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Urban Sustainability Directors Network
To connect local government leaders in the united states, canada and abroad to accelerate sustainability practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $362,074 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,088,085 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,726,011 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF AMSTERDAM | $100,000 |
| CITY OF BALITMORE | $26,000 |
| COUNTY OF LOUISVILLE | $20,000 |
| CITY OF GREEN BAY | $19,450 |
| COUNTY OF ALAMEDA | $19,300 |
| CITY OF SHORELINE | $15,000 |
| CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO | $15,000 |
| COASTAL QUEST | $15,000 |
| CITY OF BERKELEY | $15,000 |
| CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS | $15,000 |
| KING COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CITY OF SANTA CRUZ | $15,000 |
| CITY OF CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| CITY OF PORTLAND | $14,920 |
| CITY OF OAKLAND | $14,404 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Urban Sustainability Directors Network’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SUSolar United Neighbors Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $295k · revenue +123%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY2× · 2022–2023 · $200k
- RRHEAPLY2× · 2021–2023 · $174k
Funded once
- COCITY OF MIAMIone grant, 2020 · $600k
- UCUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $325k · revenue +52%
- COCITY OF DURHAMone grant, 2020 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and…
The Climate Access Fund develops and finances community solar products that serve low to moderate income households
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
All In Energy is a nonprofit organization that enables underserved residents (historically renters, low-to-moderate income households, people who speak languages other than English, and people of color) to save money on their utility bills…
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
ACT Institute leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.
To enable the commercialization of energy technologies that positively contribute to economic competitiveness, energy security, and the environment.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ceti. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Energy ↗
- Who funds Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT ↗
- Who funds Coastal Quest ↗
- Who funds CETI ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National League of Cities Institute Inc · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · AARP · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · FitLot · US Green Building Council Inc · Global Philanthropy Partnership
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 organization Urban Sustainability Directors Network 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.
- Ceti — 3% of income from government
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 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.