How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in California?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in California, $161M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in California?

$2.8B reached 1,007 environment organizations in California, from 4,261 funders. 48% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Environment

Who funds environment in California

California's environment organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 4 funders each.

$2.8B

granted

1,007

organizations

48%

from in-state

The short version

4,261 funders gave $2.8B to 1,007 environment organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
48% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $161M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Climate Imperative Foundation, at $361M.

Largest funders of environment in California

The funders giving the most to environment organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$161M 2The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$146M 3The Chicago Community Trust$125M 4Sergey Brin Family Foundation$113M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$102M 6Waverley Street Foundation$84M 7Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$77M 8The Benificus Foundation$72M 9Climate Imperative Foundation$65M 10The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham$60M

Environment organizations in California that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

997 other environment organizations$1.4B

Climate Imperative Foundation$361M Resources Legacy Fund$232M Earthjustice$195M Sierra Club Foundation$157M

How to find environment funders in California

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Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to environment in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
53% of environment money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in California, $161M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in California?: $2.8B reached 1,007 environment organizations in California, from 4,261 funders. 48% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.