Funding search · EIN 237394104 · Washington, DC
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A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 64
- grants reported
- $4.9M
- total given
- 2021–2024
- filing years
- $40,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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3 grants matching “entreprenuers” · $217,000
- $20,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $162,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Our exempt purpose
- $35,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2021
Our exempt purpose
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Powerswitch Action2 grants · $1.3M
- Solar United Neighbors3 grants · $534,018
- Community Power4 grants · $451,000
- Recast City Llc2 grants · $317,408
- Missouri Workers Center2 grants · $224,000
- Social & Environmental Entreprenuer3 grants · $217,000
- Tides Center2 grants · $210,000
- Alliance for Global Justice3 grants · $155,000
- Northeastern University1 grant · $150,000
- Fight for the Future Education Fund1 grant · $120,000
Giving over time
Grant history
All 64 reported grants, largest first.
- $625,000
Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $625,000
Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $200,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2022
Our exempt purpose
- $183,918
Recast City Llc · Takoma Park, MD · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $175,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $162,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Our exempt purpose
- $160,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
- $159,018
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $150,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2022
- $133,490
Recast City Llc · Takoma Park, MD · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $131,000
Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $125,000
Community Power · Coon Rapids, MN · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $122,000
Missouri Workers Center · St Louis, MO · 2022
- $120,000
Fight for the Future Education Fund · Mount Laurel Twp, NJ · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $102,000
Missouri Workers Center · St Louis, MO · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $100,000
Warehouse Workers for Justice · Chicago, IL · 2022
- $97,500
Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Our exempt purpose
- $97,500
Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $92,500
Compost Power · Stroudsburg, PA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $85,000
Business Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $72,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tuscon, AZ · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $67,506
United for Respect Education Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $62,500
Awood Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $60,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tuscon, AZ · 2022
Our exempt purpose
- $60,000
Main Street Alliance · Liberty, NY · 2022
- $55,000
Philadelphia Jobs With Justice · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $52,000
Demand Progress Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $52,000
Make the Road States · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $52,000
The Awood Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $52,000
The Awood Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $50,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $40,000
Align · New York, NY · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $40,000
Clean Water Fund · Mt Clemens, MI · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $35,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $32,400
Defending Rights and Dissent · Washington, DC · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $25,000
Good Jobs First · Washington, DC · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $25,000
Employee Rights Center · San Diego, CA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $25,000
Make the Road States · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $25,000
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
Our exempt purpose
- $23,000
Alliance for Global Justice · Tuscon, AZ · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Bk Rot · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Penobscot Tribal Farm · Indian Island, ME · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Bootstrap Compost · Providence, RI · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Ceiba Arbor Llc · Salem, CT · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Garden Time · Providence, RI · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Global Village at Tuck Away Farm · Grafton, MA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Good Jobs First · Washington, DC · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
New Haven Ecology Project · Hew Haven, CT · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
People'S Solar Energy Fund · Albany, NY · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Social & Environmental Entreprenuer · Calabasas, CA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $20,000
Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
- $15,000
Business Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $15,000
Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust · Auburn, MA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $15,000
Root Life Llc · New Haven, CT · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $14,318
New Working Majority Llc · Collingswood, NJ · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $13,000
Defending Rights and Dissent · Washington, DC · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $10,000
350 Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2024
Our exempt purpose
- $10,000
350 Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $10,000
Ceeds4change · Randolph, MA · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $10,000
Backbone Campaign · Vashon, WA · 2022
- $10,000
Good Jobs First · Washington, DC · 2022
- $10,000
Survellance Tech Oversight Project · New York, NY · 2022
- $8,789
Yotam Marom Consulting · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Our exempt purpose
- $7,000
Minnesota Interfaith Power and Ligh · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
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