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Washington DC environmental organizations

There are 1,149environmental organizations in the greater Washington DCmetro area, including the cities of Washington DC, Bethesda, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Alexandria, Arlington, and Reston within the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia. Combined, these Washington DC metro environmental organizationsemploy 17,666 people, earn more than $6 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $18 billion.
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Types of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Natural resource conservation organizations
401
$3,689,446,918
Environmental education organizations
137
$686,721,868
Energy conservation and development organizations
105
$281,626,869
Pollution abatement and control organizations
105
$357,859,375
Botanical nonprofits and horticultural societies
90
$7,833,777
Garden clubs and horticultural programs
69
$3,822,991
Water quality and wetland conservation organizations
67
$188,871,870
Environmental alliances and advocates
59
$132,986,527
Civic environmental and open space organizations
55
$23,271,725
Land conservation organizations
47
$527,328,396
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Job trends for Washington DC environmental organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
179
1-10
149
11-25
59
26-100
58
101 to 1,000
23
1,000+
3
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
195
$250k to $1M
121
$1M to $5M
136
$5M to $25M
69
$25M to $100M
22
$100M+
10
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of environmental organizations in Washington DC

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Friends of the Earth US

Friends of the Earth fights to defend the environment and create a more healthy and just world. We are part of a federation of grassroots groups in 76 countries.
Revenue
$1.4m
Assets
$1.4m
Employees
0
EIN
13-2644641
IRS type
501(c)(4)

Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP)

CLASP improves appliance sustainability and energy performance through labeling and standards, as well as research initiatives with global partnerships.
Revenue
$21.1m
Assets
$22.7m
Employees
47
EIN
33-1112770
IRS type
501(c)(3)

New Venture Fund

New Venture Fund helps fund and support projects related to sustainability, economic opportunity, quality of life, youth development, education in the US.
Revenue
$755.6m
Assets
$1.0b
Employees
1,075
EIN
20-5806345
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Geographic Society (NGS)

The National Geographic Society is scientific and educational organization that pushes the boundaries of exploration to further our understanding of our planet and empower us all to generate solutions for a more sustainable future.
Revenue
$157.6m
Assets
$1.8b
Employees
662
EIN
53-0193519
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Land Trust Alliance Incorporated

Land Trust Alliance works to save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America.
Revenue
$16.0m
Assets
$22.1m
Employees
82
EIN
04-2751357
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Farmland Trust (AFT)

To save the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.
Revenue
$36.7m
Assets
$69.9m
Employees
160
EIN
52-1190211
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Rare

Rare drives social change for environmental protection through empowering communities and individuals worldwide with behavioral science.
Revenue
$25.3m
Assets
$38.3m
Employees
93
EIN
23-7380563
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Green America

Green America is a national, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, membership organization that harnesses economic power--the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace--to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
Revenue
$8.6m
Assets
$18.5m
Employees
52
EIN
52-1660746
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Greenpeace Fund

Greenpeace Fund is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization set up to continue the vital work of Greenpeace by increasing public awareness and understanding of environmental issues through research, the media, and other educational programs.
Revenue
$25.1m
Assets
$52.1m
Employees
0
EIN
95-3313195
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest Trust protects threatened tropical forests and endangered wildlife by partnering with local and community organizations in and around the areas that are being threatened.
Revenue
$41.0m
Assets
$109.6m
Employees
43
EIN
13-3500609
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Forest Foundation

Empowers family forest owners through conservation impact and sustainable management with tens of thousands of landowners and hundreds of partners.
Revenue
$11.7m
Assets
$169.1m
Employees
108
EIN
52-1235124
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Forests

American Forests creates healthy and resilient forests, from cities to wilderness, that deliver essential benefits for climate, people, water and wildlife.
Revenue
$21.9m
Assets
$19.0m
Employees
52
EIN
53-0196544
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ecoamerica

Ecoamerica is a DC-based nonprofit with a program to build leadership, support, and political action for environmental issues.
Revenue
$3.8m
Assets
$3.4m
Employees
24
EIN
20-3895611
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Climate Reality Project

Climate Reality ignites public action by educating about the causes and solutions to climate change through global leadership training.
Revenue
$23.2m
Assets
$25.7m
Employees
110
EIN
87-0745629
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action's mission is to protect their environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental candidates.
Revenue
$6.5m
Assets
$2.8m
Employees
987
EIN
23-7128611
IRS type
501(c)(4)

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth fights to defend the environment and create a more healthy and just world. They are part of a federation of grassroots groups in 76 countries.
Revenue
$18.0m
Assets
$22.3m
Employees
86
EIN
23-7420660
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Rivers

American Rivers protects wild rivers, restores damaged rivers, and conserves clean water for people and nature.
Revenue
$18.6m
Assets
$18.6m
Employees
95
EIN
23-7305963
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Formed in 1928, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 36,000 individual members and 75 affiliated Member Associations representing water quality professionals around the world.
Revenue
$23.6m
Assets
$39.8m
Employees
106
EIN
53-0225129
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Food and Water Watch

Food and Water Watch educates, advocates and conducts research to ensure safe, accessible and sustainably produced food and water.
Revenue
$19.2m
Assets
$24.3m
Employees
124
EIN
32-0160439
IRS type
501(c)(3)

League of Conservation Voters

League of Conservation Voters advocates for environmental laws and policies, educates the public on conservation issues, and holds elected officials accountable.
Revenue
$68.9m
Assets
$21.5m
Employees
135
EIN
52-1733698
IRS type
501(c)(4)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "C00: Environment: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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