How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in New York?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in New York, $569M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in New York?

$4.8B reached 1,290 environment organizations in New York, from 7,294 funders. 26% came from funders also based in New York.

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 · New York · Environment

Who funds environment in New York

Most of it comes from outside New York: only 26% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. New York's environment organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 6 funders each.

$4.8B

granted

1,290

organizations

26%

from in-state

The short version

7,294 funders gave $4.8B to 1,290 environment organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
26% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $569M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated, at $1.2B.

Largest funders of environment in New York

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$569M 2National Philanthropic Trust$223M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$137M 4The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$115M 5Foundation for the Carolinas$100M 6Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc$83M 7Windward Fund$77M 8Silicon Valley Community Foundation$70M 9The Heising-Simons Foundation$65M 10Climate Imperative Foundation$64M

Environment organizations in New York that draw the most

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

1,280 other environment organizations$2.0B

Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$1.2B Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$728M Blue Meridian Partners Inc$150M C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc$127M

How to find environment funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to environment in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. 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
74% of environment money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to environment organizations in New York, $569M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in New York?: $4.8B reached 1,290 environment organizations in New York, from 7,294 funders. 26% came from funders also based in New York.
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.