Environmental Health Coalition
National City, CA · EIN 95-3798792. Reported 40 grants totalling $6,991,852 to 21 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 Environmental Health Coalition, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in environment (NTEE C012).
- How spread out its giving is. 21 distinct organizations, with 59% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $44,828. Half of what it reported fell between $15,750 and $103,333; the smallest was $5,010 and the largest $4,106,321. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Environmental Justice Alliance | Los Angeles, CA | $4,106,321 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Communities for a Better Environment | Huntington Pk, CA | $544,017 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice | Riverside, CA | $461,537 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | $308,450 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center on Race Poverty & Environment | Delano, CA | $276,336 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy | Ventura, CA | $236,919 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Oakland, CA | $217,362 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $156,666 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | Fresno, CA | $117,496 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,696 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education | Los Angeles, CA | $89,656 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mission Edge San Diego | San Diego, CA | $86,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center Inc | National City, CA | $63,141 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City Heights Community Development Corporation | San Diego, CA | $61,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center on Policy Initiatives | San Diego, CA | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| SANDIEGO350 | San Diego, CA | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The San Diego Foundation | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Corps of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $17,245 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grid Alternatives | Oakland, CA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Familiar Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $5,010 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 21 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Communities for a Better Environment
Gen, Green Zones, Energy, Climate - Apen
Gen. Prog. & Climate work - Sdsu Research Foundation
Binational Resilience Initiative
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 21 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $1,246,942 | $58,397 |
| 2022 | 17 | $1,562,579 | $41,573 |
| 2023 | 8 | $4,182,331 | $11,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $44,828 -- 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 California.
- 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 Environmental Health Coalition's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 2727 Hoover Avenue, National City, CA, 91950.
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