Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,451,742 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,792,420). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Environmental Investigation Agency does
Mission
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Eia's forest campaign protects the world's forests, and the people, wildlife and global climate that depend on them, by exposing illegal timber operations and illegal deforestation for production of commodities through undercover investigations; extensive research, data analysis, scientific analysis, campaigning and advocacy for domestic laws that ban imports of products made from illegally cut timber or commodities resulting from illicit deforestation; engaging with businesses and trade associations to make supply chains more traceable and transparent worldwide to reinforce legality and promote sustainability; advocating for forest protection and governance safeguards in trade policies; and strengthening forest governance and community inclusion, which in turn helps communities to thrive and forests to remain standing. Eia conducts investigative field work, desktop detailed research and analysis, and engages extensively with indigenous and local communities, enforcement officials, scientific and policy experts to support advances in technology, policy change in international fora, national, regional and local governments and with local stakeholders to protect forests and the…
$4,904,837 spentof which $1,284,905 as grants66% of program spendingEia wildlife and ocean campaigns envisions a world where the world's most threatened species, including elephants, rhinos, orangutans, and beluga whales, are protected, recovered, and thriving throughout their natural ranges. Eia relies on the best available scientific, customs, and trade data, and intelligence from investigations, to support policies and actions that protect threatened and endangered species. Eia's wildlife campaign works with partners and allies on the ground to stop the illegal and unsustainable killing of, and trade in, elephants and rhinos, and to protect the arctic home of belugas and other whales and the tropical forest habitat of orangutans.eia's approach to wildlife protection falls under two major work areas: 1) protecting terrestrial species from poaching, trafficking, and habitat loss, by upholding international bans on elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn; campaigning for countries and jurisdictions to adopt and implement laws to close down domestic elephant ivory and rhino horn markets, dismantle the organized criminal networks controlling transnational elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking; campaigning to protect all remaining orangutans and their…
$1,167,637 spentof which $213,156 as grants16% of program spendingGlobal climate campaign: eia is leading the international effort for a global phase-out of hydroflurocarbons (hfcs)--a class of potent chlorinated chemicals that are responsible for the antarctic and arctic ozone holes as well as one sixth of all global warming. Eia provides a wide array of information, through primary research and data analysis, to various industrial sectors to facilitate immediate conversions from ozone depleting substances and hfcs to low-gwp climate friendly alternatives. Through comprehensive analysis of scientific knowledge, including atmospheric and chemical sciences, gas chromatography, cutting-edge refrigeration and air-conditioning technology and activities within the montreal protocol, eia works with research organizations, scientists, governments, industry and ngos as well as the technology and economic assessment panel (teap) that was established as the technology and economics advisory body to the montreal protocol parties, to provide technical information related to the alternative technologies that have been investigated and employed to make it possible to virtually eliminate use of ozone depleting substances (such as cfcs and halons), that harm…
$977,906 spent13% of program spendingThe extractive industries campaign aims to reduce mining impacts and injustices worldwide by fighting power imbalance through strategic investigation-led and ground-truthing campaigns. The campaign aims to reinforce local capacities, amplify local voices, and contribute to local resistance worldwide. Our growing portfolio of projects also seeks to prioritize ambitious transparency-based and equity-focused supply chain solutions. For the 2024-2028 period, building on eia's pioneer investigative approaches, our programmatic priorities will include: stopping fossil fuel expansion; fighting industrial mining impacts and injustices, and disrupting minerals trafficking networks.
$389,264 spentof which $42,140 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,439,644.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.1M to $5.7M (+39%).
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 35% · 2018 40% · 2019 61% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 23% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Alexander Von Bismarck
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.0M.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 85% · 2019 82% · 2020 72% · 2021 62% · 2022 55% · 2023 47% — 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
67% of ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
58% of ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10.0M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M 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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY's revenue grew 65% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $887k on record.
- Department of State$887k
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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: 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 INVESTIGATION AGENCY?
- ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,451,742 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,792,420). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $23,451,742 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,792,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY 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 36 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