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Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc

Woodwell Climate Research Center conducts science for solutions at the nexus of climate, people and nature.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$11MCivil Rights$4.1MEnvironment$849kHuman Services$368kHealth$95k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $5,695,763, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,183,333 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $487,570 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.4M
$150,478
Median grant
12
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alaska Institute for Justice$1,330,255
Harvard University$648,744
University of Connecticut$628,741
University of Alaska$505,059
University of Alaska Fairbanks$404,390
University of California Santa Barbara$339,430
Arizona State University$264,097
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$258,197
Resources Legacy Fund$200,000
Columbia University$161,381
Yale University$160,283
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst$153,316
World Wildlife Fund Inc$150,478
Rainforest Foundation Inc$100,000
Buzzards Bay Coalition$92,234
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 (FY22–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%Alaska Institute for Justice: $1.6M → 10%Alaska Institute for Justice: $1.3M → 10%Alaska Institute for Justice: $1.2M → 10%ALASKA INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $368k → 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

AK
VT
NH
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 30 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
10

Total granted

$12M
$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentScience & TechHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • AI
    Alaska Institute For Justice
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +79% · 58% of their budget
  • BUZZARDS BAY COALITION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $325k · revenue +99%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $294k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2024 · $213k
  • BM
    BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $71k · revenue +23%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Kachemak Bay Conservation Society. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $1,933,041 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $716,925 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAUniversity of Connecticut: $628,741 · OtherUniversity of ConnecticutUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $579,421 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $552,664 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $485,582 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINO…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $306,322 · Other+20 more: $1,861,100 · Other+20 moreAlaska Institute For Justice: $4,430,618 · Human ServicesAlaska Institute For JusticePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,767,331 · EducationPresident and Fellows …NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $293,854 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSIT…Yale University: $261,114 · EducationYale UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $238,179 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $202,764 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVE…BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $152,010 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $114,984 · Education+4 more: $177,619 · Education+4 moreBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $324,940 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $200,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $150,478 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $179,023 · Science & TechINTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE: $121,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES: $101,769 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $71,386 · Science & TechTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $138,180 · Public BenefitALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM: $31,466 · HealthAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,136 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,063,796Human Services$4,430,618Education$3,207,855Environment$775,418Science & Tech$473,178Public Benefit$138,180Health$31,466Arts & Culture$5,136

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 budgetAlaska Institute For Justice: $4,430,618 over 4y, 58% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,767,331 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $324,940 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $293,854 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $261,114 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $238,179 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $207,227 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $202,764 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $179,023 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $152,010 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $150,478 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $138,180 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE: $121,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $114,984 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES: $101,769 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKACHEMAK BAY CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $72,716 over 3y, 68% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $71,386 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Pacific University: $67,588 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL: $64,703 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCornell University: $63,191 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $33,190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM: $31,466 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $13,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council: $9,599 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,136 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.

  • Who funds Alaska Institute For Justice ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRYOSPHERE CLIMATE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KACHEMAK BAY CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Pacific University ↗
  • Who funds GEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…The Alaska Community …Old Dominion Universi…Trustees of Boston Un…University of Pittsbu…Rasmuson FoundationNational Fish and Wil…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · The Alaska Community Foundation · Old Dominion University Research Foundation · Trustees of Boston University · University of Pittsburgh · Rasmuson Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home