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Co2 Foundation: 34 grants to organizations, $2.3 million (tax year ended December 2025)
Co2 Foundation, a private foundation in Seattle, WA, paid 34 grants to organizations totaling $2,251,048 in its tax year ended December 2025, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on July 31, 2026. The largest was $190,000 to Climate Central Inc in Princeton, NJ for continuing sea surface temperature attribution modeling, connecting with extreme weather events. / expand our reach to new audiences with webinars, social media, and event-specific tools that will str.
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- EIN
- 833981914
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
- Assets
- $5,718,718
- Grants paid
- $2,251,048
- Tax year ended
- December 2025
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2025
From the Form 990-PF filed July 31, 2026, IRS object ID 202642129349100804. It reported $2,251,048 in grants paid; 34 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Central Inc | Princeton, NJ | Continuing sea surface temperature attribution modeling, connecting with extreme weather events. / expand our reach to new audiences with webinars, social media, and event-specific tools that will str | Science and technology | $190,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | Assess with the use of new climate model simulations if heatwaves could be pre-emptively cooled down with targeted aerosol injection upstream from the heatwave location. / co-produce actionable predic | Education | $189,744 | apps.irs.gov |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | Continuing yale climate connections spanish language hub work, on new platforms. / automate lifesaving extreme weather alerts and climate education during moments of increased public interest. | $145,098 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Common Goal | Brooklyn, NY | Raise awareness of climate change to a global football community and secure action from industrystakeholders. | $99,623 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Conversation Us | Waltham, MA | Continue getting extreme weather science information to the public! | Education | $99,350 | apps.irs.gov |
| Grist Magazine Inc | Seattle, WA | 2025 extremes project focused on the disaster economy a full look at the businesses, labor forces, relief funds, and more that pop up in the wake of climate-induced disasters (and how thats changing u | Environment | $97,050 | apps.irs.gov |
| Northern Arizona University Foundation | Flagstaff, AZ | Use existing biocrust restoration experiments to determine carbon sequestration potential of these activities. | Education | $95,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Institute | Washington, DC | Provides rapid, equity-focused analysis on disasters and disaster recovery needs in the days before, and after, those events, to that expand public conversations to include key equity topics and suppo | Social science | $95,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Climate Foundation | Seattle, WA | Advances hectare-scale marine permaculture development, unlocking vast ocean areas for ecological restoration, sustainable resource production, and long-term carbon storage solutions. | $85,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Oregon Environmental Council (oec) | Portland, OR | 2027 soil health summit and additional natural climate solutions rulemaking stakeholder engagement. | $84,250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | The world's rapid response extreme weather reporting team. | Arts, culture and humanities | $76,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Goodpower | Charlestown, MA | Launching a formal rapid-response content operation that ensures the truth reaches people in minutesnot dayswhen the opportunity arises. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ecoadapt | Bainbridge Island, WA | Support 2026 national adaptation forum and virtual forum. | Environment | $73,750 | apps.irs.gov |
| Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (secoora)(for SCDRP) | Charleston, SC | Leverage regional capacity and partnership reach to focus 2026 annual meeting and conference on delivering a structured and outcome-driven series of presentations and expert panels focused on bridging | $73,150 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | Arlington, VA | The pbs news hour tipping point series creates public awareness about the links between climate change and weather while shining a light on solutions being explored to adapt, mitigate and reverse the | Arts, culture and humanities | $71,250 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mongabay | Menlo Park, CA | Using a solutions-based journalism approach, mongabay will explore the potential of nature-based climate solutions (ncs) for communities to withstand extreme weather events. | $71,250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Council for Occupational Safety and Health | Austin, TX | As climate change and the rollback of workers rights make extreme weather more lethal, national cosh is equipping low-wage workers on the frontlines of extreme weather with storytelling tools, trainin | Public safety, disaster preparedness and relief | $71,250 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tech for Change | San Diego, CA | Floodlight is pakistans first open-source flood mapping platform, enabling real-time, crowd-sourced data on flood risks. this project enhances its reach and functionality to improve early warning, eva | Public and societal benefit | $71,250 | apps.irs.gov |
