Non-profit

ClimateWorks Foundation

Website:

www.climateworks.org

Location:

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Tax ID:

26-2303250

DUNS Number:

829486807

Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Budget (2020):

Revenue: $178,775,280
Expenses: $110,586,077
Assets: $272,486,239

Formation:

2008

Type:

Left-Wing Pass-Through Organization

Created By:

Hewlett Foundation

Packard Foundation

McKnight Foundation

Chief Executive Officer:

Charlotte Pera

Board Chair:

Susan Tierney

Latest Tax Filing:

2018 Form 990

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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars. 1 The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation created ClimateWorks in 2008 to combat climate change through philanthropy. 2 The foundation seeks a 30 billion-ton reduction of carbon emissions by 2030 by creating a political mandate for forms of energy that it favors. 3

History

In 2007, six foundations, the Hewlett Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Oak Foundation met to discuss how philanthropy could advance environmentalist policy priorities. They sponsored a report on the subject entitled, “Design to Win: Philanthropy’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming.” 4 The report, written by scientists with the California Environmental Associates, argued that because politicians focus on the next election and CEOs focus on the next quarter’s profits, the longer time horizons of philanthropists make them uniquely qualified to address global warming. 5

Design to Win (DTW) advocated for emissions caps and renewable energy quotas. It also urged philanthropists to invest heavily in lobbying to promote so-called “renewable” energy sources through taxpayer subsidies to utilities around the world. 6

 To provide the necessary resources to reshape “the building blocks of the world economy,” the report argued that philanthropic funding for environmentalist issues should triple from the then-$200 million per year to an annual $600 million. 7 To help reach that $600 million goal, the Hewlett Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation, founded ClimateWorks in 2008. 8 Hewlett’s Environment Program Director Hal Harvey took the position as the new foundation’s CEO. 9

ClimateWorks took in donations from wealthy left-wing foundations and issued grants to a network of environmentalist nonprofits. This method of bundling donations for redistribution to vetted nonprofits met a demand by many left-wing funders, who wanted experts to determine where their money would best achieve their environmentalist goals. 10 Many of the recipient nonprofits then funneled money from these grants to more radical environmentalist advocacy groups. 11

Project Catalyst

ClimateWorks created Project Catalyst in May 2008 to provide analysis and policy proposals for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 12 The UNFCCC sought to strike a new international climate agreement before the 1997 Kyoto Protocol expired in 2012. 13

ClimateWorks senior advisor and executive board member George Polk organized the project. 14 At the time, he also advised liberal billionaire George Soros on the investment of $1 billion in private equity related to climate. Soros named him as his representative to the board of the company Powerspan after investing in it in April 2009. 15 A few weeks after Soros made the investment, Powerspan received $100 million from the Department of Energy. 16

Project Catalyst has received criticism for the approach that it took leading up to the Copenhagen Conference. 17 In a March 2009 symposium, representatives from the private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors made their own proposals from which the group produced a synthesis paper. It called for a global agreement that would place “incentives and mandates” on private business to create a low-carbon economy. 18 It calculated that to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial temperatures, global emissions would need to be reduced by 28 percent below projected levels in 2020. 19

Because Project Catalyst had representatives in nearly every country’s delegation, it wielded enormous influence over negotiations and the proposals that the representatives made. 20

During the ClimateWorks’s 2010 Annual Summit, roughly 200 representatives reevaluated the foundation’s methods and strategies. The Oak Foundation played a crucial role in changing ClimateWorks’s direction. Along with other representatives, it pressured the foundation to move away from the top-down approach it had previously taken. The foundation began encouraging its regional partners to take a more active role in the network’s grantmaking strategy and to choose their own projects. Although it still encouraged them to align their giving, but it planned to no longer filter all of the funds through itself on their way to grantees. 21

International Activity

ClimateWorks has announced a “30 by 30” goal, recommended by the DTW report, aiming to reduce annual world-wide heat-trapping emissions by 30 gigatons by the year 2030. 22 It plans to reach this goal by focusing specifically on sectors in countries it considers as having the greatest carbon-reduction potential. 23 The DTW report recommended environmentalist philanthropy focus its attention on the U.S., the European Union countries, China, and India. 24

As shown in the DTW report, ClimateWorks’ founders see international pressure and activism as key to bringing down these emissions. 25

In 2016, the Packard Foundation gave ClimateWorks a $500,000 grant to implement a “production and protection” deal in Indonesia to link that country’s domestic politics to international and private sector investment. 26

The DTW report also recommended that philanthropists fund media propaganda to turn public opinion in each target country toward its goals. The desired outcome of this was twofold: to spur private investment toward favored alternative forms of energy such as wind and solar by creating demand for it; and to mold the politics of each target country to provide special favors for those forms of energy. 27 It recognized that the goal of forcing a global reduction in energy emissions would be to manipulate the politics in diverse political cultures. The report acknowledged that this required allies with inside knowledge of local politics and cultures. It recommended philanthropists identify potential nonprofit allies already established, and when necessary create new ones. 28

Funding

Financial Overview

ClimateWorks is one of the largest recipients of climate “philanthropy” in the world. 29 Between its founding in 2008 and 2018, it received over $1.5 billion and paid out $1 billion in grants to other organizations. 30

