Washington · Nonprofit
EARTH ECONOMICS
EARTH ECONOMICS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,668,811 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,090,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $806k
What Earth Economics does
Mission
Earth Economics quantifies and values the benefits nature provides to communities. As a global leader in science-based economics, we develop pragmatic, collaborative solutions for investment and policy decisions that mitigate risk, add value, and increase resilience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program 1: domestic - our domestic program provides three services:education and awareness building; place-based project analyses; and expertguidance on funding mechanisms to protect and expand natural capital and green infrastructure within the untied states and its territories.
$702,242 spent$712,207 earned by the program77% of program spendingProgram 3; ecosystem valuation toolkit (evt) - the ecosystem valuation toolkit (evt) is a constantly expanding repository of scholarly valuation estimates associated with ecosystem goods and services, currently containging over 5,000 verified values for ecosystem goods and services produced at specific locales, worldwide, by providing a foundation for rigorous and rapid ecosystem service valuation, the evt supports improvements to public and private investment, and an expansion of our understanding of economic impacts and incentives, to better support ecological and financial sustainability.
$159,021 spent$165,121 earned by the program17% of program spendingProgram 2: international - our international program provides three services:education and awareness building; place-based project analyses; and expertguidance on funding mechanisms to protect and expand natural capital and green infrastructure outside of the untied states and its territories.
$49,970 spent$108,870 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $911,233.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.1M (−18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of EARTH ECONOMICS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $493k → $458k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 EARTH ECONOMICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
EARTH ECONOMICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 66% · 2019 50% · 2020 52% · 2021 59% · 2022 53% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
26% of EARTH ECONOMICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
EARTH ECONOMICS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EARTH ECONOMICS is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EARTH ECONOMICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $702k on record — $509k federal, $193k state.
- Department of Agriculture$509k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$193k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EARTH ECONOMICS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARTH ECONOMICS: 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 EARTH ECONOMICS?
- EARTH ECONOMICS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,668,811 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,090,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EARTH ECONOMICS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,668,811 in grants to EARTH ECONOMICS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTH ECONOMICS?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,090,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTH ECONOMICS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 25 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