An expansive study by Yale researchers shines light on the incongruities in environmental grantmaking at a micro and macro level, detailing how a grantee organization’s geography, proximity to cities, budget, and top executive’s sex and race are significant factors for how much grant money goes to environmental nonprofits.
The report Examining Disparities in Environmental Grantmaking: Where the Money Goes written by Dorceta E. Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 billion across three years—from 2015 to 2017. The study is significant not only due to the data it collected, but also how it used the data to make its conclusions. The report is the first of its kind to use network analysis, a type of data science, to examine the relationships between foundation funding networks and grantee funding networks, and where gaps in equity and disbursements may occur.
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