ClimateWorks Foundation Financial Overview
YearTotal RevenuesTotal ExpendituresGrants PaidNet Assets
2018$162,843,468$94,198,287$58,435,377$168,758,682
2017$100,104,903$76,314,661$46,217,319$100,124,351
2016$49,823,959$90,981,941$59,994,794$70,268,743
2015$53,886,333$97,004,698$68,021,194$119,351,501
2014$183,667,221$144,197,810$115,788,666$162,171,343
2013$77,427,493$167,901,808$143,934,820$122,426,578
2012$170,391,867$173,154,225$147,733,160$212,645,017
2011$83,026,313$156,891,057$128,021,651$215,248,816
2010$93,350,090$152,815,174$120,500,718$289,237,926
2009$60,272,759$121,947,463$92,782,494$348,718,398
2008$490,518,640$80,125,096$63,858,583$410,393,544
Total:$1,525,313,046$1,355,532,220$1,045,288,776

Donors to ClimateWorks

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is one of the biggest donors to ClimateWorks. In its founding year (2008), it gave ClimateWorks $481.5 million in seed money; ClimateWorks’ total revenues that year were nearly $491 million. 31 From then until at least 2015, ClimateWorks received more than half of its funding from Hewlett. 32 From 2008 to 2011, the Packard Foundation gave $185 million. 33 George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society also heavily contributed,34 as did the Energy Foundation and the Sea Change Foundation. 35

Between 2021 and 2022, the ClimateWorks Foundation’s “Drive Electric Campaign” 36 was one of several recipients of grants from The Audacious Project, an initiative of the TED Foundation with the purpose of funding, “bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.” 37 Other recipients of grants during that period of time include The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and Code for America. 38

