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The Sunrise Project Inc

Driven by the imperative of climate justice, the sunrise project's mission is to scale social movements to drive the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy as fast as possible.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$19MPublic Benefit$6.4MPhilanthropy$2.7MEducation$2.5MCivil Rights$2.3MCommunity Improvement$610kInternational$386kHuman Services$330kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 75 grants below total $17,338,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,450,836 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,112,336 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $5.4M
  • $250k+24 grants · $12M
$150,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION INC$2,500,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$1,070,000
CERES INC$800,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$640,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC$580,000
AMERICANS FOR FINANCIAL REFORM EDUCATION FUND$500,000
INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC$400,000
ACCE INSTITUTE$380,000
INTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY$375,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$375,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC$360,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$350,000
GLOBAL 2050 INC$320,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$315,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$305,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $290k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $12M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$7.7M · 63% · 59 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

East Asia and the Pacific$2.9M · 24% · 19 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$570k · 5% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

South America$461k · 4% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$336k · 3% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

South Asia$100k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

Middle East and North Africa$50k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 33 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

$22M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+5%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Potential Energy Coalition Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +38%
  • DF
    DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +432%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • M
    MAJORITYACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -59% · 27% of their budget
  • F
    FFWD
    one grant, 2023 · $825k · revenue +1%
  • TE
    THE EDEN PROJECT USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $650k · revenue -46% · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
3
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
4
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

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…

Environment
5
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
12
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 93 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
46/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINDWARD FUND: $1,500,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,480,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $1,270,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONCERES INC: $1,250,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCMAJORITYACTION: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentMAJORITYACTIONINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $800,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINA…STAND: $760,000 · EnvironmentSTANDTHE EDEN PROJECT USA INC: $650,000 · EnvironmentTHE EDEN PROJECT USA INC+21 more: $3,300,000 · Environment+21 morePotential Energy Coalition Inc: $2,750,000 · OtherPotential Energy Coalition IncINTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: $760,000 · OtherINTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE…AS YOU SOW: $700,000 · OtherAS YOU SOWCLIMATE CABINET ACTION: $500,000 · OtherCLIMATE CABINET ACTIONUS SIF FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherTHIRD ACT INITIATIVE INC: $330,000 · OtherGLOBAL 2050 INC: $320,000 · OtherNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $360,000 · Other+26 more: $3,191,000 · Other+26 morePUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,160,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZ…Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $1,100,000 · Public BenefitAmericans fo…Oil Change International Inc: $386,500 · Public BenefitOil Change I…Earthworks: $300,000 · Public BenefitEarthworksFAIR SHOT TEXAS: $300,000 · Public BenefitFAIR SHOT TE…FOR THE LONG TERM: $200,000 · Public BenefitFOR THE LONG…Ground Game Fund: $126,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $100,000 · Public BenefitGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $840,000 · EducationGEORGETOW…ACCE Institute: $530,000 · EducationACCE Inst…New York University: $450,000 · EducationNew York …SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $385,000 · EducationSOCIAL GO…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $305,000 · EducationPresident…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationTHE BOARD…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 · EducationVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $125,000 · Education+1 more: $45,000 · EducationDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $2,350,000 · Crime & LegalNew York Communities For Change Inc: $590,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsTRAINING FOR CHANGE: $380,000 · Civil RightsPOWERPAC FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Civil RightsMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsInvest Ahead fka Thirty Percent Coalition: $100,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $80,000 · Civil RightsFFWD: $825,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $715,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc: $305,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$12,010,000Other$9,311,000Public Benefit$3,672,500Education$3,005,000Crime & Legal$2,350,000Civil Rights$2,225,000Philanthropy$1,845,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $2,750,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $2,350,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,480,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $1,270,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCERES INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,160,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetAmericans for Financial Reform Education Fund: $1,100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMAJORITYACTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $840,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFFWD: $825,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $800,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSTAND: $760,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $715,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $700,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetTHE EDEN PROJECT USA INC: $650,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $590,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACCE Institute: $530,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCLIMATE CABINET ACTION: $500,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $450,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNew York University: $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS SIF FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetOil Change International Inc: $386,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $385,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRAINING FOR CHANGE: $380,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $360,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMIGHTY EARTH INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHIRD ACT INITIATIVE INC: $330,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $305,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $305,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCLIMATE FINANCE ACTION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetPOWERPAC FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetEarthworks: $300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFAIR SHOT TEXAS: $300,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK: $295,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $290,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $280,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION: $250,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $220,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOR THE LONG TERM: $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCALSTART INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH QUAKER ACTION TEAM: $200,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…United States Energy …Sustainable Markets F…Wallace Global Fund IIThe Schmidt Family Fo…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationRockefeller Brothers …New Venture FundPark Foundation IncRockefeller Philanthr…Impactassetsinc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC45.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Park Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sunrise Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sunrise Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sunrise Project Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sunrise Project Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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