporation$15,00010%
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund$14,00013%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$12,50010%
Micah Challenge$12,0001n/a
US Climate Action Network$12,00010%
Clean Energy For America Inc$10,00011%
League of Oil & Gas Impacted Coloradans$10,0001n/a
Fuerte Arts Movement$10,00011%
Spelman College$10,00010%
Lake Erie Charter Boat Association$10,0001n/a
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$10,00010%
Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund$10,0001n/a
Our Climate Education Fund$10,00011%
Red Rock Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Green 20$10,00011%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$10,0001n/a
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc$10,00011%
Community Climate Collaborative$10,00011%
West Michigan Environmental Action Council Educational Foundation$10,00011%
Data Squad$10,0001n/a
The Americas for the Arts$10,0001n/a
Junction Coalition$10,000113%
Verde Inc$10,00010%
The Archer Group$10,00011%
Maine People's Resource Center$10,00010%
Maine Lakes Society Dba Maine Lakes$10,00017%
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc$10,00010%
Arizona Wildlife Federation$10,00013%
Southwest Organizing Project$10,00011%
Sachamama Inc$9,50017%
Rural & Agriculture Council of America (RACA)$9,000113%
Environment America Inc$8,04310%
Generation180$7,50010%
Friends of the Rappahannock$6,00011%
Lynnhaven River Now$6,00011%
Montana Wildlife Federation$6,00011%
Northern Plains Resource Council$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Partnership Project Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResources Legacy Fund: $10,871,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $3,298,738 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $3,254,695 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEnvironment America Research and Policy Center Inc: $3,195,746 over 8y, 36% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $3,164,986 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $3,042,876 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $2,519,342 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetGreenLatinos: $1,911,875 over 8y, 45% of budgetEarthworks: $1,885,639 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $1,829,100 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEarthjustice: $1,807,830 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Regeneration Project: $1,306,324 over 7y, 22% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $1,248,510 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,109,630 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Earth Energy and Democracy: $1,054,219 over 5y, 36% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $1,048,335 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetThe Green Door Initiative: $921,500 over 4y, 54% of budgetDeep South Center for Environmental: $905,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $877,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgettriplecheck: $870,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $856,377 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetChildren's Environmental Health Network: $855,600 over 5y, 69% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund: $810,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetClean Air Council: $791,800 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetThe New School: $783,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetComing Clean Inc: $757,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetDreamorg: $729,450 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCatholic Climate Covenant: $667,905 over 8y, 16% of budgetHarambee House Inc: $660,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetThe Years Project Inc: $648,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetHip Hop Caucus Education Fund: $628,718 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetElectrification Coalition Foundation: $622,900 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $615,816 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $516,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYoung Gifted & Green: $509,123 over 6y, 38% of budgetRgisc Inc: $500,500 over 1y, 50% of budgetThe National Religious Partnership for the Environment Inc: $492,400 over 6y, 32% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation: $487,743 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetElectric Vehicle Association: $473,926 over 3y, 77% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network: $432,742 over 6y, 11% of budgetSolutions From The Land: $415,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetDakota Resource Council: $400,900 over 6y, 24% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $385,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club: $368,451 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPlug in America: $358,647 over 1y, 16% of budgetContinental Divide Trail Coalition: $324,465 over 2y, 15% of budgetAmerican Security Project: $307,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetUnited States Partnership for Education for Sustainable Developme: $300,965 over 3y, 56% 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 200.

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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.

United States Energy FoundationCA145.1× affinity90 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Resources Legacy Fund · The Energy Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Windward Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Partnership Project Action Fund · Western Conservation Foundation · National Wildlife Federation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc

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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About The Partnership Project Inc

How much does The Partnership Project Inc give?
The Partnership Project Inc reported 67 itemized grants totaling $7,281,984, out of $11,482,370 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Partnership Project Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (71%), Public Benefit (6%), Animals (4%).
Who are The Partnership Project Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Resources Legacy Fund ($11M), National Wildlife Federation ($3.3M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($3.3M).
Does The Partnership Project Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Partnership Project Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United States Energy Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated, Resources Legacy Fund.
Where is The Partnership Project Inc based?
The Partnership Project Inc is based in DC.

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 250 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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