Earthways Foundation

What Earthways Foundation does

EarthWays Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1985 and headquartered in Malibu, California, that initiates small-scale, model projects spanning four thematic categories: environmental preservation, social justice, arts and education, and consciousness and personal growth. Its portfolio includes Touch The Jungle (Ecuadorian rainforest protection), the Guatemala Food Security Project (organic agriculture in Mayan villages), the Panacocha Reserve (56,000 hectares of protected Amazonian rainforest), Ocean Song (a Sonoma County retreat center), the Emerging Voices youth arts program, and AmaruArts (multimedia intercultural arts in Ecuador). The foundation operates on a donations-and-grants revenue model, with 100% of donated funds directed to projects and administrative expenses covered by the board of directors; it explicitly does not develop proprietary technology.

The organization's go-to-market is project-based and partner-mediated rather than commercial. EarthWays provides fiscal sponsorship, grant administration, and convening infrastructure through affiliated entities, most notably Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), which administers approximately $7 million in annual activity across more than 90 projects, and the John Seed Small Grants Fund, which has disbursed roughly $600,000 to grassroots groups worldwide over 25 years. Multiple initiatives have spun off into independent organizations that maintain cooperative ties with EarthWays, including Amazon Watch (1996), WildRescue (2000), the Foundation for World Arts, and ETINA. Founder Andrew Beath publishes the intellectual framework underpinning the foundation's work through The New Creation Story trilogy and the Consciousness In Action program. The customer base is composed of donors, grantees, partner organizations, and indigenous and rural communities served across Ecuador, Guatemala, Indonesia (Bali), the United States, and a broader set of countries reached through SEE and grantmaking networks.

Name

Earthways Foundation

Legal name

EarthWays Foundation

Website

https://earthways.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

EarthWays Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1985 in Malibu, California that initiates and fiscally sponsors environmental, social-justice, arts, and conscious-activism projects across Ecuador, Guatemala, Bali, and the United States through donations, grants, and partner organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Environmental and Social Justice Foundation

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Forestry & Reforestation (BPAGAGAD), International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH), Agroforestry & Perennial Cropping Systems (EUABABAD)

Keywords

• Environmental conservation
• Social justice initiatives
• Nonprofit grant administration
• Arts and education programs
• Conscious activism

Headquarters

HQ city

Malibu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: EarthWays Foundation operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that relies on individual donations and grants to fund its projects and operations. The organization states that 100% of grants and donations go directly to support projects, as administrative expenses are covered by the board of directors.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

EarthWays Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that initiates and supports small-scale projects across four categories: Environmentalism, Art & Education, Eco-Education & Conscious Activism, and Social Justice. It also administers grantmaking (John Seed Small Grants Fund) and fiscal sponsorship (Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs / SEE) on behalf of grassroots organizations worldwide.

Product overview

Earthways Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1985, not a technology company. It operates as a project-based charitable organization promoting sustainable vision and action for the earth and humanity. The organization develops projects across four main categories: (1) Environmentalism - including Touch The Jungle, Guatemala Food Security Project, Amazon Watch, and Panacocha Reserve; (2) Art & Education - including World Wheel Global Peace Through the Arts, AmaruArts multimedia projects, and Emerging Voices youth arts program; (3) Eco-Education & Conscious Activism - including Ocean Song retreat center, Consciousness In Action program, and Green Business Networking; (4) Social Justice - including Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) fiscal sponsorship program. The organization also publishes educational materials including The New Creation Story trilogy by founder Andrew Beath. Projects often spin off to become independent organizations. EarthWays provides grant-making through the John Seed Small Grants Fund and fiscal sponsorship through SEE.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Amazon Watch: Project working to protect the Amazon Rainforest through collaborative initiatives among local and international organizations.
• WildRescue
• Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
• Foundation For World Arts
• ETINA
• AmaruArts
• Green Business Networking

Products and services

• Touch The Jungle
• Guatemala Food Security Project
• Amazon Watch
• World Wheel, Global Peace Through the Arts
• Ocean Song
• Consciousness In Action
• Emerging Voices Project
• AmaruArts
• Green Business Networking
• Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
• John Seed Small Grants Fund
• The New Creation Story Trilogy

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 25 years, approximately $600,000 in grants has been made to grassroots groups worldwide with an average grant size of $5,000
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

