One Earth Philanthropy
Culver City, CA · EIN 85-2588841. Reported 53 grants totalling $5,788,127 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 One Earth Philanthropy, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 32% 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. 14% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $979,978. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $19,774 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vibrant Data Labs | Berkeley, CA | $1,872,028 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Re-Earth Initiative Inc | New York, NY | $950,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $746,354 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Nations Development Corporation | New York, NY | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Resolve Inc | Washington, DC | $276,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Greengrants Fund Inc | Boulder, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $82,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fibershed | San Geronimo, CA | $75,405 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens Earth and Climate Action Network | Mill Valley, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amazon Frontlines | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tribal Link Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dtwo Ltd | San Francisco, CA | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alliance for International Reforestation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compton Kidz Club | Playa Vista, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Marine Life Center Inc | Pocasset, MA | $25,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Akashinga Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amazon Watch | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | West Chester, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Around the World in Eighty Fabrics | Carmel, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Buckminster Fuller Institute | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Detroit Dirt Foundation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Earth Restoration Alliance | Carbondale, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Groundswell International Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rare Inc | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rios to Rivers | Aspen, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sonoran Institute Inc | Tucson, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sustainable Surf | Manhattan Bch, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation | Pescadero, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women for Conservation | Warrenton, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Farmland Trust | Washington, DC | $22,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International | Atlanta, GA | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wild Earth Allies Inc | Chevy Chase, MD | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Akiing Community Development Corporation | Callaway, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Huairou Commission | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rewild | Austin, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sustainability Institute Inc | Burlington, VT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Deep Medicine Circle | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc | Boulder, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inourhands-Dot-Love Incorporated | Westminster, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tribal Eco Restoration Alliance | Upper Lake, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zero Foodprint | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meridian Institute | Drexel Hill, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
5 of 47 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Vibrant Data Labs
Climate Finance Tracker and Climate Solutions Opportunity Roadmap: To develop an interactive, visually searchable map of the corporate accountability ecosystem (focused on nature), including global and local NGOs. - Re-Earth Initiative Inc
SPONSORSHIP OF INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM: THE CASE OF THE LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO CAMPAIGN BETWEEN THE YEARS 1995 AND 2000; BUILDING UP THE YOUTH CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT - Neo Philanthropy Inc
Grant to NEO Philanthropy, Daughters for Earth's new fiscal sponsor (for project spin-off) - United Nations Development Corporation
PROJECT SUPPORT FOR MAPPING NATURE FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET - Resolve Inc
PROTECTING THE HEARTLAND RANCH PRESERVE THROUGH WOMEN-LED CONSERVATION, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR GLOBAL SAFETY NET REPORT; GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR LAND CONSERVATION - Regents of the University of Minnesota
DEVELOPING A GLOBAL ROADMAP FOR FEEDING 10 BILLION PEOPLE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 47 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 | 9 | $848,000 | $35,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $2,178,340 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | $985,455 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | $1,776,332 | $393,177 |
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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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 $25,000 -- 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 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 One Earth Philanthropy's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 8611 Washington Boulevard Ste 8633, Culver City, CA, 90232.
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