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Natural Resources Defense Council

Name: Natural Resources Defense Council grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

564
grants reported: $45.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $20,000
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.

What they fund

advocacy

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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.

Top recipients

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

Movement Strategy Center3 grants · $11.9M
Nrdc Action Fund4 grants · $4.8M
Partnership Project2 grants · $2.6M
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs4 grants · $2.4M
Rose Foundation1 grant · $2.4M
Coming Clean4 grants · $1.4M
National Association of City Transportation Officials1 grant · $800,000
Solutions Project1 grant · $500,000
Partnership for Southern Equity1 grant · $500,000
Greater Peoria Mass Transit District1 grant · $410,000

Giving over time

$24.8M

2021

$10.6M

2022

$4.9M

2023

$5.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 564 grants.

$11.7M
Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$2.4M
Rose Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$2.0M
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$1.8M
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$1.6M
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$1.5M
Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$1.1M
Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$900,000
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$800,000
National Association of City Transportation Officials · New York, NY · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$728,750
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$548,324
Coming Clean · Brattleboro, VT · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$500,000
Solutions Project · Oakland, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$500,000
Partnership for Southern Equity · Atlanta, GA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$410,000
Greater Peoria Mass Transit District · Peoria, IL · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$400,000
Coming Clean · West Hartford, CT · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$400,000
Coming Clean · West Hartford, CT · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$294,333
Elevate Energy · Chicago, IL · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$268,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$250,000
Environmental Defense Dc · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$228,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$220,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$200,000
Appalachian Mountain Advocates · Lewisburg, WV · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$200,000
Appalachian Voices · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$200,000
Black Sustainability · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$200,000
Center for Neighborhood Technology · Chicago, IL · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$195,250
Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$185,000
Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy · Durham, NC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$181,000
New Mexico Voices for Children · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$172,800
Alliance for a Just Society · Seattle, WA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$153,000
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$151,400
Dogwood Alliance · Asheville, NC · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$150,000
Western Organization of Resources Councils · Billings, MT · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$150,000
Citizens Utilities Board of Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$134,000
Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$130,000
Standearth · Bellingham, WA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$130,000
Environmental Health Coalition · National City, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$126,667
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$126,000
The George Washington University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$125,000
Community Food Advocates · New York, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$125,000
Nrdc Action Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$120,000
National Wildlife Federation · Reston, VA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$115,000
Building Energy Exchange · New York, NY · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$115,000
Green Building United · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$112,000
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization · Chicago, IL · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$110,000
Frack Action Fund · Highland, NY · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$105,000
The Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Center for Earth Energy and Democracy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Communities for a Better Environment · Huntington Park, CA · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Bluegreen Alliance Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Environmental Health Coalition · National City, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Fresh Energy · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Lawyers for Good Government · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
America Works USA · Washington, DC · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$100,000
Blue Green Alliance Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$99,000
Fair Districts Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$95,000
United Tribes of Bristol Bay · Dillingham, AK · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$93,000
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$90,000
Virginia Organizing · Charlottsville, VA · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$90,000
We Want Green Too · Detroit, MI · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$90,000
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project · Boulder, CO · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$85,000
Farm School Nyc · New York, NY · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$83,500
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$83,333
Heaven'S View Community Development Corporation · Peoria, IL · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$82,000
Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
Western Resource Advocates · Boulder, CO · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
Celsius · Washington, DC · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
The Orion Society · Great Barrington, MA · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
Green Latinos · Boulder, CO · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
West Michigan Environmental Action Council · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$80,000
Community Health Councils · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$78,500
New England Aquarium Corporation · Boston, MA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$77,600
Environmental Investigation Agency (Eia) · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$75,660
Institute for Local Government · Sacramento, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
Building Decarbonization Coalition · Lewes, DE · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
Naeva · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (Sweep) · Boulder, CO · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
University of Illinois Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$75,000
E3g Third Generation Environmentalism Limited · Washington, DC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation · Denver, CO · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
Frack Action Fund · Highland, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York · Syracuse, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
Sustain Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
People'S Water Board Coalition · Detroit, MI · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$70,000
Stand · Bellingham, WA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$69,500
Right To the City Alliance · New York, NY · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$69,300
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$68,689
Environmental Law Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$65,000
Western Resource Advocates · Boulder, CO · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$65,000
Building Energy Exchange (Green Light New York) · New York, NY · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$65,000
Western Resource Advocates · Boulder, CO · 2022
Env. Advocacy
$63,500
Ceert · Sacramento, CA · 2021
Env. Advocacy
$62,500
Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$62,500
Community Food Advocates · New York, NY · 2023
Env. Advocacy
$60,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2024
Env. Advocacy
$60,000
The International Center for Dialogue and Peacebuilding · Spring Lake, NJ · 2024
Env. Advocacy

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.