SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION

EIN 946069890 · Donor-advised fund program as reported on Form 990 Schedule D, fiscal year 2023.

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DAF assets
$390K
at fiscal year end
Grants out
$50K
from DAF accounts
Contributions in
$920
received into DAFs
Payout rate
13.0%
median is 12.5%
Accounts
3
funds held at year end
Average account
$130K
assets per fund

At 13.0%, this sponsor paid out above the 12.5% median for sponsors holding more than $10 million.

DAF assets by year

$469K
FY2019
$622K
FY2020
$566K
FY2021
$396K
FY2022
$390K
FY2023

Grants paid by year

$32K
FY2019
$215K
FY2020
$136K
FY2021
$73K
FY2022
$50K
FY2023

A missing year means no return for that year has been released yet, not that the organization was inactive. Years marked fall in the 2020–21 pandemic giving surge, when contributions into donor-advised funds rose sharply across the sector; treat them as an unusual period rather than a baseline.

Grant disclosure

Itemized 94 grant lines totalling $437.9M across 2019–2024 — $4.7M per line.

$250K of this sponsor’s grants went to other DAF sponsors — 0% of its itemized grantmaking. Money moved between sponsors is reported as a grant, but it has not yet reached a working charity. This total counts only organizations whose donor-advised fund program is their primary activity, so grants to universities and hospitals that happen to run a DAF on the side are excluded.

Largest reported recipients

Organizations receiving the most from this sponsor across 2019–2024, as itemized on Schedule I. Only grants above $5,000 must be listed.

RecipientTotal 2019–2024
Sierra ClubEIN 941153307 CA$431.5M
Population Media Center IncEIN 030358029 VT$939K
Partnership Project IncEIN 522192070 DC$650K
Californians United For A Responsible Budget Fs Social And Environmenta runs a DAF programEIN 954116679 CA$510K
Community InitiativesEIN 943255070 CA$320K
Tides Foundation Inland Empowerment runs a DAF programEIN 510198509 CA$250K
University Of California Berkeley Foundation runs a DAF programEIN 946090626 CA$208K
Rocky Mountain InstituteEIN 742244146 CO$200K
The Solutions ProjectEIN 463811348 CA$200K
Right To The City Alliance IncEIN 943462187 NY$175K
VerdeEIN 203685723 OR$150K
Centro Comunitario De AutoayudaEIN 205987399 WA$130K
Grassroots InternationalEIN 042791159 MA$125K
Green Diversity InitiativeEIN 465220283 DC$110K
Environmental Health CoalitionEIN 953798792 CA$100K

How these figures are calculated: methodology and disclosures. Source: IRS Form 990 e-file XML for fiscal year 2023, via the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Payout rate is DAF grants divided by DAF assets at year end. Recipient totals combine tax years 2019–2024 where filings are available. IRS release and parsing lag means recent years are incomplete for many organizations — NCCS advises treating the most recent year in the panel as partial.