Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,728,975 to it, the largest being GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION ($10,593,975). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Growald Climate Fund Inc does
Program
The growald climate fund, inc. Promotes strategic philanthropy in support of a vibrant, healthy, and balanced world in which all species thrive. The primary focus of our work is climate, environment and educational efforts to strengthen social wellbeing. We accomplish this through grantmaking, research, and convenings.
$7,052,707 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $15M to $41M (+171%).
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
Joanna Messing
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $40k → $405k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC’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
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 98% · 2021 62% · 2023 41% — 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
0% of GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630k 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
GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like GROWALD CLIMATE FUND 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC?
- GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,728,975 to it, the largest being GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION ($10,593,975). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $17,728,975 in grants to GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC?
- GORDON AND LLURA GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,593,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWALD CLIMATE FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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