The following are all known donations to ClimateWorks Foundation: 39

ClimateWorks Foundation: DonorsAmountYearGrant Description
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$21,250,000 2018Conservation and Science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$10,000,000 2018FOR THE CAMPAIGN FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$5,000,000 2018IN SUPPORT OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$5,000,000 2018FOR THE KIGALI COOLING EFFICIENCY PROGRAM
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$5,000,000 2018Conservation and Science
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$5,000,000 2018TO SUPPORT THE KIGALI COOLING EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$4,400,000 2018FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,500,000 2018FOR THE KIGALI COOLING EFFICIENCY PROGRAM
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation$2,250,000 2018SUPPORTING COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT TO REDUCE DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$2,000,000 2018IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,750,000 2018FOR THE CLIMATE AND LAND USE ALLIANCE PROGRAM
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$1,500,000 2018Conservation and Science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$1,050,000 2018Conservation and Science
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$1,000,000 2018To support efforts to protect the environment by increasing transparency and citizen and community participation in major infrastructure policies plans and projects in the Brazilian Amazon.
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$1,000,000 2018To support efforts to protect the environment by increasing transparency and citizen and community participation in major infrastructure policies plans and projects in the Brazilian Amazon.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,000,000 2018FOR THE CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL INITIATIVE
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$1,000,000 2018IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS.
Ford Foundation$750,000 2018Core support for the Climate and Land Use Alliance to promote land use policies and practices that mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$450,000 2018GENERAL SUPPORT AND FUNDERS TABLE
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$400,000 2018FOR THE TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$400,000 2018FOR THE TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$300,000 2018Conservation and Science
Heising-Simons Foundation$250,000 2018DECARBONIZING GLOBAL SHIPPING
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$250,000 2018TO DEVELOP THE CLIMATE MITIGATION PHILANTHROPY ACCELERATION PLATFORM.
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$250,000 2018In support of the Climate and Land Use Alliance's impact through its operations strategic development and monitoring and evaluations.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$225,000 201875235 Supporting the Health and Climate Fast-Start
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$140,000 2018FOR THE SUSTAINABLE FINANCE PROGRAM
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$100,000 2018Conservation and Science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$60,000 2018FOR USINDIA TRACK II DIALOGUE
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$53,500 2018For grant recipient's exempt purposes
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$50,000 2018FOR THE ENERGY INNOVATION PROJECT
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation$25,000 201875235 Supporting the Health and Climate Fast-Start
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$8,000,000 2017TO SUPPORT THE KIGALI COOLING EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation$7,250,000 2017Supporting community forest management to reduce deforestation and forest degradation
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation$3,750,000 2017Supporting community forest management to reduce deforestation and forest degradation
Good Ventures Foundation$3,000,000 2017Kigali cooling efficiency program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,500,000 2017For the kigali cooling efficiency program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,500,000 2017For general operating support
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$2,000,000 2017TO SUPPORT THE KIGALI COOLING EFFICIENCY PROGRAM.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,750,000 2017For the climate and land use alliance program
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$1,002,500 2017FOR GRANT RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSES
Sandler Foundation$1,000,000 2017Kigali cooling efficiency program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,000,000 2017For the go big initiative
Schwab Charitable Fund$1,000,000 2017Social services/social benefits
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$1,000,000 2017IN SUPPORT OF GENERAL OPERATIONS.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$670,000 2017For communication strategies in brazil and china
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$590,000 2017For the energy innovation project
Ford Foundation$450,000 2017Core support for the Climate and Land Use Alliance to promote land use policies and practices that mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
Rockefeller Foundation$250,000 2017Toward the costs of the health and climate fast-start fund an effort to help leading funders and partners come together to be more strategic efficient and effective in their responses to global climate change
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$250,000 2017TO DEVELOP THE CLIMATE MITIGATION PHILANTHROPY ACCELERATION PLATFORM.
Barr Foundation$150,000 2017To support new mobility learning research and convening’s
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$31,400,000 2016Conservation and science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$7,500,000 2016For general operating support
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$5,635,000 2016For the india catalytic solar finance program and china coal research
Barr Foundation$3,000,000 2016Arts & creativity - to support a multi-foundation partnership to accelerate the phase-out of hydro fluorocarbons (HFCS) while integrating energy efficiency
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,200,000 2016For the climate and land use alliance program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,000,000 2016For campaigns on transportation shipping and communications
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,250,000 2016For support of international engagement and global view function initiatives
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$1,000,000 2016In support of general operations
Oak Foundation USA$600,000 2016Human rights center -core support
Schwab Charitable Fund$560,000 2016Social Services/Social benefits
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$500,000 2016Conservation and science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$420,000 2016Conservation and science
Pisces Foundation$385,000 2016To support the Non-carbon Dioxide (C02) Program and core operations.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$250,000 2016Conservation and science
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$250,000 2016Conservation and science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$250,000 2016For accelerating philanthropic support for climate solutions
Ford Foundation$150,000 2016Core support for the climate and land use alliance to promote land use policies and practices that mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
Barr Foundation$50,000 2016Arts & creativity - to develop a global study on new mobility services electrification and automation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$34,000,000 2015Conservation and science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$3,600,000 2015For the Climate and Land use Alliance Program
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,000,000 2015For the climate briefing service and communications infrastructure support
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,750,000 2015For support of Brazil's Institute for Climate and Society
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$1,700,000 2015For a campaign to reduce short-lived pollutants for climate mitigation
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$1,098,000 2015In support of the climate and land use Alliance's Impact through Targeted monitoring and evaluation and Strategic Development and operations as well as focused support for advancing a partnership among Business Civil Society and Governmen
John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Consolidated$1,000,000 2015In support of general operations.
Schwab Charitable Fund$854,000 2015Social Services/Social Benefits
Schwab Charitable Fund$854,000 2015Social Services/Social Benefits
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$750,000 2015For the protection of the environment; furtherance of related research awareness and policy
Oak Foundation USA$600,000 2015Human rights center - core support
Bloomberg Family Foundation$500,000 2015To support green finance strategy scoping and development in China
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$500,000 2015For support of Larci Mexico
Ford Foundation$100,000 2015Core support for the climate and land use alliance to promote land use policies and practices that mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$80,000,000 2014For general operating support
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$66,100,000 2014Conservation and science
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$20,000,000 2014For general operating support
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$2,000,000 2014For the Latin America regional climate initiative's transportation program
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$700,000 2014For the protection of the environment; furtherance of related research awareness and policy
Schwab Charitable Fund$685,000 2014
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$270,000 2014In support of the Climate and Land Use Alliance's impact through enhanced monitoring evaluation and operations
Ford Foundation$100,000 2014Core support for the climate and land use Alliance to catalyze the potential of forested and agncultural landscapes to mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$66,100,000 2013Climate
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$20,000,000 2013For general operating support
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$1,200,000 2013For the protection of the environment furtherance of related research awareness and policy
Mcknight Foundation$1,000,000 2013For general operating support
Oak Foundation USA$600,000 2013Strengthening ClimateWorks Foundation through core support
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$250,000 2013Climate
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$150,000 2013For the creation of a Latin America regional climate foundation
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$150,000 2013In support of the climate and land use alliance's impact through enhanced monitoring evaluation and communications strategy
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$150,000 2013To enhance the climate and land use alliance's impact through a robust strategic development process that integrates an active monitoring and evaluation process and supports adaptive capacity in light of ever-changing regional internationa
Ford Foundation$100,000 2013Core support for the climate and land use alliance to catalyze the potential of forested and agricultural landscapes to mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$150,000,000 2012For a global initiative to mitigate global climate change
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$66,100,000 2012Climate
Oak Foundation USA$1,250,000 2012Latin American regional foundation
Oak Foundation USA$1,000,000 2012Shakti sustainable energy foundation
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$800,000 2012Support for environmental projects
Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation$150,000 2012To increase the effectiveness of the climate and land use alliance a multi-funder collaborative through a robust monitoring and evaluation process
Ford Foundation$100,000 2012Core support for the climate and land use alliance to catalyze the potential of forested and agricultural landscapes to mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$100,000,000 2011For general operating support
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$66,100,000 2011Climate
McKnight Foundation$12,998,902 2011To support the overall climate works network (regional climate foundations best practice networks global initiatives and continuing to build the network)
Oak Foundation USA$1,000,000 2011Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Heising-Simons Foundation$1,000,000 2011Support for environmental projects
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$800,000 2011Support for environmental projects
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$150,000 2011For general operating support
Ford Foundation$100,000 2011Core support for the climate and land use alliance to catalyze the potential of forested and agricultural landscapes to mitigate climate change and deliver economic social and ecological benefits
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$100,000,000 2010For general operating support
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$46,757,793 2010Climate
McKnight Foundation$13,001,098 2010To support the Overall Climate Works Network (regional climate foundations best practice networks global initiatives and continuing to build the network)
Heising-Simons Foundation$2,000,000 2010Climate
Foundation To Promote Open Society$1,050,000 2010To support analysis by project catalyst that will inform the work of the United Nations high level advisory group on climate change financing
Grantham Foundation For Protection Of Environment$800,000 2010
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$50,000,000 2009For a global initiative to mitigate global climate change
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$40,400,000 2009Climate
McKnight Foundation$11,555,000 2009For a Global Philanthropic Network committed to reducing carbon to avoid the most harmful consequences of global warming
Oak Foundation USA$600,000 2009Investor Strategy on Climate Change (Sep 09- Aug 12)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$61,095,182 2008For a global initiative to mitigate global climate change
David and Lucile Packard Foundation$33,400,000 2008Climate change and networks
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$20,410,000 2008For expenses for the startup of ClimateWorks Foundation and for research
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation$27,520 2008
Total:$1,261,422,495

