Funding search · environmental justice · New York
Who funds environmental justice work in New York
15 funders have a record of paying for environmental justice work by New York recipients: 70 grants totaling $12.6M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The JPB Foundation ($3.6M), The Schmidt Family Foundation ($750,000) and Open Society Institute ($326,500).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New York recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $750,000 to NEW SCHOOL — ripe for creative disruption: an environmental justice movement fellowship
Resources Legacy FundSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC DBA WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — land or marine conservation, climate change, and/or environmental equity and justice
Largest: $56,667 to M ATIENZA — to create a series of collaborative artworks and archival projects with fisherfolk communities in the bantayan island, philippines, in order to educate the public and raise awarene…
Largest: $150,000 to NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC — encouraging a just transition away from fossil fuels
Largest: $183,000 to THE NEW SCHOOL — project knowledge and insight on the environmental justice impacts of urban flooding and green infrastructure planning to improve decision-making from neighborhood to regional scal…
Largest: $125,000 to NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE — general operating support
Largest: $500,000 to CULTURAL SHED INC — core support for the exhibition particular matter(s) by tomas saraceno addressing the issue of environmental justice and its intersection with race
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $960,263 · through 2024Largest: $310,000 to NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC — sustainable environment
Largest: $75,000 to UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — for environmental justice and civic engagement
Climate Imperative FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $3.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.1M to WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — to support research, education, and outreach about a safe climate future
Largest: $75,000 to WE ACT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — to support environmental justice by building lasting political power in northern manhattan public housing and environmental justice neighborhoods, through a holistic, nonpartisan v…
Largest: $900,000 to CLIMATE MUSEUM — to continue support for fellowships and programming related to environmental justice
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