· Public charity
The Recycling Partnership Inc
Our mission is to build a better recycling system, one that delivers the economic and environmental benefits our communities and the hundreds of thousands of people who work throughout the recycling industry deserve.
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 113 grants below total $14,897,457 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,574,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $677,079 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 $10k17 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $812k
- $50k–250k48 grants · $5.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FLINT | $1,625,903 |
| CITY OF MCKINNEY | $813,116 |
| BALCONES RECYCLING INC | $652,775 |
| VALEMI INC | $646,494 |
| CITY OF SYRACUSE | $632,507 |
| CITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS | $603,339 |
| SOLID WASTE SERVICES INC DBA JP MASCARO & SONS | $542,939 |
| CITY OF FORT COLLINS | $516,309 |
| CITY OF FORT WORTH | $481,568 |
| POLYSTAMP LLC | $448,000 |
| POPE DOUGLAS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT | $352,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY GOVERNMENT DBA CHESTER COUNTY SOLID WASTE & WEST TN RECYCLIN | $316,800 |
| SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY OF BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA INC DBA BALDWIN | $297,600 |
| MECKLENBURG COUNTY | $280,000 |
| SOUTH TAHOE REFUSE CO INC | $231,725 |
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 (FY24–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +38% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 52 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $549k · revenue +49%
- RARECYCLE ANN ARBOR3× · 2022–2024 · $186k · revenue +0%
- KAKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL2× · 2019–2021 · $115k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BCBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -5%
- COCITY OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M
- UPUS PLASTICS PACT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue +31% · 100% of their budget
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.
Eco-cycle's mission is to innovate, implement, and advocate for local and global zero waste solutions to foster a more sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient future.
See schedule osee narrative to form 990, part i, line 1, description of organization mission (per may 2024 bylaws).
Nerc's mission is to minimize waste, conserve natural resources, and advance a sustainable economy through facilitated collaboration and action.
GAIAs mission is to strengthen grassroots social movements that advance solutions to waste and pollution, working towards a just, zero waste world where people are free from toxic pollution.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The mission of the rockbridge area conservation council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.
The Product Stewardship Institute is a policy expert and consulting nonprofit that powers the emerging circular economy to ensure products are responsibly managed from design to end of life. In 2000, PSI pioneered extended producer…
Zero Waste Detroit (ZWD) is a coalition of over 20 community, environmental, and environmental justice organizations. Our goal is to move the City of Detroit to a solid waste management system that prioritizes recycling and materials…
Zero Waste Washington drives policy change for a healthy and waste free world. We envision a just, equitable, and sustainable future where we all produce, consume, and reuse responsibly. We are the publics voice for zero waste. We educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cglr Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Plastic Beach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 257 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.
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: Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Center for Technology and Civic Life · National League of Cities Institute Inc · FitLot · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · AARP · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · US Green Building Council Inc · Institute for Responsive Government Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Our Rescue
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 Recycling Partnership 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.
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.