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Environmental Working Group
1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20009
Phone 202-667-6982 | Fax 202-232-2592 | Email info@ewg.org



Overview

Finances

for tax year ending 12/31/2003

Income$2,835,245.00 
Expenditures$2,412,054.00 
End-Of-Year Net Worth$1,322,374.00 
Tax Status501(c)3 

Selected Grants

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
Joyce Foundation
Grant$1,620,000.00 in 2000
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsFor Work on [the] 2002 Farm Bill
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
Schumann Center for Media & Democracy
Grant$15,000.00 in 1999
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Detailstoward costs of a newspaper ad to describe the continuing problem with pesticides in the food supply [Ed. note: this was a full-page New York Times advertisement that suggested the 1989 Alar scare didn't go far enough and warned Americans that they should only buy organic apples]
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

Top Funders and Grantees

Funding From Foundations
& Corporations

Total Donated

Time Frame
Joyce Foundation $6,045,000.00 1991 – 2005
Ford Foundation $3,352,351.00 1989 – 1998
Blue Moon Fund $2,795,000.00 1989 – 2002
Pew Charitable Trusts $1,895,000.00 1990 – 1997
Marisla Foundation $1,660,000.00 2000 – 2004
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $1,455,000.00 1989 – 1999
David & Lucile Packard Foundation $875,000.00 1991 – 1998
McKnight Foundation $780,000.00 1998 – 2005
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $617,351.00 1992 – 1993
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $560,000.00 1990 – 2000
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation $500,000.00 1998 – 2002
Beldon Fund $500,000.00 1999 – 2002
Schumann Center for Media & Democracy $495,000.00 1989 – 1999
Surdna Foundation $445,000.00 1989 – 1997
Rockefeller Family Fund $445,000.00 2000 – 2002
Nathan Cummings Foundation $430,000.00 1992 – 1997
John Merck Fund $423,500.00 1992 – 1999
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $414,750.00 1994 – 1998
George Gund Foundation $375,000.00 1990 – 2003
Educational Foundation of America $340,000.00 1989 – 1996
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Funding From Other
Activist Groups

Total Donated

Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center
$396,446.00 1996 – 2003
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
$176,000.00 2003 – 2003
As You Sow
$20,000.00 2001 – 2001


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