| Conservation Biology Institute | Corvallis, OR | 2025 state of the climate report. | Environment | $66,800 | apps.irs.gov |
| Social Good Fund (for America Adapts) | Richmond, CA | A three-episode podcast series for the adaptation and resilience (a&r) community. | $58,425 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | Petaluma, CA | Connect monitoring and evaluation data across ca with widely-used carbon modeling programs, aiming to ensure that the practices being incentivized are in fact the most effective. | Animal-related | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Transmediavision USA Inc | Bow, WA | Complete the climate restorers, a 4-film documentary series. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Montana Health Professionals for A Healthy Climate (MTHPHC) | Red Lodge, MT | Continue training mt healthcare professionals to understand and communicate about climate risks. | $46,771 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Ecology (for Kneedeep Times) | San Francisco, CA | Researching and writing follow-up storiesfor each of the five climate extremes. / create a new community reporting network that empowers residents in underrepresented parts of the bay area to share th | $42,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Utah Film Center (for the Here Now Project) | Salt Lake City, UT | Develop social release strategy for the here now project. | $38,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc (for West Virginia University Exte | Morgantown, WV | Create and distribute a comprehensive preparedness guide tailored for west virginia residents facing escalating flood and wildfire risks. | $34,200 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 2025 graduate climate conference. | Education | $27,550 | apps.irs.gov |
| Seattle Foundation | Seattle, WA | Support climate lab, the seattle times ambitious, multi-year initiative on the climate crisis. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Planning Ahead | Durham, NC | Host a series of trauma-informed workshops in durham, nc, equipping vulnerable residents with strategies to prepare for extreme heat and flooding. | Environment | $19,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nature Forward Inc | Chevy Chase, MD | Develop a public awareness campaign utilizing dynamic communications, personal stories and workshops to localize and humanize the dramatic climate and health impacts of the proliferating data center i | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Unthinkable | Salt Lake City, UT | Support the development of field-building resources after the american climate-mental health summit. | Mental health and crisis intervention | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Environmental Defense Fund (edf) | New York, NY | This project will identify actionable strategies for disaster insurers to help lower risks, producing a report to be shared through existing networks within the industry. | $3,562 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Chispa Arizona A Program of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fun | Phoenix, AZ | Gatherings and a summit to discuss/discover and then present what impacted community members want to do with ira funds. | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network (usdn) | Sanford, NC | Resilience hubs video series: sharing community wisdom and experiences (maui and oahu). | $2,475 | apps.irs.gov |
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 12, 2025, IRS object ID 202543169349102184. It reported $1,004,030 in grants paid; 27 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grist Magazine | Seattle, WA | Travelog-style multi-community storytelling tour, focusing on extreme weather impacts and solutions. | Environment | $98,419 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington - Friday Harbor Labs | Friday Harbor, WA | Run a two-week professional training workshop during summer 2024 on projecting the impacts of marine heat waves and other extreme weather events to enhance coastal climate resilience. | $84,746 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Conversation Us | Waltham, MA | Pays for staffing so that the conversation can continue to act as a bridge between evolving science and public awareness, covering extreme weather regularly and consistently so as to keep readers enga | Education | $82,650 | apps.irs.gov |
| Action for the Climate Emergency (ace) | Charlestown, MA | Deliver and analyze a national social media campaign connecting extreme weather events and fossil fuel pollution, including data collection about how info is received in the wake of specific extreme w | $71,250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York, NY | This project will identify actionable strategies for disaster insurers to help lower risks, producing a report to be shared through existing networks within the industry. | Environment | $67,687 | apps.irs.gov |
| Oregon Environmental Council (oec) | Portland, OR | Stakeholder outreach and education on implementation of natural climate solutions in oregon. | $66,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Conservation Biology Institute | Corvallis, OR | 2024 state of the climate paper in bioscience. | Environment | $59,850 | apps.irs.gov |
