Natural Resources Defense Council Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-2654926. Reported 719 grants totalling $53.1M to 432 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
432organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$53.1Mgranted, 2020-2024
36%of grantees funded again the next year
22%of dollars to its largest recipient
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 Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 432 distinct organizations, with 22% 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 much its list changes. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $11.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
All 432 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received a reported grant.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | $11.9M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nrdc Action Fund Inc | New York, NY | $4,940,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Partnership Project Inc | Washington, DC | $3,355,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $3,072,550 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment | Oakland, CA | $2,406,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coming Clean Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $2,254,924 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc | New York, NY | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Peoria County Health Dept | Peoria, IL | $529,003 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Partnership for Southern Equity | Atlanta, GA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Solutions Project Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Peoria Mass Transit District | Peoria, IL | $410,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stand | San Francisco, CA | $355,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fair Districts Fund | Washington, DC | $324,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $312,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bluegreen Alliance Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $305,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Elevate Energy | Chicago, IL | $304,333 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $278,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $274,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Western Resource Advocates | Boulder, CO | $260,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| America Works USA | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | New York, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Tribes of Bristol Bay | Dillingham, AK | $250,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| West Harlem Environmental Action Inc | New York, NY | $248,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nw Energy Coalition | Seattle, WA | $246,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Environmental Health Coalition | National City, CA | $230,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alliance for a Just Society | Seattle, WA | $227,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blueprint North Carolina | Durham, NC | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| People's Water Board Coalition | Detroit, MI | $223,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Green Light New York Inc | New York, NY | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Metec | Peoria, IL | $216,667 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Appalachian Mountain Advocates Inc | Lewisburg, WV | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Voices | Boone, NC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Sustainability Inc | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dogwood Alliance Inc | Asheville, NC | $197,242 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Food Advocates Inc | New York, NY | $187,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ridgeline Center for Law and Policy | Washington, DC | $185,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Farm Training Collective Nyc Inc | New York, NY | $184,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Voices for Children | Albuquerque, NM | $181,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Frack Action Fund | Highland, NY | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Black Alliance Inc | Raleigh, NC | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heavens View Community Development Corporation | Peoria, IL | $166,667 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC | Boulder, CO | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Resources Legacy Fund | Sacramento, CA | $156,667 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Citizens Utility Board of Michigan | Lansing, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orion Society | Gt Barrington, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Western Organization of Resource Councils | Billings, MT | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Environmental Law Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $139,689 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $134,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upper Manhattan Together Inc | New York, NY | $132,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greenlatinos | Boulder, CO | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | Charlottesvle, VA | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | $127,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | Boston, MA | $127,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $126,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Regents of the Univ of California Davis | Davis, CA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture | Albuquerque, NM | $121,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Atlantic Council of the U S Inc | Washington, DC | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maine Peoples Alliance | Portland, ME | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy | Los Angeles, CA | $118,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Green Building United | Philadelphia, PA | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saje | Los Angeles, CA | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Environmental Investigation Agency | Washington, DC | $114,850 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $113,870 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization | Chicago, IL | $112,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Communities for a Better Environment | Huntington Pk, CA | $111,875 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services | Houston, TX | $108,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bay Area Community Health | Fremont, CA | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Green 2 0 | Washington, DC | $105,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Saltwater Guides Association Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Association for Energy Affordability Inc | Bronx, NY | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Earth Energy and Democracy | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fresh Energy | Saint Paul, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lawyers for Good Government Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Division of Homeland Ministry | Indianapolis, IN | $97,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $95,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $93,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $92,362 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Maine System Inc | Bangor, ME | $91,938 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Anthropocene Alliance | Miami, FL | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The International Center for Dialogue and Peacebuilding | Fairhaven, NJ | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| We Want Green Too | Detroit, MI | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Green Lab | Nashville, TN | $88,158 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Refed Inc | Chicago, IL | $87,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice | Commerce, CA | $86,745 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Caucus of Environmental Legislators | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Policy Integrity Inc | Amherst, MA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| People for Community Recovery | Chicago, IL | $81,911 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yale Law School Learning Center Inc | New Haven, CT | $81,038 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Council for An Energy Efficient Economy | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Celsius | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Health Councils Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Power Interfaith | Harrisburg, PA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| West Michigan Environmental Action Council Education Foundation | Grand Rapids, MI | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York Inc | Binghamton, NY | $79,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies | Sacramento, CA | $78,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Black Autonomy Network Community Organization | Benton Harbor, MI | $77,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute for Local Government | Sacramento, CA | $75,660 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Building Decarbonization Coalition | Lewes, DE | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heart of the Rockies Initiative | Missoula, MT | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Naeva | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Energy Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing, MI | $72,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Young Farmers Coalition | Hudson, NY | $72,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clean Memphis Organization | Memphis, TN | $72,364 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cooper Square Community Development Committee Inc | New York, NY | $71,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp | New York, NY | $71,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc | Denver, CO | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sustain Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $69,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Environmental Voters Education Fund | Oakland, CA | $69,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Water