· Private foundation
The Shifting Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $483k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund | $65,000 |
| Earthjustice | $65,000 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) | $65,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Vimalakirti LLC (Ganavya Doraiswamy) | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Dead Letter Office (Frank Heath) | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 37% of The Shifting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EARTHJUSTICE4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +49%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +21%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $863k
- AAECTone grant, 2023 · $82k
- ATAmboseli Trust for Elephantsone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 98 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
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.
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PYROCLASTIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shifting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shifting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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