ClimateWorks Grants

Between 2008 and 2018, the ClimateWorks Foundation paid out over $741 million in grants to other organizations: 40

ClimateWorks Foundation: Grant RecipientYearAmount
Alliance to Save Energy2018$225,000
American Council fo an Energy Efficient Economy2018$200,000
Bank Information Center2018$200,000
Bluegreen Alliance Foundation2018$700,000
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Uni2018$180,000
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc2018$245,979
Calstart Inc2018$100,000
Center for American Progress2018$100,000
Center for Carbon Removal2018$475,000
Ceres Inc2018$570,000
Clasp2018$16,100
Clean Air Task Force2018$400,000
Climate and Health Research Network2018$375,000
Climate Policy Initiative2018$145,796
Coalition for Green Capital2018$945,000
Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas2018$26,000
Columbia University Trustees2018$200,000
Conservation Colorado Education Fund2018$250,000
Earth Island Institute2018$100,000
Energy Foundation2018$1,320,789
Energy Futures Initiative2018$250,000
Environmental Defense Action Fund2018$150,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2018$263,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2018$100,000
Green Tech Action Fund2018$450,000
GreenFaith2018$25,000
Greenpeace Fund Inc2018$150,000
Health Care Without Harm2018$47,520
Independent Diplomat2018$100,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2018$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2018$1,510,503
International Institute for Energy Conservation Inc2018$429,539
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Inc2018$120,000
John Hopkins University2018$114,951
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2018$80,000
MGM Innova Cap Management LLC2018$1,699,039
Mongabay ORG Corp2018$120,000
National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc2018$50,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2018$1,599,531
Northeast States For Coordinated Air Use Management2018$50,000
Northwestern University2018$200,000
OPENAQ2018$100,000
Project on Organizing Development Education and Research LTD2018$100,000
Purpose Campaigns2018$50,000
Rainforest Action Network2018$200,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2018$750,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley2018$240,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2018$263,000
Rights and Resources Institute (RRI)2018$25,000
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc2018$1,200,000
Rocky Mountain Institute2018$600,000
Sierra Club Foundation2018$100,000
Social Good Fund2018$821,219
Sonoma State University2018$56,317
Stand2018$305,000
The Aspen Institute2018$125,000
The Nature Conservancy Inc2018$325,000
The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia2018$116,869
The Regents of the University of Colorado2018$62,000
The Regulatory Assistance Project2018$300,000
The World Bank2018$2,907,541
Trust for Conservation Innovation2018$246,132
Trustees of Boston University2018$150,000
UCLA Foundation - Luskin Center for Innovation2018$50,000
United Nations Development Prog UNDP2018$11,206
United Nations Foundation2018$950,000
University of Denver2018$50,000
US Green Building Council Los Angeles2018$150,000
Vasudha Foundation USA Inc2018$95,515
Waxman Strategies2018$150,000
Windward Fund2018$75,000
Woods & Wayside International Inc2018$200,000
Worcester Polytechnic Institute2018$100,000
World Resources Institute2018$999,063
World Wildlife Fund2018$395,000
Alliance to Save Energy2017$180,000
Americans for Oxford2017$90,000
Bank Information Center2017$300,000
Bluegreen Alliance Foundation2017$144,000
Brookings Institution2017$50,000
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc2017$345,000
Carnegie Endowment2017$150,000
Center for Carbon Removal2017$174,000
Ceres Inc2017$85,100
Clean Air Task Force2017$275,000
Climate and Health Research Network2017$225,000
Climate Central Inc2017$100,000
Coalition for Green Capital2017$230,941
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2017$906,395
Columbia University2017$75,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2017$378,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2017$260,000
Friends of the Earth2017$25,000
Green Tech Action Fund2017$450,000
Health Care Without Harm2017$200,000
Independent Diplomat2017$100,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2017$100,000
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2017$200,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2017$160,950
National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc2017$105,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2017$1,473,902
New Venture Fund2017$370,000
Northeast States For Coordinated Air Use Management2017$200,000
Partnership Project Inc2017$500,000
Power for All2017$140,000
Rainforest Action Network2017$200,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2017$4,250,000
Regents of the University of California Berkeley2017$160,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2017$345,000
Resources for the Future Inc2017$225,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc2017$75,000
Rocky Mountain Institute2017$250,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation2017$25,000
Stand2017$345,000
The Aspen Institute2017$85,000
The Commonwealth Club of California2017$60,000
The Energy Foundation2017$1,600,000
The International Council on Clean Transportation2017$490,000
The Nature Conservancy Inc2017$30,000
Trustees of Boston University2017$120,000
UCLA Foundation2017$50,000
United Nations Foundation2017$65,000
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars2017$127,000
Woods & Wayside International Inc2017$100,000
Woods Hole Research Center2017$32,871
World Resources Institute2017$1,195,372
World Wildlife Fund2017$320,000
Yale University School of Forestry and Env Studies2017$360,349
2 Degrees America Inc2016$203,000
350.org2016$100,000
Alliance to Save Energy2016$220,000
Alliance to Save Energy2016$50,000
Bank Information Center2016$300,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2016$190,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2016$190,000
Bluegreen Alliance Foundation2016$350,000
Board of Trustees of Stanford2016$100,000
Carnegie Endowment2016$200,000
Ceres Inc2016$88,000
Clean Air Task Force2016$250,000
Clean Air Task Force2016$100,000
Climate Action Reserve2016$66,150
Climate and Health Research Network2016$300,000
Climate and Health Research Network2016$100,000
Climate and Health Research Network2016$198,000
Climate Central Inc2016$150,000
Climate Policy Initiative2016$159,500
Climate Policy Initiative2016$100,000
Coalition for Green Capital2016$228,500
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2016$400,000
Commonwealth Club2016$10,000
Commonwealth Club2016$60,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity2016$35,000
Electrification Coalition Foundation2016$200,000
Energy Foundation2016$3,030,000
Energy Foundation2016$4,010,000
Energy Foundation2016$3,200,000
Energy Foundation2016$4,100,000
Energy Foundation2016$675,000
Energy Foundation2016$100,000
Energy Foundation2016$838,000
Energy Foundation2016$400,000
Energy Foundation2016$400,000
Energy Foundation2016$25,000
Energy Foundation2016$350,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2016$200,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2016$576,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2016$450,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2016$110,000
Environmental Integrity Project2016$170,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2016$153,800
Environmental Investigation Agency2016$86,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2016$200,000
Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development Inc2016$250,000
Green Tech Action Fund2016$8,250,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2016$100,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2016$25,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$140,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2016$13,527
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2016$150,000
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2016$200,000
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab2016$200,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2016$200,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2016$80,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2016$120,000
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc2016$85,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$450,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$150,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$150,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$100,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$246,500
