Maryland · Private foundation
The Shared Earth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $737k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Shared Earth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $3.8M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $3.3M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $2.9M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $2.9M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $4.2M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $4.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $3.5M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $1.1M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defenders of Wildlife | $2,370,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Leap Inc | $1,619,500 | 9 | 75% |
| Upstream Alliance Inc | $1,315,000 | 9 | 44% |
| Game Changers Foundation Inc | $1,187,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Snow Leopard Conservancy | $1,035,000 | 8 | 39% |
| National Geographic Society | $850,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bay Journal Media Inc | $782,500 | 9 | 18% |
| The Bhutan Foundation | $750,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $725,025 | 3 | 5% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $570,000 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shared Earth Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Henry Sears Foundation Inc · Farvue Foundation Inc · Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · Seadream Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Shared Earth Foundation
- How much does The Shared Earth Foundation give?
- The Shared Earth Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,797,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shared Earth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Animals (31%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are The Shared Earth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Defenders of Wildlife ($2.4M), Leap Inc ($1.6M), Upstream Alliance Inc ($1.3M).
- Does The Shared Earth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shared Earth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shared Earth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc, Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Shared Earth Foundation based?
- The Shared Earth Foundation is based in MD.
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