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ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,015,505 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($861,600). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Environmental Grantmakers Association does
Mission
EGA is a member network that supports environmental philanthropy for collective impact for people and planet. EGA works with its members and partners to promote effective environmental philanthropy by sharing knowledge, fostering debate, cultivating leadership, facilitating collaboration, and catalyzing action. What unites EGA members is a commitment to a world with healthy, equitable, and sustainable ecosystems, communities, and economies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Environmental Grantmakers Association was formed in 1987 following a meeting of environmental funders in Washington, DC to discuss common interests and to learn about each others programs. As a result of the enthusiasm generated at the meeting, 12 member foundations from across the United States made plans for future gatherings, exchanged grants lists, and published a directory of foundation program interests. Subsequent meetings reaffirmed the groups interest in facilitating increased communication among grantmakers through EGA. Over 35 years later, our membership spans more than 230 foundations, donor and giving programs, from large and small in terms of giving level and staff size, and includes multiple types of foundations that are concerned with protecting the environment. In 2024 our programs operate in service of member needs for learning, leading and connection. Highlights include the launch of a groundbreaking fellowship and expanded training and capacity building.EGA's strategic focus is its member mandate for impact on race equity. EGA is a member association of grantmakers that offers impactful annual programming for environmntal foundations. Inside Philanthropy…
$3,295,698 spent$149,354 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,295,698.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $3.8M (+26%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Onika Abraham Lee
BSFF Exec Dir
Board chair
Ed Miller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $556k → $1.5M.
14 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 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
56% of ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION: 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 ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION?
- ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,015,505 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($861,600). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $10,015,505 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 114 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