Deployus Inc
Boston, MA · EIN 47-2818525. Reported 66 grants totalling $17.8M to 32 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 Deployus Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C35) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $102,500. Half of what it reported fell between $52,500 and $290,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $2,152,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $2,152,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conservative Energy Network | Lansing, MI | $2,050,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $1,661,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| R Street Institute | Washington, DC | $1,395,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Students for Carbon Dividends Inc | Washington, DC | $1,285,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Conservation Coalition Inc | Washington, DC | $1,245,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy Incorporated | Washington, DC | $1,230,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Climate Leadership Council Inc | Washington, DC | $845,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conservative Coalition for Climate Solutions | Falls Church, VA | $775,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $760,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Federation for Advanced Sewage Treatment | St Petersburg, FL | $550,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Flood Coalition Inc | Washington, DC | $545,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Security Project | Washington, DC | $495,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute | Austin, TX | $420,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Associtation of Business & Chambers of Commerce Foundation | Austin, TX | $360,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Evangelical Environmental Network | Woodbury, MN | $312,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rep Environmental Education Foundation | Oakton, VA | $295,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Advanced Energy Institute | Washington, DC | $275,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conserv America | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clean Energy Buyers Association | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nature Is Nonpartisan | Wilmington, DE | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ceres Inc | Boston, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizens Climate Education Corp | Coronado, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clear Skies Texas | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houghton Main Street Foundation | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Conservation Coalition Action Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Common Ground Council Inc | Washington, DC | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions Forum | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
14 of 32 (44%) 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.
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE ORG'S EFFORTS RELATED TO CLEAN ENERGY AND POLLUTION MITIGATION - Conservative Energy Network
TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO CLEAN ENERGY - George Mason University Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE ORG'S EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO CLIMATE-CHANGE MITIGATION - American Flood Coalition
TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO FLOODING AND RESILIENCE - American Water Security Project
TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS RELATED TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND POLLUTION MITIGATION - American Security Project
TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION IN ITS MISSION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 32 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 | 14 | $1,507,250 | $92,500 |
| 2022 | 15 | $2,948,000 | $90,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $1,042,500 | $77,500 |
| 2024 | 27 | $12.3M | $280,000 |
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
45% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $102,500 -- 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 District of Columbia.
- 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 Deployus Inc'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 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 68 Harrison Avenue 605, Boston, MA, 02111.
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