Center | Visalia, CA | $69,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ecorise Youth Innovations | Austin, TX | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center | Berkeley, CA | $67,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $65,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Affordable Energy | New Orleans, LA | $63,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Propel Atl Inc | Atlanta, GA | $62,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Center for Coalfield Justice | Washington, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Esperanza Community Housing Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Savanna Institute | Madison, WI | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc | Denver, CO | $59,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education | Los Angeles, CA | $58,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central United Methodist Church | Detroit, MI | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $56,950 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blue Planet Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $56,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc | Long Island City, NY | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ecoworks | Detroit, MI | $53,040 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Beneficial Electrification League | Arlington, VA | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Nfp | Chicago, IL | $51,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bicycle Colorado | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California | Sacramento, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coalition of Communities of Color | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dalberg Catalyst | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Economic Advancement Research Institute | Wrentham, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks | Las Cruces, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Micah Six Eight Mission | Sulphur, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators | Lexington, KY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Southern Alliance for Clean Energy | Knoxville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southwest Research and Information Center | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $49,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | Fresno, CA | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Science in Public Participation | Bozeman, MT | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Just Transition Nwi Inc | Michigan City, IN | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kmartin Group | Gloster, MS | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Consumer Law Center Inc | Boston, MA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ocean Foundation | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southeast Environmental Task Force | Chicago, IL | $43,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $42,775 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Artisttree Inc-Nfp | Highland Park, IL | $42,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Healthy Gulf | New Orleans, LA | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Housing Trust | Washington, DC | $42,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sea Research Foundation Inc | Mystic, CT | $42,112 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust | Los Angeles, CA | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Denver Housing Authority | Denver, CO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Good Jobs First | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc | East Troy, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio Partners for Afforable Energy | Findlay, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Future Inc | Trenton, NJ | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Open Space Institute Inc | New York, NY | $36,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy | Sacramento, CA | $35,283 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Coastal Defense Educators | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Environment California Research & Policy Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harambee House Inc | Savannah, GA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Environmental Council | Springfield, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Missouri Gateway Green Building Council | Saint Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Black Caucus of State Legislators | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Marine Sanctuary Foundation | Silver Spring, MD | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Resources Council | Pittsburgh, PA | $32,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Make Food Not Waste | Detroit, MI | $32,350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Transforming Communities Inc | Memphis, TN | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Oakland, CA | $30,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Resilience Action Fund Inc | Miami, FL | $30,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Business Council for Sustainable Energy Foundation | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| California Coastkeeper | Sacramento, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Civic Policy | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative | Cincinnati, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clean Air California | San Rafael, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Colorado Peoples Alliance | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund | Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Habitable | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kansas University Endowment Assoc | Lawrence, KS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keystone Center | Keystone, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Together Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Housing Coalition | Durham, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| People and Pollinators Action Network | Niwot, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Renew Missouri Advocates | Columbia, MO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Massachusetts | Shrewsbury, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia New Majority Education Fund | Alexandria, VA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Earthjustice | San Francisco, CA | $29,417 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cape Fear River Watch | Wilmington, NC | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grist Magazine Inc | Seattle, WA | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neighborspace | Chicago, IL | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio | Grove City, OH | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc | Decatur, GA | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesotta | Minneapolis, MN | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute | Washington, DC | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy | Ventura, CA | $26,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Equity Legal Services Inc | Fairview Heights, IL | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Green Bank | Rocky Hill, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ecologistics Inc | Los Osos, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Pueblo Inc | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inclusiv Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc | Hartford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Institute for Energy Innovation | Lansing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Manila Foundation | Stockton, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Assn of Latino Elected Officials Naleo Education Fund | Monterey Park, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Hispanic Medical Association | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Asian Americans Together | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rural Coalition | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Smart Growth America | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Manchester Citizens Corporation | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Together Colorado | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sustainable Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $24,625 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Foodplus Detroit | Detroit, MI | $23,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Public Health Association Inc | Washington, DC | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | $22,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | Washington, DC | $22,895 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Land Stewardship Project | Minneapolis, MN | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sustainable Business Education Initiative Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ridge to Reefs Inc | Eldersburg, MD | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rooted Wi Inc | Madison, WI | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment | Farmingdale, NY | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Environmental Leadership Program | Washington, DC | $20,960 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
154 of 432 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 5 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 361 of 432 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 154 | $7,511,020 | $16,500 |
| 2021 | 162 | $24.8M | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 174 | $10.6M | $23,935 |
| 2023 | 113 | $4,900,201 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 116 | $5,315,665 | $16,625 |
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
42% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund194 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc161 shared recipientsUnited States Energy Foundation144 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program118 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc115 shared recipientsTides Foundation111 shared recipients
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Natural Resources Defense Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 112 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY, 10011.
EIN 13-2654926 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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