Natural Resources Defense Council2016$45,000
New Venture Fund2016$250,000
Northeast States For Coordinated Air Use Management2016$50,000
Oxfam America Inc2016$250,000
Rainforest Action Network2016$450,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2016$425,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2016$415,400
Regents of the University of California Davis2016$25,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2016$125,085
Regents of the University of California Davis2016$125,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2016$60,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2016$500,000
Resources for the Future Inc2016$150,000
Resources for the Future Inc2016$50,000
Rocky Mountain Institute2016$100,000
Rocky Mountain Institute2016$100,000
Sierra Club2016$125,000
Sierra Club Foundation2016$200,000
Sierra Club Foundation2016$178,500
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs2016$150,000
Trustees of Boston University2016$100,000
Trustees of Columbia University2016$125,000
Tufts University Office of Research Administration2016$90,000
University of Arizona Foundation2016$100,000
University of Texas2016$270,000
Vasudha Foundation USA Inc2016$86,575
Woods & Wayside International Inc2016$160,000
World Resources Institute2016$50,000
World Resources Institute2016$100,000
World Resources Institute2016$100,000
World Resources Institute2016$98,831
World Resources Institute2016$300,000
World Wildlife Fund2016$377,261
World Wildlife Fund2016$140,000
World Wildlife Fund2016$5,000
350.org2015$200,000
Alliance to Save Energy2015$200,000
American Council fo an Energy Efficient Economy2015$50,000
American Security Project2015$22,000
Bank Information Center2015$300,000
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc2015$180,000
Carnegie Endowment2015$250,000
Ceres Inc2015$787,879
Ceres Inc2015$200,000
Climate Action Reserve2015$171,075
Climate and Health Research Network2015$50,000
Climate and Health Research Network2015$491,888
Climate and Health Research Network2015$98,000
Climate Central Inc2015$200,000
Coalition for Green Capital2015$250,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2015$1,000,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2015$250,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity2015$35,000
Energy Foundation2015$1,400,000
Energy Foundation2015$5,950,000
Energy Foundation2015$11,895,000
Energy Foundation2015$1,500,000
Energy Foundation2015$26,500
Energy Foundation2015$425,000
Energy Foundation2015$400,000
Energy Foundation2015$400,000
Energy Foundation2015$125,000
Energy Programs Consortium2015$65,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2015$175,000
Environmental Integrity Project2015$150,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2015$200,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2015$500,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2015$70,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2015$40,000
ForestEthics2015$200,000
Green Tech Action Fund2015$910,000
GreenFaith2015$209,750
GreenFaith2015$250,000
Greenpeace Fund Inc2015$220,000
Health Care Without Harm2015$200,000
Independent Diplomat2015$175,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2015$200,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2015$20,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2015$200,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2015$102,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2015$28,965
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$625,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$105,500
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$50,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$500,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$98,500
International Council on Clean Transportation2015$26,402
Molina Center for Strategic Studies and the Environment2015$80,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2015$50,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2015$485,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2015$415,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2015$200,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2015$44,000
New Venture Fund2015$685,000
Oil Change International2015$265,000
Oxfam America Inc2015$250,000
Oxfam America Inc2015$75,000
Partnership for a Secure America Inc2015$20,000
Partnership Project Inc2015$181,500
Partnership Project Inc2015$50,000
PRIME Coaltion2015$125,000
Rainforest Action Network2015$90,000
Rainforest Action Network2015$450,000
Regents of the University of California2015$100,000
Regents of the University of California2015$200,000
Regents of the University of California2015$500,000
Regents of the University of California2015$25,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2015$5,000
Regents of the University of California Davis2015$300,000
Regents of the University of Colorado2015$250,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2015$98,070
Resource Media2015$65,000
Resources for the Future Inc2015$100,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2015$100,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2015$650,000
Sierra Club Foundation2015$60,000
Sierra Club Foundation2015$50,000
Strategies for the Global Environment Inc2015$50,000
Strategies for the Global Environment Inc2015$51,298
The Aspen Institute2015$80,000
The Climate Group Inc2015$135,000
University of Arizona Foundation2015$70,000
US Climate Action Network2015$48,000
US Climate Action Network2015$40,000
Vasudha Foundation USA Inc2015$120,000
Vasudha Foundation USA Inc2015$95,798
World Resources Institute2015$175,000
World Resources Institute2015$250,000
World Resources Institute2015$100,000
World Resources Institute2015$99,920
World Resources Institute2015$156,000
World Resources Institute2015$180,323
World Resources Institute2015$297,533
World Resources Institute2015$149,576
Yale University2015$150,408
Bank Information Center2014$300,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2014$1,850,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2014$300,000
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2014$180,000
Clean Air Task Force2014$60,000
Clean Air Task Force2014$150,000
Climate Policy Initiative2014$74,800
Climate Policy Initiative2014$26,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2014$2,850,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2014$700,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2014$1,550,000
Commonwealth Club2014$50,000
Commonwealth Club2014$50,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity2014$35,000
Energy Foundation2014$22,590,000
Energy Foundation2014$14,400,000
Energy Foundation2014$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2014$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2014$750,000
Energy Foundation2014$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2014$750,000
Energy Foundation2014$200,000
Energy Foundation2014$250,000
Energy Foundation2014$60,000
Energy Foundation2014$500,000
Energy Foundation2014$500,000
Energy Foundation2014$400,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2014$121,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2014$170,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2014$75,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2014$200,000
Environmental Paper Network2014$183,250
Forest Trends Association2014$245,000
Forest Trends Association2014$28,500
Green Tech Action Fund2014$540,000
Green Tech Action Fund2014$450,000
Independent Diplomat2014$160,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2014$120,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2014$90,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2014$170,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$2,800,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$800,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$41,400
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$176,488
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$37,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2014$275,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2014$2,800,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2014$1,100,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2014$304,500
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2014$115,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$4,200,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$1,000,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$53,646
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$52,279
