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Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated

Public charityFed auditsIRS 990
DBA: % FREDERIC D KRUPP
Environment · NEW YORK, NY · EIN 11-6107128

Money Out (latest fiscal year)

990 · FY ending 2024-09-30
Largest (approx.)
Total spending
$295.8M
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Grants paid
$55.8M
Lobbying
$5.5M
Program services
$91.5M

Professional fundraisers (Sch G Part I)

Firm / PersonActivityStateGrossRetainedNet to org
Gordon Schwenkmeyer IncDirect fundraisingCA$60K$48K$12K
Telefund IncDirect fundraisingMA$43K$29K$14K

Top contractors (990 Part VII §B)

ContractorServiceStateCompensation
Edgemark Partners INCPrinting & mailing—$4.0M
Berlin Rosen LLCcommunications—$1.1M
Donahue Goldberg LLPlegal—$868K
Innovairre Global LLC dba QuadrigaDirect MAIL/postage—$811K
AMP Insights LLCTech & Strat Support—$555K

Lobbying — 501(h) Election (Sch C Part II-A)

Total lobbying expenditures$5.5M
Direct lobbying—
Grassroots lobbying—
501(h) lobbying ceiling—
Lobbying nontaxable amount—
Grassroots ceiling—
Total exempt-purpose expenditures—

Grants Made (Top 50 by amount)

10,000 grants · $2.4B total
RecipientStateIRC sectionCash grantPurpose
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND
EIN 900080500
NY501(C)(4)$7.9Mpublic & government
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
EIN 133615533
NY501(C)(3)$5.7M—
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND
EIN 900080500
NY501(c)(4)$5.4M—
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND
EIN 900080500
NY501(C)(4)$4.6MOperations
Environmental Defense Action Fund
EIN 900080500
NY501(c)(4)$3.8MOperations Support
Tides Foundation
EIN 510198509
CA501(C)(3)$3.3M—
Environmental Defense Action Fund
EIN 900080500
NY501(C)(4)$2.3MOperations support
State of Arizona
EIN 866004791
AZ501(c)(3)$2.0MEcosystems
Partnership Project Inc
EIN 522192070
DC501(c)(3)$1.6MPolitical Affairs
OpenET Inc
EIN 872247137
NV501(C)(3)$1.5M—
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND
EIN 900080500
NY501(C)(4)$1.2M—
Bureau of Reclamation
EIN 840406948
CAOTHER$1.0MEcosystems
Bureau of Reclamation
EIN 840406948
CAOTHER$944KEcosystems
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
EIN 150532082
NY501(C)(3)$932KMETHANE