24 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Amazon WatchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAmazon Watch was established in late 1996 in association with EarthWays. The organization catalyzes collaborative initiatives among local and international organizations for long-term protection of the Amazon Rainforest. Project Director Atossa Soltani works from the EarthWays Malibu office.
• Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSEE was created in September 1994 as an affiliate of EarthWays. It fosters social and environmental justice by providing fiscal sponsorship to activists, handling accounting, IRS compliance, and administrative requirements. SEE serves more than 90 projects with about $7,000,000 in annual activity.
• Foundation For World ArtscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating relationships between individuals, artists, and organizations across Los Angeles. Works with EarthWays on the triennial World Festival of Sacred Music, bringing together tens of thousands of people of diverse backgrounds.
• WildRescueminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWildRescue focuses on wildlife casualties and rescue/rehabilitation. Founded in 2000 by Rebecca Dmytryk, it addresses issues in wildlife emergency response. Works in association with EarthWays.
• ETINA: Environmentalism Through Inspiration and Non-violent ActionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn independent project working in association with EarthWays focusing on environmentalism through inspiration and non-violent action. Partners include Code Pink and Burma mission.
• Rainforest Information Centre / John Seed Small Grants FundcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEarthWays administers the Rainforest Information Centre Small Grants Fund, which has distributed approximately $600,000 in grants to grassroots groups worldwide over 25 years. John Seed has worked in the radical environmental movement since 1979.
• Sustainable Sharing with Guatemala (SSG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSSG works with indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala to build models that promote social justice, education, agriculture, environment, and health. EarthWays provides ongoing support and coordination.
• The World Wheel CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocated on 40 acres near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The World Wheel Project continues through arts to support indigenous knowledge and elders. Vijali Hamilton founded this initiative that spans 20 countries over 28 years.
• Biosphere FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBiosphere Foundation conducts Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry projects in Northwest Bali, including restoration of coastal monsoon forest and promoting sustainable agriculture. EarthWays provides annual grants to support this work.
• DECOIN (Defensa Ecologica y Conservacion de Intag)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity conservation organization in Ecuador's Intag Valley. Touch The Jungle supports DECOIN's efforts including organic coffee cooperatives, eco-lodge, women's crafts co-op, and community forest protection against copper mining.
• DECOIN (Defensa Ecologica y Conservacion de Intag)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommunity conservation organization in Ecuador's Intag Valley. Touch The Jungle supports DECOIN's efforts including organic coffee cooperatives, eco-lodge, women's crafts co-op, and community forest protection against copper mining.
• Green World CampaignminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded by Marc Ian Barasch, this campaign focuses on reforestation through agroforestry and planting on degraded lands. Cited by OnEarth/NRDC for its bold agenda of turning degraded lands green and raising rural living standards.
• ArkansasFracking.orgminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAll-volunteer organization informing the public about dangers of hydraulic fracturing in Fayetteville Shale, North Central Arkansas. EarthWays provides support including funding for their documentary film 'Land of Opportunity'.
• Rainforest Information Centre (Australia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in protecting the Panacocha Reserve. RIC has worked to protect the world's rainforests and support indigenous inhabitants since 1979.
• Ancient Forests InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Panacocha Reserve project protecting 56,000 hectares in the Ecuadorian Amazon in collaboration with indigenous communities.
• Rainforest Concern (UK)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUK-based partner in the Panacocha Reserve project working to protect Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
• AFOPADI (Association for Integrated Development)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndigenous Guatemala non-profit organization that EarthWays has partnered with since 1997 for organic agriculture re-introduction in Mayan villages suffering from poverty and malnutrition.
• Ocean SongcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental retreat center in Sonoma County, California. Hosts conscious activism programs based on the seven principles of conscious activism, including workshops on ecopsychology, deep ecology, and social justice.
• AmaruArtscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEcuador-based intercultural team working with multimedia arts and applied ecology. Since 2020, affiliated with EarthWays Foundation as a project. Works on cultural revitalization and planetary regeneration through ancestral wisdom.
• Grupo AllpaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEcuadorian partner organization that administers youth exchange programs and service learning initiatives with AmaruArts.
• Green Business NetworkingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNon-profit project of EarthWays Foundation providing a platform for socially and environmentally conscious businesses to connect, share, and network.
• UCLA Center for Intercultural PerformancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with EarthWays and Foundation for World Arts on the World Festival of Sacred Music - Los Angeles, producing 40 events and 35 multidisciplinary concerts.
• Watts Towers Arts CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Emerging Voices Project bringing together 200 young musicians and dancers from diverse communities for the World Festival of Sacred Music.
• Japanese American Cultural and Community CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Emerging Voices Project and World Festival of Sacred Music - Los Angeles.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• New Venture Fund: Major fiscal sponsor for environmental, democracy, and public health projects; comparable as a 501(c)(3) sponsor entity that channels donations to aligned advocacy projects, though at significantly larger scale.
• Wallace Global Fund: Family foundation funding environmental, climate justice, and democracy movements; comparable as a private grantmaking foundation with environmental advocacy orientation but operating at much larger scale.
• Tides Foundation: Large US fiscal sponsorship and grantmaking foundation supporting progressive social and environmental causes; broader in scale than EarthWays but operating a similar fiscal-sponsorship-plus-grantmaking model.
• Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Major philanthropic advisory and fiscal-sponsorship services organization; comparable as a grantmaking infrastructure provider though at a vastly larger scale than EarthWays/SEE.

Direct peers

• Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE): EarthWays' own fiscal sponsorship affiliate handling ~$7M annually for 90+ social/environmental projects; comparable as a fiscal sponsor enabling grassroots activism via 501(c)(3) administration.
• Amazon Watch: Originally incubated at EarthWays in 1996 and now an independent Amazon rainforest protection organization; directly comparable as a grantmaking/advocacy nonprofit focused on indigenous land rights and ecosystem protection.
• Swift Foundation: Small US family foundation funding biodiversity, indigenous rights, and environmental justice globally; highly comparable in size, mission, and grantmaking approach to EarthWays.
• Rainforest Concern: UK-based rainforest conservation partner of EarthWays on the Panacocha Reserve; directly comparable small nonprofit funding protection of threatened rainforests and supporting indigenous communities.
• Ancient Forests International: Rainforest conservation partner of EarthWays on the Panacocha Reserve; directly comparable small nonprofit focused on protecting old-growth forests and related ecosystems.
• Rainforest Information Centre: Australian environmental nonprofit partner that co-administers the John Seed Small Grants Fund and the Panacocha Reserve; directly comparable grantmaker/advocate for rainforest protection and indigenous rights.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Subsidiaries7 records

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