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$250,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$3,000,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2014$600,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2014$150,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2014$60,000
Mongabay ORG Corp2014$50,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2014$200,000
New Venture Fund2014$300,000
New Venture Fund2014$350,000
Ocean Conservancy Inc2014$200,000
Oxfam America Inc2014$30,000
Oxfam America Inc2014$250,000
Rainforest Action Network2014$470,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2014$399,803
Rainforest Foundation Inc2014$61,998
Regents of the University of California2014$150,000
Regents of the University of California2014$30,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2014$5,000,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2014$900,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2014$23,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2014$247,028
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2014$50,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2014$500,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2014$500,000
Securing America's Future Energy Foundation2014$250,000
Story Group Media LLC2014$75,000
The Aspen Institute2014$75,000
The Nature Conservancy Inc2014$95,000
Trustees of Columbia University2014$77,000
Ulu Foundation2014$220,000
Union of Concerned Scientists2014$250,000
university of Maryland2014$82,943
World Resources Institute2014$159,598
World Resources Institute2014$208,328
World Resources Institute2014$770,000
World Resources Institute2014$150,000
World Resources Institute2014$45,603
World Resources Institute2014$150,000
World Resources Institute2014$300,000
World Resources Institute2014$136,644
World Wildlife Fund2014$200,445
Alliance to Save Energy2013$49,974
Aspen Global Change Institute2013$100,000
Bank Information Center2013$400,000
Bank Information Center2013$100,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2013$3,700,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2013$280,000
Carbon Disclosure Project North America Inc2013$107,442
Center for American Progress2013$10,000
Clean Air Task Force2013$357,000
Clean Air Task Force2013$350,229
Clean Air Task Force2013$350,000
Climate Central Inc2013$250,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2013$4,050,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2013$1,000,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2013$198,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2013$75,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity2013$35,000
Earth Innovation Institute2013$100,000
Energy Foundation2013$29,700,000
Energy Foundation2013$18,130,000
Energy Foundation2013$3,000,000
Energy Foundation2013$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2013$1,500,000
Energy Foundation2013$935,000
Energy Foundation2013$715,000
Energy Foundation2013$495,000
Energy Foundation2013$495,000
Energy Foundation2013$450,000
Energy Foundation2013$400,000
Energy Foundation2013$190,000
Energy Foundation2013$150,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2013$275,000
Forest Trends Association2013$80,000
Green Tech Action Fund2013$850,000
Green Tech Action Fund2013$140,000
Greenpeace Fund Inc2013$1,000,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2013$250,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2013$120,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2013$100,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2013$4,010,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2013$1,000,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2013$115,116
Institute for Industrial Productivity2013$83,155
Institute for Sustainable Building Performance2013$156,000
Institute for Sustainable Building Performance2013$45,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2013$4,450,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2013$1,000,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2013$101,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2013$100,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2013$50,000
Aspen Global Change Institute2012$175,000
Bank Information Center2012$350,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Advocacy Network2012$199,250
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2012$4,500,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2012$500,000
Center for International Environmental Law2012$35,000
Clean Air Task Force2012$611,000
Clean Air Task Force2012$300,000
Clean Air Task Force2012$95,072
Clean Air Task Force2012$45,000
Climate Central Inc2012$100,000
Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions 2012$100,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2012$175,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2012$1,000,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2012$5,050,000
Commonwealth Club of California2012$100,000
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity2012$35,000
Energy Foundation2012$1,000,000
Energy Foundation2012$215,000
Energy Foundation2012$400,000
Energy Foundation2012$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2012$450,000
Energy Foundation2012$500,000
Energy Foundation2012$595,000
Energy Foundation2012$30,060,000
Energy Foundation2012$750,000
Energy Foundation2012$1,000,000
Energy Foundation2012$2,250,000
Energy Foundation2012$18,800,000
Energy Foundation2012$835,000
Energy Foundation2012$500,000
Energy Foundation2012$600,000
Energy Foundation2012$250,000
Energy Foundation2012$400,000
Engineers Without Borders2012$5,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2012$229,275
Environmental Investigation Agency2012$300,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2012$20,750
Environmental Investigation Agency2012$52,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2012$415,000
Green Tech Action Fund2012$780,000
Greenpeace Fund Inc2012$400,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2012$635,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2012$3,800,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2012$1,000,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2012$150,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2012$1,000,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2012$5,320,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2012$75,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2012$7,770,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2012$1,000,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2012$150,000
International Institute for Energy Conservation Inc2012$127,200
Natural Resources Defense Council2012$80,000
New Venture Fund2012$250,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College2012$63,000
Rainforest Action Network2012$400,000
Rainforest Action Network2012$350,000
Rainforest Alliance2012$200,000
Rainforest Foundation Inc2012$150,000
Regents of the University fo Colardo2012$300,000
Regents of the University of California Berkeley2012$50,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$145,684
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$65,750
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$183,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$1,000,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$1,080,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$6,020,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2012$160,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc2012$250,000
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund2012$16,000
The Aspen Institute2012$176,000
The Energy and Resources Institute North America2012$20,000
The Forest Trust2012$201,000
The Nature Conservancy Inc2012$148,350
Ulu Foundation2012$220,000
Union of Concerned Scientists2012$450,000
Union of Concerned Scientists2012$240,000
University of Southern California2012$160,000
Winrock International2012$21,302
Woods Hole Research Center2012$16,500
World Resources Institute2012$120,000
World Resources Institute2012$35,000
World Resources Institute2012$50,000
World Resources Institute2012$47,941
World Resources Institute2012$386,641
World Wildlife Fund2012$75,000
Yale University2012$200,000
Yale University2012$99,980
Alliance to Save Energy2011$49,469
Alliance to Save Energy2011$79,249
Alliance to Save Energy2011$50,422
American Associates of the STS Forum2011$50,000
Aspen Global Change Institute2011$275,000
Bank Information Center2011$75,000
Bank Information Center2011$350,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Advocacy Network2011$500,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2011$500,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2011$6,300,000
