· Public charity
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc
To build healty communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $1,275,397 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,961,151 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $685,754 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL JUST | $147,054 |
| PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE | $130,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $122,009 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & | $105,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY Recovery | $100,000 |
| GREEN DOOR INITIATIVE | $77,500 |
| DUWANISH RIVER COMMUNITY COAL | $77,500 |
| SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLI | $62,000 |
| PRATT INSTITUE | $54,334 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDS | $52,500 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TO | $50,000 |
| SOCIALAND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTER | $50,000 |
| WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED ALLIAN | $50,000 |
| TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A | $50,000 |
| GREEN LATINOS | $35,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k 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
- PUPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC3× · 2020–2024 · $314k · revenue +28%
- PFPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY3× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +832%
- AFALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- WAWE ACT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- SSSoulful Synergy LLCone grant, 2022 · $279k
- SJSowing Justiceone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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…
The organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
To build healty communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
Founded in 1991, the new york city environmental justice alliance (nyc-eja) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 city-wide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for…
Environmental Justice & Equality
To organize side-by-side with communities, providing them with the skills and resources needed to prevent or clean up pollution at the local level.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
The organization is based in the south bronx and serves immigrants and communities of color by building, growing, and sustaining worker-owned green businesses to create a strong, local, and democratic economy rooted in racial and gender…
The mission of pej is to promote understanding and protection of urban wetlands, enhance community pride, and encourage economic development.
In addition, the organization provided fiscal agency services to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative and Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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. 62 of the 78 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.
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- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds WATER COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WARD ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds West Atlanta Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ↗
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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: Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Movement Strategy Center · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · New York Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Tides Center · The Schmidt Family Foundation
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 West Harlem Environmental Action 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.
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% 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.
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