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Green Advocacy Project
Washington, DC · EIN 81-4823798. Reported 61 grants totalling $25.1M to 50 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 88% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $9,654,900. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Grant Statement | Washington, DC | $22.0M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Voter Information | Washington, DC | $330,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food & Water Action Fund | Washington, DC | $240,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Virginia Majority | Alexandria, VA | $200,000 | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Turnout Project Independent Expenditure Pac | Foxboro, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Top Political Action Committee | San Antonio, TX | $116,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Ohio Pac | Columbus, OH | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beyond Impact | W Hollywood, CA | $110,000 | 3 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund Inc | Takoma Park, MD | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elm Action Fund Pac | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future Now Fund | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizen Voice | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Commonwealth Forward | Charlottesville, VA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Earthworks Action Fund | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alaska Public Interest Research Group Inc | Anchorage, AK | $70,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund Inc | Columbus, OH | $70,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Environmental Voter Project | Boston, MA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Colorado Victory Fund | Denver, CO | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Analyst Institute | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Environmental Voters | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Climate Cabinet Action | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado's People Action | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Voters of Michigan Independent Pac | Ann Arbor, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Strategic Victory Fund | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vote Forward | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Civic Action | Albuquerque, NM | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Voters of So Carolina | Columbia, SC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Colorado Grassroots Action Fund | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Debra Gardner for Delegate | North Chesterfield, VA | $30,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elizabeth Guzman for Delegate | Woodbridge, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wfp Ie Pac | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cause Action Fund | Ventura, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Inc | Boise, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nebraska League of Conservation Voters | Lincoln, NE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Renew New England | Providence, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rights & Democracy | Burllington, VT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worker Power | Phoenix, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington Conservation Voters Action | Seattle, WA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cole for Va | Fredericksburg, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Conservation Voters Iec | Madison, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Katie Sponsler | Colonial Heights, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Wendy Gooditis | Boyce, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Guy for Delegate | Virginia Beach, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helmer for Virginia | Fairfax Station, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York Communities for Change Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willett for Delegate | Henrico, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
1 of 50 (2%) 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.
- Center for Voter Information
TO REGISTER NEW VOTERS AND ENCOURAGE VOTING - Food and Water Action
TO EDUCATE VOTERS AND OTHERS ON BENEFITS OF A CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY - Boston Turnout Project Independent Expenditure Pac
TO HELP ELECT CANDIDATES WHO SUPPORT A TRANSITION TO A CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 50 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 | 58 | $3,078,200 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $8,746,115 | $8,746,115 |
| 2023 | 1 | $3,591,050 | $3,591,050 |
| 2024 | 1 | $9,654,900 | $9,654,900 |
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
91% 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 $50,000 -- 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 Green Advocacy Project'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 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 97 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: 6218 Georgia Avenue Nw No 1-556, Washington, DC, 20011.
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