Center for International Policy2011$150,000
Clean Air Task Force2011$7,000
Clean Air Task Force2011$49,500
Clean Air Task Force2011$905,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2011$850,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2011$84,349
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2011$249,045
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2011$350,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2011$3,765,000
Columbia University Goddard Institute for Space Studies2011$100,000
Energy Foundation2011$75,000
Energy Foundation2011$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2011$13,900,000
Energy Foundation2011$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2011$341,390
Energy Foundation2011$450,000
Energy Foundation2011$24,590,000
Energy Foundation2011$5,700,000
Energy Foundation2011$1,630,000
Energy Foundation2011$1,325,000
Energy Foundation2011$1,150,000
Energy Foundation2011$750,000
Energy Foundation2011$300,000
Energy Foundation2011$400,000
Forest Trends Association2011$170,660
Fresh Energy2011$30,000
Green Tech Action Fund2011$290,000
Green Tech Action Fund2011$450,000
Health Effects Institute2011$68,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2011$195,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2011$250,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2011$3,729,008
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2011$1,000,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2011$4,250,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2011$218,462
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2011$231,539
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2011$200,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2011$100,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2011$6,444,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2011$100,000
International Institute for Energy Conservation2011$94,630
Meridian Institute2011$193,600
Natural Resources Defense Council2011$70,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2011$43,977
Natural Resources Defense Council2011$85,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2011$15,000
New Venture Fund2011$133,039
Rainforest Action Network2011$275,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$400,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$160,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$4,450,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$730,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$1,000,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2011$100,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc2011$250,000
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund2011$16,000
The Commonwealth Club of California2011$100,000
The Regents of the University of Colorado2011$425,000
Ulu Foundation2011$80,000
Union of Concerned Scientists2011$550,000
Woods & Wayside International Inc2011$219,478
World Resources Institute2011$79,847
World Resources Institute2011$200,000
World Resources Institute2011$75,000
World Resources Institute2011$49,571
Yale University2011$20,000
Alliance to Save Energy2010$30,000
Bank Information Center2010$321,750
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2010$500,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2010$8,000,000
California State Protocol Foundation2010$35,000
Center for Clean Air Policy2010$175,000
Center for International Environmental Law2010$200,000
Center for International Policy2010$250,000
Clean Air Cool Planet Inc2010$100,000
Clean Air Task Force2010$270,734
Clean Air Task Force2010$1,130,000
Coalition for Rainforest Nations2010$870,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2010$1,000,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2010$3,735,000
Energy Foundation2010$20,800,000
Energy Foundation2010$19,500,000
Energy Foundation2010$4,000,000
Energy Foundation2010$5,000,000
Energy Foundation2010$200,000
Energy Foundation2010$2,000,000
Environmental Investigation Agency2010$200,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2010$250,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2010$250,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2010$500,000
Institute for Industrial Productivity2010$1,476,000
Institute for Market Transformation2010$354,900
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2010$1,000,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2010$4,250,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2010$400,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2010$4,183,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2010$200,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2010$30,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2010$30,000
New Venture Fund2010$349,512
No on 23 - Californians to Stop Dirty Energy Proposition2010$900,000
Rainforest Action Network2010$290,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2010$1,000,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2010$4,000,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2010$80,000
Resource Media2010$75,000
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund2010$18,000
Sustainable Markets Foundation2010$25,000
The Aspen Institute2010$64,890
The Aspen Institute2010$125,000
The Aspen Institute2010$300,000
The Climate Action Reserve2010$100,000
The Commonwealth Club2010$50,000
The Nature Conservancy Inc2010$1,000,000
UC Davis Foundation2010$50,000
Union of Concerned Scientists2010$50,000
University of Colorado at Boulder2010$476,098
University of Colorado at Boulder2010$349,641
Voluntary Carbon Standard Association2010$356,205
Woods Hole Research Center2010$365,111
Woods Hole Research Center2010$550,000
World Resources Institute2010$395,000
World Resources Institute2010$198,000
World Resources Institute2010$150,000
World Wildlife Fund2010$40,000
Yale University2010$100,000
Asia Society2009$125,000
Bank Information Center2009$138,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2009$6,530,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2009$1,700,000
Carbon War Room2009$35,000
Clean Air Cool Planet Inc2009$255,000
Clean Air Cool Planet Inc2009$155,000
Clean Air Task Force2009$405,000
Clean Air Task Force2009$235,000
Clean Air Task Force2009$172,016
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2009$3,475,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2009$101,000
Commonwealth Club of California2009$45,000
Commonwealth Club of California2009$22,000
Energy Foundation2009$17,600,000
Energy Foundation2009$15,700,000
Energy Foundation2009$6,670,000
Energy Foundation2009$5,300,000
Energy Foundation2009$5,000,000
Energy Foundation2009$2,000,000
Energy Foundation2009$500,000
Energy Foundation2009$250,000
Energy Foundation2009$150,000
Energy Foundation2009$100,000
Green Tech Action Fund2009$800,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2009$492,537
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2009$65,000
Institute for International Economics2009$200,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2009$5,000,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2009$700,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2009$25,000
Marin Country Day School2009$5,000
Marin County Bicycle Coalition2009$8,000
Regents of the University of California Berkeley2009$75,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2009$2,911,500
Regulatory Assistance Project2009$33,200
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund2009$18,000
San Juan Preservation Trust2009$5,000
Sustainability Institute Inc2009$348,666
The Aspen Institute2009$300,000
The Nature Conservancy Colorado Program2009$5,000
Urban School of San Francisco2009$5,200
World Resources Institute2009$400,000
World Resources Institute2009$66,000
World Resources Institute2009$60,000
World Resources Institute2009$10,000
Alliance for Climate Protection2008$10,000,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc2008$7,800,000
California State Protocol Foundation2008$100,000
Clean Air Cool Planet Inc2008$235,000
Clean Air Task Force2008$278,000
Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program2008$170,000
Energy Foundation2008$12,000,000
Energy Foundation2008$12,000,000
Energy Foundation2008$7,100,000
Environmental Defense Fund Inc2008$460,000
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development2008$250,000
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy2008$430,000
International Council on Clean Transportation2008$3,800,000
National Audubon Society2008$325,000
Regulatory Assistance Project2008$110,000
Smart Growth America2008$50,000
University of California Regents2008$110,000
University of Washington2008$89,000
World Resources Institute2008$250,000
Total:$731,740,062