| League of Conservation Voters - Chispa Az | Phoenix, AZ | House parties and a summit to discuss/discover and then present what impacted community members want to do with ira funds. | $57,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Climate Central | Princeton, NJ | Supporting ocean-based weather event attribution: leadership in communicating clearly about the influence of climate change on weather events. | Science and technology | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Earth Overshoot - Transmediavision | Mount Vernon, WA | Complete episode 1 of the climate restorers (https://www.theclimaterestorers.com), a 4-film documentary series in production. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Yale Program On Climate Change Communication (ypccc) | New Haven, CT | Returning to the spanish-language hub project, with goals of deepening relevance and developing additional reach. | $49,362 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ecoadapt | Bainbridge Island, WA | Fostering a national climate change adaptation conversation and catalyzing the action required for innovative and collaborative climate-amplified extreme weather resilience. | Environment | $47,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network (usdn) | Sanford, NC | Resilience hubs video series: sharing community wisdom and experiences (maui and oahu). | $47,025 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Zero Foodprint | San Francisco, CA | Optimize compost sequestration projects in wa by securing five jurisdictional contracts/collaborations. | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wisconsin Academy | Madison, WI | Wisconsin tribal nations climate change summit aims to convene representatives from all 12 of wisconsins tribal nations to share climate change efforts within each nation, learn from each others work, | $29,250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| GBH | Boston, MA | Rapid response extreme weather reporting team - pilot. | $22,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Montana Health Professionals for A Healthy Climate (MTHPHC) | Red Lodge, MT | Host climate and health in the 406 conference and create a series of articles about health + climate issues across the state. | $20,064 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Ecology - Kneedeep Times | San Francisco, CA | Journalism about the science behind, and community responses to, extreme weather - up to 5 stories about the latest science behind the climate-change driven extreme weather already experienced by west | $18,450 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Graduate climate conference student participation. | Employment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wisconsin Academy | Madison, WI | Supporting the keynote speaker and indigenous and tribal engagement at the november 2024 climate fast forward conference. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Here Now Project | Chicago, IL | Bridge funding to complete and launch film showcasing experiences of extreme weather in 2021. | $3,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Conservation Biology Institute | Corvallis, OR | Finishing 2023 world scientists warning paper in bioscience. | Environment | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Yale Program On Climate Change Communication (ypccc) | New Haven, CT | Supporting the launch of an informational hub to make spanish-language climate change resources available in one easy-to-find online location. | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (atni) | Portland, OR | Empowering tribes to leverage the power of effective networks, reducing the risk of extreme weather impacts and increasing the number of carbon sequestration and mitigation projects on tribal lands. | $2,422 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Ecology - Kneedeep Times | San Francisco, CA | Publishing a special story series exploring adaptation to climate extremes: exploring the reverberations of extreme weather events to make climate adaptation feel urgent, relevant, and actionable for | $2,125 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hasten Regeneration | Palo Alto, CA | Piloting a novel method of sinking biomass into the deep ocean. | $1,730 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Foundation for Water and Energy Education (fwee) | Spokane, WA | Creation of a 2d adventure video game reflecting extreme weather and other climate change-related impacts to the water cycle. | $1,250 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Environment | $543,056 |
| Education | $494,294 |
| Science and technology | $240,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $147,250 |
| Social science | $95,000 |
| Public safety, disaster preparedness and relief | $71,250 |
| Public and societal benefit | $71,250 |
| Animal-related | $50,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Washington | $812,959 |
| Massachusetts | $454,300 |
| California | $360,980 |
| Oregon | $282,822 |
| New Jersey | $240,000 |
| Connecticut | $196,960 |
| New York | $170,872 |
| Arizona | $155,000 |
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Updated July 31, 2026. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.