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World Resources Institute
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. Change it. Scale it.": - count it: our work is guided by timely, independent research that is subjected to rigorous peer reviews. - change it: we…
- $95M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $17M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $81,258
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,016,536
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $559M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations World Resources Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $17M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $15M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $15M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $12M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $8.6M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $8.1M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $5.1M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $3.6M | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland College Park | $16,239,278 | 9 | n/a |
| Sdsn Association Inc | $6,606,598 | 8 | 12% |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $6,332,629 | 4 | 4% |
| C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc | $4,633,143 | 6 | 2% |
| Afef Inc | $2,788,944 | 2 | 19% |
| Allotrope Partners LLC | $2,311,680 | 8 | n/a |
| Give Foundation Inc | $2,243,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC | $2,225,294 | 4 | 0% |
| The International Council on Clean Transportation Inc | $2,181,756 | 5 | 7% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,085,148 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 171 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($578k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
World Resources Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Climateworks Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · New Venture Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
About World Resources Institute
- How much does World Resources Institute give?
- World Resources Institute reported 67 itemized grants totaling $17,005,657, out of $94,524,536 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does World Resources Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (97%), International (1%), Social Science (1%).
- Who are World Resources Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Maryland College Park ($16M), Sdsn Association Inc ($6.6M), One Tree Planted Inc ($6.3M).
- Does World Resources Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as World Resources Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Climateworks Foundation, United States Energy Foundation, The Energy Foundation.
- Where is World Resources Institute based?
- World Resources Institute is based in DC.
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