California · Nonprofit
Amazon Watch Inc
Amazon Watch Inc (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,003,043 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($2,148,215). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Amazon Watch Inc does
Mission
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's ecological systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mission: To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's ecological systems.Program Narrative: With our strategies and programs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch continued to work directly with Indigenous communities to build local capacity and advance the long-term protection of their lands. In partnership with their communities, non-governmental organizations, concerned shareholders, and citizens, we utilized the following strategies: We campaigned to persuade decision-makers in corporations, international financial institutions, and governments to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples over decisions that affect their territories. To rectify past harms, we promoted corporate social and environmental accountability through media exposure and shareholder campaigns.
$3,871,466 spentof which $708,526 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,871,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $453k to $6.6M (+1351%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of Amazon Watch Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kenneth Greenstein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $511k → $2.6M.
29 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Amazon Watch Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Amazon Watch Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Amazon Watch Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 10% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of Amazon Watch Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Amazon Watch Inc draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Amazon Watch Inc's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 60 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Amazon Watch Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Amazon Watch Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc?
- Amazon Watch Inc (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,003,043 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($2,148,215). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Amazon Watch Inc have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $18,003,043 in grants to Amazon Watch Inc, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Amazon Watch Inc?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,148,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Amazon Watch Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 170 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing