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NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 1810 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,986,587 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,935,842). 1229 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$249M
Revenue FY2025
1,810
Funders on record
$592M
Grants received
$539M
Net assets
1229/1810 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 environment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($177M) Expenses 100 ($129M) Net assets 100 ($306M)2018 Revenue 103 ($182M) Expenses 116 ($149M) Net assets 114 ($349M)2019 Revenue 103 ($182M) Expenses 134 ($173M) Net assets 120 ($367M)2020 Revenue 112 ($198M) Expenses 144 ($185M) Net assets 126 ($387M)2021 Revenue 155 ($274M) Expenses 141 ($182M) Net assets 178 ($546M)2022 Revenue 105 ($186M) Expenses 165 ($212M) Net assets 155 ($476M)2023 Revenue 109 ($193M) Expenses 176 ($227M) Net assets 151 ($463M)2024 Revenue 115 ($204M) Expenses 171 ($220M) Net assets 156 ($478M)2025 Revenue 141 ($249M) Expenses 165 ($212M) Net assets 176 ($539M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (165)Net assets (176)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 22 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48M
17
$33M
18
$8.8M
19
$13M
20
$92M
21
$26M
22
$34M
23
$16M
24
$37M
25
4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 599 funders to 758 funders, grant income rose $43M → $78M.

101 of 1810 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $112M from 65 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas); $20M from 3 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Tansy Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1810 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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left

48% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC.

13%
largest funder
24%
top three
~28
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 21% · 2020 10% · 2021 32% · 2022 9% · 2023 20%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

50% of NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 47 states in all.

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
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MN
IL
WI
MI
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MA
OR
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DE
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225M arriving through sponsors registered in 31 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 1810 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 12%Fundraising 13%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 39 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
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PA
NJ
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Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Nrdc Action Fund Inc · exempt
  • Nrdc Action Fund Inc PAC · exempt
  • Nrdc Action Votes · exempt
  • Nrdc India Private Limited · corp_trust
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC?
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC (New York) receives grants from 1810 organizations whose IRS filings report $591,986,587 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($75,935,842). 1229 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 1810 organizations giving $591,986,587 in grants to NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC, 1229 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $75,935,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC 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.

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 1810funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing