· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The mission is to advance recycling through partnerships, education, and advocacy for the benefit of texas.
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…
Eliminate plastic pollution on the beaches of Tristomo and protect the environment and culture of Karpathos.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 257 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Recycling Partnership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Recycling Partnership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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