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Climate Equity Action Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 88-3587010. Reported 93 grants totalling $9,440,000 to 61 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Climate Equity Action Fund, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in environment (NTEE C01).
- How spread out its giving is. 61 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $90,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $125,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $285,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASA in Action | Hyattsville, MD | $480,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Federation of State Conservation Voters Leagues Inc | Atlanta, GA | $425,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Rising Inc | Miami, FL | $400,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make the Road Action Fund Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $370,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Virginia Majority | Alexandria, VA | $345,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Down Home North Carolina | Greensboro, NC | $325,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Peoples Campaign | Detroit, MI | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| We the People Action Fund | Detroit, MI | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | Washington, DC | $245,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Living United for Change in Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $245,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith in Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Take Action Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Voice Our Vote Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Power Action Fund | Harrisburg, PA | $220,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Voters Matter Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $215,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalfield Justice Action | Washington, PA | $205,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania United | Pittsburgh, PA | $205,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progressive Maryland Inc | Lanham, MD | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advance North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $190,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| MN350 Action | Minneapolis, MN | $185,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $185,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voces Unidas Action Fund | Glenwood Spgs, CO | $168,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina-Copal | Minneapolis, MN | $160,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unidos Mn | Minneapolis, MN | $160,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progress Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progressnow | Richmond, VA | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rural Arizona Action | Coolidge, AZ | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Wand | Atlanta, GA | $140,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Organizers in the Land of Enchantment | Albuquerque, NM | $140,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Instituto Power | Phoenix, AZ | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Organize Pennsylvania | Pittsburgh, PA | $125,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Civic Action | Albuquerque, NM | $120,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Land Stewardship Action Fund | Minneapolis, MN | $120,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith in Colorado | Denver, CO | $112,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dreams in Action New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $110,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jobs With Justice | Washington, DC | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 9TO5 Action Fund | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allied Media Action Fund | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Male Voter Project | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Flic Votes Inc | Miami, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nm Native Vote | Albuquerque, NM | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina a Philip Randolph Educational Fund | Raleigh, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Poder Latinx | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Siembra Nc | Charlotte, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Watch Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $90,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance | Philadelphia, PA | $75,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund Inc | Takoma Park, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Action Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Native Voters Alliance Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somos Accion | Santa Fe, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado People's Action | Denver, CO | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alianza for Progress | Kissimmee, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fanm in Action | Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ncaat in Action | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yucca Action | Santa Fe, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tides Advocacy | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Peoples Campaign | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Organizing Alliance | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada Action Fund | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The People's Lobby | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Interfaith Power & Light | Richmond, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Florida Rising Inc
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 61 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
11% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $90,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Climate Equity Action Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 62 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1100 13TH St Nw 800, Washington, DC, 20005.
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