· Private foundation
Towards Sustainability Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cornell University - Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future | $110,000 |
| Cornell University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | $110,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $100,000 |
| Tufts University - Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy | $95,000 |
| Food Project | $30,000 |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative | $30,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society | $25,000 |
| Nature Conservancy - MA Chapter | $25,000 |
| Oxfam-America | $25,000 |
| GreenPeace Fund | $25,000 |
| Rainforest Alliance | $25,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt | $25,000 |
| Green America | $25,000 |
| MADRE | $25,000 |
| Rodale Institute | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $510k · revenue +26%- WMWOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +40%
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SHSelf Help Africaone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SHSELF HELP AFRICA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -36%
- JDJARDIN DE AMORgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
To support the education and training of people residing in or around tropical rainforest areas regarding agroforestry systems and techniques to create sustainable jobs and to conserve the fragile ecosystem of such rainforest areas.
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds Red Tomato Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds VAMOS ADELANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIK ESPERANZA ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds JARDIN DE AMOR ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · 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 Towards Sustainability Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Towards Sustainability Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Farm School Inc: 12% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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