Washington DC environmental organizations

Name: Top 20 Washington DC environmental organizations
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There are 1,039 environmental organizations in the greater Washington DC metro 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 organizations employ 17,968 people, earn more than $6 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $21 billion.

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Types of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Natural resource conservation organizations	409	9,386	$3,617,936,388	$16,608,095,389
Environmental education organizations	139	4,219	$731,957,444	$2,354,554,035
Pollution abatement and control organizations	114	2,353	$408,944,904	$609,444,896
Energy conservation and development organizations	105	726	$286,698,420	$340,725,670
Botanical nonprofits and horticultural societies	92	81	$8,943,432	$45,590,492
Water quality and wetland conservation organizations	76	769	$289,230,295	$363,999,297
Garden clubs and horticultural programs	71	51	$4,446,199	$29,512,912
Environmental alliances and advocates	61	443	$133,317,293	$151,136,809
Civic environmental and open space organizations	58	170	$22,811,885	$208,142,132
Land conservation organizations	46	1,084	$526,861,165	$1,239,594,017

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Job trends for Washington DC environmental organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	178
1-10	146
11-25	64
26-100	55
101 to 1,000	28
1,000+	3

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Washington DC environmental organizations is driven by large organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Student Conservation Association (SCA), New Venture Fund, National Geographic Society (NGS), and Clean Water Action.

Sizes of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	202
$250k to $1M	112
$1M to $5M	140
$5M to $25M	70
$25M to $100M	22
$100M+	10

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like The Nature Conservancy, New Venture Fund, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Conservation Fund, and Conservation International Foundation (CI) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Washington DC environmental organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 1.1% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Washington DC environmental organizations with more than $100 million account for 65.4% of nonprofit earnings.

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

$1.3m

Assets

$1.5m

Employees

EIN

13-2644641

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Rare

Rare drives social change for environmental protection through empowering communities and individuals worldwide with behavioral science.

Revenue

$30.9m

Assets

$40.5m

Employees

102

EIN

23-7380563

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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

$26.3m

Assets

$21.0m

Employees

EIN

33-1112770

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

$232.0m

Assets

$1.9b

Employees

671

EIN

53-0193519

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)

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

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

$34.9m

Assets

$78.0m

Employees

156

EIN

52-1190211

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

$24.3m

Assets

$17.9m

Employees

EIN

53-0196544

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

$4.7m

Assets

$16.6m

Employees

EIN

52-1660746

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

EIN

13-3500609

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

$22.0m

Assets

$48.4m

Employees

EIN

95-3313195

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

$11.3m

Assets

$159.2m

Employees

116

EIN

52-1235124

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Climate Reality Project

The Climate Reality Project mobilizes diverse individuals to advocate for clean energy, reduce emissions, and promote climate justice through education and community engagement.

Revenue

$16.8m

Assets

$22.2m

Employees

121

EIN

87-0745629

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

EIN

20-3895611

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

$5.2m

Assets

$2.0m

Employees

650

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

$16.8m

Assets

$25.1m

Employees

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

$21.8m

Assets

$21.4m

Employees

104

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

$26.8m

Assets

$41.3m

Employees

114

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

$26.0m

Employees

124

EIN

32-0160439

IRS type

501(c)(3)

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

NFWF is dedicated to achieving maximum conservation impact by developing and applying best practices and innovative methods for measurable outcomes. Since its establishment.

Revenue

$415.5m

Assets

$2.7b

Employees

184

EIN

52-1384139

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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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.

Washington DC environmental organizations

Types of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Job trends for Washington DC environmental organizations

Sizes of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Directory of environmental organizations in Washington DC

Friends of the Earth US

Rare

Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP)

National Geographic Society (NGS)

New Venture Fund

Land Trust Alliance Incorporated

American Farmland Trust (AFT)

American Forests

Green America

Rainforest Trust

Greenpeace Fund

American Forest Foundation

The Climate Reality Project

Ecoamerica

Clean Water Action

Friends of the Earth

American Rivers

Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Food and Water Watch

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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