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Environmental Working Group
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Phone 202-667-6982 | Fax 202-232-2592 | Email info@ewg.org



Financials


Finances

for tax year ending 12/31/2008

Income$6,242,570.00 
Expenditures$4,501,708.00 
End-Of-Year Net Worth$5,171,374.00 
Tax Status501(c)3 

Selected Grants

Blue Moon Fund
Grant$320,000.00 in 2000
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsTo build consumer demand for foods that are lower in pesticides, thereby reinforcing the public's insistence that the government restrict or ban riskier pesticides
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Grant$200,000.00 in 2001
SourceDonor's Website
DetailsFor a project to analyze recently available public documents describing the dangers of toxic chemicals and the lack of public spending to support sustainable agriculture
Wallace Genetic Foundation
Grant$30,000.00 in 1999
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsTo support research to redirect farm assistance towards the sustainable agriculture agenda
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Grant$245,000.00 in 1999
SourceThe Foundation Center
DetailsFor continued support of… the Environmental Working Group's media campaign for an Internet site about pesticides in the American diet. Grant made via the Tides Center.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant$125,000.00 in 1997
SourceChronicle Of Philanthropy
DetailsFor efforts to implement the new Food Quality Protection Act in ways that reduce the use of extremely hazardous pesticides

Top Funders and Grantees

Funding From Foundations
& Corporations

Total Donated

Time Frame
Joyce Foundation $7,195,000.00 1991 – 2008
Marisla Foundation $3,710,000.00 2000 – 2008
Ford Foundation $3,452,351.00 1989 – 2004
Blue Moon Fund $2,795,000.00 1989 – 2002
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation $2,310,035.00 1989 – 2008
Pew Charitable Trusts $1,895,000.00 1990 – 1997
David & Lucile Packard Foundation $1,500,000.00 1991 – 2008
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $1,455,000.00 1989 – 1999
Beldon Fund $1,350,000.00 1999 – 2005
McKnight Foundation $1,080,000.00 1998 – 2006
Nathan Cummings Foundation $880,000.00 1992 – 2007
John Merck Fund $873,500.00 1992 – 2008
California Wellness Foundation $735,000.00 2001 – 2007
Park Foundation $710,000.00 2004 – 2008
Thomas Phillips & Jane Moore Johnson Foundation $640,750.00 2005 – 2008
Wallace Genetic Foundation $630,000.00 1989 – 2007
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation $625,000.00 1998 – 2007
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $617,351.00 1992 – 1993
Wilburforce Foundation $601,250.00 1998 – 2007
Surdna Foundation $595,000.00 1989 – 2005
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Funding From Other
Activist Groups

Total Donated

Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center
$408,446.00 1996 – 2005
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
$176,000.00 2003 – 2003
As You Sow
$20,000.00 2001 – 2001


Foundations listed on ActivistCash.com may provide funding to a wider variety of nonprofit groups than those profiled here. This website focuses on activist groups that concentrate on food- and beverage-related issues.

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