How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Washington, D.C.?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in Washington, D.C., currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, New Venture Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington, D.C. from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in Washington, D.C.?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in Washington, D.C., $362M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in Washington, D.C.?

$6.8B reached 716 environment organizations in Washington, D.C., from 7,267 funders. 19% came from funders also based in Washington, D.C..

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 · Washington, D.C. · Environment

Who funds environment in Washington, D.C.

Environment funding in Washington, D.C. is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Windward Fund leads, and the money reaches 716 groups. Most of it comes from outside Washington, D.C.: only 19% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$6.8B

granted

716

organizations

19%

from in-state

The short version

7,267 funders gave $6.8B to 716 environment organizations in Washington, D.C. across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
19% of that came from funders also based in Washington, D.C.; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in Washington, D.C. is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $362M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Windward Fund, at $596M.

Largest funders of environment in Washington, D.C.

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$362M 2Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation$206M 3New Venture Fund$166M 4The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$165M 5League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$162M 6Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$138M 7National Philanthropic Trust$137M 8Foundation for the Carolinas$128M 9Sequoia Climate Foundation$126M 10United States Energy Foundation$124M

Environment organizations in Washington, D.C. that draw the most

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

706 other environment organizations$3.7B

Windward Fund$596M World Wildlife Fund Inc$540M League of Conservation Voters Inc$374M World Resources Institute$336M Sixteen Thirty Fund$248M The Partnership Project Inc$191M

How to find environment funders in Washington, D.C.

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Start with the funders already active in Washington, D.C.
The funders giving the most to environment in Washington, D.C. are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, New Venture Fund. 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
81% of environment money in Washington, D.C. comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Washington, D.C..

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Washington, D.C.?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in Washington, D.C., currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, New Venture Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington, D.C. from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in Washington, D.C.?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in Washington, D.C., $362M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in Washington, D.C.?: $6.8B reached 716 environment organizations in Washington, D.C., from 7,267 funders. 19% came from funders also based in Washington, D.C..
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 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 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

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.