How much did THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC grant in FY2024?

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC reported 14 grants totaling $683,444 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC based?

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC is based in MA.

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC

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· Public charity

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.

$683k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$368k

Largest

01What you fund

0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Environment$4.2MHuman Services$225kArts & Culture$162kEducation$86kCommunity Improvement$71kPublic Benefit$50kCivil Rights$25kYouth Development$21kOther$153k

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $37k
$10k–50k7 grants · $133k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $368k

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$71M

Total assets

Largest grants

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$367,500
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$100,000
GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS$25,000
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$25,000
GREENLATINOS$20,000
GREEN 20$20,000
MEMPHIS COMMUNITY AGAINST POLLUTION$18,000
CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD OF OHIO$15,000
HEALTHY CLIMATE WISCONSIN INC$10,000
GREENROOTS INC$8,100
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC$7,500
EVNOIRE$7,500
INTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 14 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+144%

+173%

Still filing today

86%

96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

SA
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +490%
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $360k · revenue +25%
AF
ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY
2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +478%

Funded once

SP
SOLUTIONS PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $850k · revenue +273%
DS
DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +993%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $127k · revenue +393%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment

Northeast Clean Energy Council Inc

NECEC leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement

Clean Energy Group Inc

Clean Energy Group promotes effective clean energy policies, develops low carbon technology innovation strategies and promotes new financial tools to strengthen the economy and stabilize climate change.

Environment

Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.

Environment

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

Nw Energy Coalition

NWEC leads a broad alliance advancing affordable, equitable clean energy. We envision a carbon-free system providing reliable energy, restoring natural resources, protecting salmon, supporting communities, and prioritizing decarbonization,…

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Environmental Law Institute

To advance effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information, publications, training courses, seminars, research and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and…

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Environment Now

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Texas Campaign for the Environment

Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.

Environment

Center for Energy and Environment

The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is a clean energy nonprofit with decades of special expertise in energy efficiency. Working in homes, buildings, and communities, CEE discovers and deploys the most effective energy solutions to…

Environment

Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/46

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,932

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

36/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$4,195,300Human Services$225,000Arts & Culture$162,350Other$198,900Education$86,208Community Improvement$70,750Public Benefit$50,000

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.

United States Energy FoundationCA43.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Partnership Project Inc · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs · Solutions Project Inc · Tides Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · The Kresge Foundation · Sierra Club

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 organisation THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~39 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463811348 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 39 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc?

More from the funding graph