· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $7,281,984 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,482,370 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,200,386 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $729k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Earth Energy and Democracy | $900,000 |
| Earthworks | $419,000 |
| Electric Vehicles Association | $378,026 |
| Tides Foundation | $290,000 |
| Interfaith Power & Light | $265,464 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $223,000 |
| The Hack Foundation | $221,865 |
| GreenLatinos | $212,000 |
| Western Leaders Network | $200,000 |
| The YEARS Project | $200,000 |
| Black Progressive Action Coalition Education Fund | $200,000 |
| Voto Latino Foundation | $200,000 |
| The Next 100 Syndicate | $192,657 |
| Coming Clean Inc | $184,000 |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $170,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION7× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +72%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +202%- EAENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +186% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- RIRGISC INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $501k · revenue +50% · 50% of their budget
- PIPLUG IN AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $359k · revenue +21%
- JJUSTFUNDUSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Driving american jobs and competitiveness by leveraging our cleaner economy and enabling u.s. manufacturers to lead in advanced energy technologies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
227 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 227 of the 250 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds GreenLatinos ↗
- Who funds Earthworks ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE REGENERATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EARTH ENERGY AND DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds The Green Door Initiative ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds triplecheck ↗
- Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Environmental Health Network ↗
- Who funds The Partnership Project Action Fund ↗
- Who funds Clean Air Council ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds COMING CLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMORG ↗
- Who funds Catholic Climate Covenant ↗
- Who funds Harambee House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YEARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIFICATION COALITION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG GIFTED & GREEN ↗
- Who funds RGISC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BlueGreen Alliance Foundation ↗
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.
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
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 organization The Partnership Project Inc 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% of income from government
- Alianza Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.