Natural Resources Defense Council Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-2654926. Reported 603 grants totalling $47.8M to 381 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
381organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$47.8Mgranted, 2020-2023
36%of grantees funded again the next year
25%of dollars to its largest recipient
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 Natural Resources Defense Council Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 381 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $43,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $11.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
All 381 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | $11.9M | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partnership Project Inc | Washington, DC | $3,202,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $3,003,250 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nrdc Action Fund Inc | New York, NY | $2,940,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment | Oakland, CA | $2,406,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coming Clean Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $1,854,924 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc | New York, NY | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Peoria County Health Dept | Peoria, IL | $529,003 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Partnership for Southern Equity | Atlanta, GA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Solutions Project Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Peoria Mass Transit District | Peoria, IL | $410,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stand | San Francisco, CA | $355,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bluegreen Alliance Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $305,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Elevate Energy | Chicago, IL | $304,333 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fair Districts Fund | Washington, DC | $299,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $282,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $278,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $274,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | New York, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Harlem Environmental Action Inc | New York, NY | $233,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Environmental Health Coalition | National City, CA | $230,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alliance for a Just Society | Seattle, WA | $227,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blueprint North Carolina | Durham, NC | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| People's Water Board Coalition | Detroit, MI | $223,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Metec | Peoria, IL | $216,667 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| America Works USA | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Mountain Advocates Inc | Lewisburg, WV | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Voices | Boone, NC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Sustainability Inc | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Light New York Inc | New York, NY | $195,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Tribes of Bristol Bay | Dillingham, AK | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Food Advocates Inc | New York, NY | $187,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy | Washington, DC | $185,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Farm Training Collective Nyc Inc | New York, NY | $184,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nw Energy Coalition | Seattle, WA | $183,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Mexico Voices for Children | Albuquerque, NM | $181,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Frack Action Fund | Highland, NY | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Western Resource Advocates | Boulder, CO | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Black Alliance Inc | Raleigh, NC | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heavens View Community Development Corporation | Peoria, IL | $166,667 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Southwest Energy Efficiency Project LLC | Boulder, CO | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Resources Legacy Fund | Sacramento, CA | $156,667 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Citizens Utility Board of Michigan | Lansing, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orion Society | Gt Barrington, MA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Western Organization of Resource Councils | Billings, MT | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $134,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greenlatinos | Boulder, CO | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | Charlottesvle, VA | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | $127,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New England Aquarium Corporation | Boston, MA | $127,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $126,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Regents of the Univ of California Davis | Davis, CA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Atlantic Council of the U S Inc | Washington, DC | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Maine Peoples Alliance | Portland, ME | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Environmental Law Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $119,689 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy | Los Angeles, CA | $118,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Green Building United | Philadelphia, PA | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $113,870 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization | Chicago, IL | $112,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Upper Manhattan Together Inc | New York, NY | $112,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture | Albuquerque, NM | $111,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bay Area Community Health | Fremont, CA | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Association for Energy Affordability Inc | Bronx, NY | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fresh Energy | Saint Paul, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lawyers for Good Government Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Environmental Investigation Agency | Washington, DC | $97,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services | Houston, TX | $93,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Maine System Inc | Bangor, ME | $91,938 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Saltwater Guides Association Inc | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Saje | Los Angeles, CA | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| We Want Green Too | Detroit, MI | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Division of Homeland Ministry | Indianapolis, IN | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Green 2 0 | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Caucus of Environmental Legislators | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | Berkeley, CA | $83,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| People for Community Recovery | Chicago, IL | $81,911 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yale Law School Learning Center Inc | New Haven, CT | $81,038 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Council for An Energy Efficient Economy | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Celsius | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Health Councils Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Power Interfaith | Harrisburg, PA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Michigan Environmental Action Council Education Foundation | Grand Rapids, MI | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York Inc | Binghamton, NY | $79,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies | Sacramento, CA | $78,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Black Autonomy Network Community Organization | Benton Harbor, MI | $77,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Institute for Local Government | Sacramento, CA | $75,660 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Green Lab | Nashville, TN | $75,658 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice | Commerce, CA | $75,245 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Building Decarbonization Coalition | Lewes, DE | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| E3G Third Generation Environmentalism Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heart of the Rockies Initiative | Missoula, MT | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Naeva | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Energy Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Young Farmers Coalition | Hudson, NY | $72,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clean Memphis Organization | Memphis, TN | $72,364 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colorado Public Interest Research Foundation Inc | Denver, CO | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sustain Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $69,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ecorise Youth Innovations | Austin, TX | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $67,362 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Anthropocene Alliance | Miami, FL | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alliance for Affordable Energy | New Orleans, LA | $63,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| California Environmental Voters Education Fund | Oakland, CA | $60,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Center for Coalfield Justice | Washington, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $60,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Esperanza Community Housing Corporation | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Savanna Institute | Madison, WI | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education | Los Angeles, CA | $58,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $56,950 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blue Planet Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $56,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cec Stuyvesant Cove Inc | Long Island City, NY | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $55,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Little Village Environmental Justice Organization | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ecoworks | Detroit, MI | $53,040 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Beneficial Electrification League | Arlington, VA | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Nfp | Chicago, IL | $51,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Community Water Center | Visalia, CA | $50,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bicycle Colorado | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California | Sacramento, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coalition of Communities of Color | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Economic Advancement Research Institute | Wrentham, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks | Las Cruces, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Micah Six Eight Mission | Sulphur, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators | Lexington, KY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Propel Atl Inc | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Refed Inc | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern Alliance for Clean Energy | Knoxville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southwest Research and Information Center | Albuquerque, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $49,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center | Berkeley, CA | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cooper Square Community Development Committee Inc | New York, NY | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp | New York, NY | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dogwood Alliance Inc | Asheville, NC | $45,842 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Science in Public Participation | Bozeman, MT | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ocean Foundation | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southeast Environmental Task Force | Chicago, IL | $43,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $42,775 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Housing Trust | Washington, DC | $42,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sea Research Foundation Inc | Mystic, CT | $42,112 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust | Los Angeles, CA | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Denver Housing Authority | Denver, CO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Good Jobs First | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio Partners for Afforable Energy | Findlay, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc | Denver, CO | $39,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Open Space Institute Inc | New York, NY | $36,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Coastal Defense Educators | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Environment California Research & Policy Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harambee House Inc | Savannah, GA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Environmental Council | Springfield, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | Fresno, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Missouri Gateway Green Building Council | Saint Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Black Caucus of State Legislators | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Marine Sanctuary Foundation | Silver Spring, MD | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Policy Integrity Inc | Amherst, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pennsylvania Resources Council | Pittsburgh, PA | $32,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Make Food Not Waste | Detroit, MI | $32,350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Transforming Communities Inc | Memphis, TN | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Oakland, CA | $30,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Business Council for Sustainable Energy Foundation | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Civic Policy | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative | Cincinnati, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clean Air California | San Rafael, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Colorado Peoples Alliance | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund | Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Habitable | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kansas University Endowment Assoc | Lawrence, KS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kmartin Group | Gloster, MS | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Consumer Law Center Inc | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Future Inc | Trenton, NJ | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Together Inc | Jersey City, NJ | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Housing Coalition | Durham, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Renew Missouri Advocates | Columbia, MO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The International Center for Dialogue and Peacebuilding | Fairhaven, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Massachusetts | Shrewsbury, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healthy Gulf | New Orleans, LA | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighborspace | Chicago, IL | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio | Grove City, OH | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy | Sacramento, CA | $27,283 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute | Washington, DC | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Equity Legal Services Inc | Fairview Heights, IL | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Green Bank | Rocky Hill, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| El Pueblo Inc | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inclusiv Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc | Hartford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Assn of Latino Elected Officials Naleo Education Fund | Monterey Park, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Hispanic Medical Association | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina Asian Americans Together | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Resilience Action Fund Inc | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rural Coalition | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Smart Growth America | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Manchester Citizens Corporation | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Together Colorado | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sustainable Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $24,625 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Foodplus Detroit | Detroit, MI | $23,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| League of Conservation Voters Inc | Washington, DC | $22,895 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sustainable Business Education Initiative Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ridge to Reefs Inc | Eldersburg, MD | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rooted Wi Inc | Madison, WI | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Environmental Leadership Program | Washington, DC | $20,960 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy | Ventura, CA | $20,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Atlanta Regional Commission | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clean Energy Leadership Institute | Oakland, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coalition for Green Capital | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Faith in Place | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Great Plains Tribal Water Allianceinc | Pine Ridge, SD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gridlab Inc | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force | Hogansburg, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just Transition Alliance | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Keystone Center | Keystone, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing, MI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Native Movement | Fairbanks, AK | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighbors for Environmental Justice Inc | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Audubon Society | Bernardsville, NJ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Northern California Land Trust Inc | Berkeley, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rainforest Action Network | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California | Merced, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sol Nation Inc | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spur-San Francisco Bay Are Planning and Urban Research Association | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated | Miami, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Southern Documentary Fund | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Urban Core Collective | Grand Rapids, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heal the Bay | Santa Monica, CA | $19,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Earthjustice | San Francisco, CA | $19,417 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Civic Fund Inc | Baltimore, MD | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Alliance With Family Farmers Foundation | Davis, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition | Seattle, WA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
138 of 381 (36%) 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.
It also reported 5 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 314 of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 154 | $7,511,020 | $16,500 |
| 2021 | 162 | $24.8M | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 174 | $10.6M | $23,935 |
| 2023 | 113 | $4,900,201 | $20,000 |
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 California. 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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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 $20,000 -- 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 California.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Natural Resources Defense Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 107 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 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: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY, 10011.
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This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.
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