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ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT

ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,334,987 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($4,572,790). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.9M
Funders on record
82
Grants received
$30M
Net assets
$3.9M
51/82 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Environmental Integrity Project does

Mission

Environmental Integrity Project is organized for charitable and educational purposes -- engaging in research and public education on issues of environmental protection and preservation of natural resources

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Oil and gas: eip advocates for the cleanup of petrochemical plants, improved monitoring of plants and hydraulic fracturing sites, and the creation and implementation of regulations to protect nearby communities affected by these operations. Eip takes part in rulemaking, permitting, and enforcement actions to reduce harmful pollutants and greenhouse gas emmissions. Eip also provides the public with timely information about major sources of pollution that contribute to climate change or threaten air and water quality.

    $2,557,133 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Center for applied environmental science: caes seeks to advance environmental justice by providing communities and environmental advocates with high-quality science and engineering expertise. By providing this access, which is a critical element in permitting and siting decisions, legal challenges, and rulemaking efforts, we support disproportionately impacted communities as they seek more power to influence environmental decisions that affect their health and quality of life.

    $663,261 spent
    12% of program spending
  3. Aluminum: eip applies a mix of multi-disciplinary tools as part of its work to clean up climate, air, and water emissions from the aluminum industry. These include enforcement actions and advocacy and legal action to create more protective environmental and pollution control standards.

    $542,849 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Other programs: bay enforcement, biomass/biofuels, aluminum, clean water act, coal general, communications, epa watch, environmental justice, landfill methane, maryland, and steel

    $1,927,881 spentof which $65,000 as grants
    34% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,691,124.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($757k)2018 Revenue 118 ($3.7M) Expenses 106 ($3.4M) Net assets 140 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 178 ($5.6M) Expenses 119 ($3.8M) Net assets 377 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 148 ($4.6M) Expenses 134 ($4.3M) Net assets 423 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 199 ($6.2M) Expenses 163 ($5.2M) Net assets 562 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 198 ($6.2M) Expenses 197 ($6.2M) Net assets 558 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 205 ($6.4M) Expenses 217 ($6.9M) Net assets 495 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 220 ($6.9M) Expenses 212 ($6.7M) Net assets 513 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (212)Net assets (513)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $3.5M (+108%).

$1.4M
$1.7M
$3.5M
$3.8M
$4.8M
$5.4M
$4.6M
$4.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$45k
’17
$302k
’18
$1.8M
’19
$356k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$29k
’22
−$480k
’23
$136k
’24
3.9
months of
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

Eric Schaeffer

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1418201820212020
Joined·+5+2+2+3+3+3+4
No longer listed·1041244
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $4.5M.

13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 INTEGRITY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 INTEGRITY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

59% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT.

15%
largest funder
32%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 40% — 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

51% of ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 INTEGRITY PROJECT draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
WV
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $181 on record.

State$181
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $181

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 ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT

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, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

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NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
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RI
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CO
KY
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VA
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NM
KS
AR
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NC
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HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: 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 INTEGRITY PROJECT?
ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,334,987 to it, the largest being CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($4,572,790). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $30,334,987 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT?
CLIMATE IMPERATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,572,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing