Funding search · EIN 742421528 · Grass Valley, CA

True North Foundation

Name: True North Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

68
grants reported: $9.4M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

mining alaska arctic communications refuge tongass network indigenous

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

4 grants matching “tongass” · $505,000

$100,000
National Audubon Society · Anchorage, AK · 2024
General support/ tongass program/ mining program
$155,000
Seacc · Juneau, AK · 2023
Tongass program/mining and clean water program/indigenous outreach/general support
$150,000
Trout Unlimited · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support for tongass and bristol bay programs
$100,000
Audubon Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Tongass program mining program general support

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Alaska Conservation Foundation4 grants · $1.7M
San Francisco Chronicle2 grants · $1.0M
New Venture Fund4 grants · $475,000
The Northern Center3 grants · $450,000
Trout Unlimited3 grants · $450,000
Earthworks2 grants · $450,000
Western Organzation of Resource Councils Education Project1 grant · $360,000
Trustees for Alaska2 grants · $330,000
Seacc2 grants · $310,000
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project1 grant · $310,000

Giving over time

$4.1M

2022

$3.2M

2023

$2.1M

2024

Grant history

All 68 reported grants, largest first.

$961,087
Alaska Conservation Foundation · Anchorage, AK · 2024
Mining network
$500,000
San Francisco Chronicle · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Season of sharing
$500,000
San Francisco Chronicle · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Season of sharing
$375,000
Alaska Conservation Foundation · Anchorage, AK · 2023
General support discovery program mining network/ indigenous travel fund public land program
$360,000
Western Organzation of Resource Councils Education Project · Billings, MT · 2024
Western mining activist/ network mini grants/ general support/ conference
$310,000
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project · Billings, MT · 2022
Western mining activist network, mini grants general support
$300,000
Alaska Conservation Foundation · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support/discovery program/public lands program/mining collective/indigenous voices travel fund
$250,000
Earthworks · Washington, DC · 2024
General support/ circuit rider program/ alaska program
$200,000
Earthworks · Washington Dc, DC · 2022
General support circuit rider program
$190,000
Trustees for Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2023
General support/mining program/arctic refuge program
$155,000
Seacc · Juneau, AK · 2023
Tongass program/mining and clean water program/indigenous outreach/general support
$155,000
Seacc · Juneau, AK · 2022
General support/tongass program/mining and clean water program/indigenous outreachgeneral support
$150,000
The Northern Center · Fairbanks, AK · 2024
General support/mining program/ communications programs
$150,000
New Venture Fund · Newark, DE · 2023
Salmon state
$150,000
The Northern Center · Fairbanks, AK · 2023
General support/mining & communications programs
$150,000
Trout Unlimited · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Priority waters program
$150,000
New Venture Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Fund for a safer future
$150,000
The Northern Center · Fairbanks, AK · 2022
General support/mining & communications programs
$150,000
Trout Unlimited · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support for tongass and bristol bay programs
$150,000
Trout Unlimited · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Alaska office/priority waters project
$140,000
Trustees for Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support/mining program/arctic refuge program
$135,000
Sitka Conservation Society · Sitka, AK · 2023
General support/youth programs
$133,000
Alaska Community Action On Toxics · Anchorage, AK · 2024
General support/ clean water/ mining position
$133,000
Alaska Community Action On Toxics · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Mining program general support
$125,000
Alaska Wilderness League · Washington, DC · 2023
General support/ alaska communications
$125,000
Center for Science in Public Participation · Bozeman, MT · 2023
General support/ alaska/ society for technician environmental professionals
$125,000
Western Mining Action Project · Lyons, CO · 2023
General support
$125,000
Alaska Wilderness League · Washington Dc, DC · 2022
Arctic refuge/tongass communications programs
$125,000
New Venture Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Salmon state
$115,000
Sitka Conservation Society · Sitka, AK · 2022
General support/youth programs
$110,000
Western Mining Action Project · Lyons, CO · 2022
General support
$100,000
National Audubon Society · Anchorage, AK · 2024
General support/ tongass program/ mining program
$100,000
Cook Inlet Keeper · Homer, AK · 2023
General support
$100,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$100,000
Audubon Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Tongass program mining program general support
$100,000
Cook Inlet Keeper · Homer, AK · 2022
General support
$100,000
Earthjustice · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support/alaska office
$100,000
Legal Assistance for Seniors · Oakland, CA · 2022
General support
$95,000
Resource Media · Beaverton, OR · 2023
Alaska/ mining media
$95,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Rivers without borders
$95,000
Resource Media · Seattle, WA · 2022
Western mining activist network trainings/ alaska communication trainings
$95,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Rivers without borders
$90,000
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2024
Mining program/ communications program
$80,000
The Sierra Fund · Neveda City, CA · 2024
General support/ mining program
$80,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Washington, DC · 2023
Mining program
$80,000
Native American Rights Fund · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Arctic refuge program general support
$80,000
The Sierra Fund · Neveda City, CA · 2023
General support mining program
$80,000
National Parks Conservation Association · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Mining program
$80,000
Native American Rights Fund · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Arctic refuge program general support
$75,000
Renewable Energy Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2023
General support
$75,000
Center for Science in Public Participation · Bozeman, MT · 2022
Alaska program/general support
$75,000
Renewable Energy Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support
$65,000
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2023
General support/mining program
$65,000
Advocates for the West · Boise, ID · 2022
General support/mining program
$60,000
Alaska Marine Conservation Council · Anchorage, AK · 2023
General support
$60,000
Native Movement · Fairbanks, AK · 2023
Climate/ environmental justice program
$60,000
Alaska Marine Conservation Council · Anchorage, AK · 2022
General support
$60,000
Native Movement · Fairbanks, AK · 2022
Arctic refuge program
$50,000
Alaska Center Education Fund · Anchorage, AK · 2023
General support
$50,000
Susitna River Coalition · Talkeetna, AK · 2023
General support
$50,000
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2022
Mining program
$50,000
New Venture Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Alaska engagement partnership
$45,000
Susitna River Coalition · Talkeetna, AK · 2022
General support
$40,000
Alaska Conservation Foundation · Anchorage, AK · 2022
Mining conference
$15,000
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies · Homer, AK · 2023
Education programs
$15,000
Samaritan Neighborhood Center · Oakland, CA · 2023
General support/ christmas program
$15,000
Community Living Campaign · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$10,000
Samaritan Neighborhood Center · Oakland, CA · 2022
Christman program

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Similar purposes

Earthworks70 grants · $1.9M
Gemological Institute of America41 grants · $7.7M

Similar grant size

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.