Criticism

India

The government of India blacklisted ClimateWorks in 2014 after that country’s Intelligence Bureau ruled Greenpeace, a ClimateWorks grantee, “a threat to national economic security.” 41 The measure forced ClimateWorks to receive permission from India’s Home Ministry before making additional grants into the country. The government alleged that the anti-mining, anti-drilling, and anti-coal protests that ClimateWorks and other Western environmentalist organizations funded had cost the country up to three percent of its GDP. 42

European Climate Foundation

ClimateWorks grants around $25 million per year to European projects, but it does not disclose the organizations to which it gives. 43 It expanded its activity in Europe after Copenhagen, largely at the behest of its premier European network member, the European Climate Foundation (ECF). 44 The ECF was founded the same year as ClimateWorks; and like ClimateWorks, it acts as a “foundation of foundations,” 45 funneling funds to radical, environmentalist advocacy groups in Europe. 46

Funneling Money

ClimateWorks has also been accused of funneling money to activist groups as a means for liberal billionaires to shield their political donations from taxation by giving to a nonprofit. 47 ClimateWorks funds dozens of state and local environmental activist groups with the funds it receives from the Hewlett and Packard Foundations. 48 In 2014, U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana), the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee released a report that criticized ClimateWorks Foundation, among others, for facilitating tax-deductible political donations for liberal billionaires during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. The report showed that ClimateWorks donated nearly $170 million to the Energy Foundation after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Hewlett and Packard. 49

The report showed that the Energy Foundation later gave $5.7 million to Green Tech, to which ClimateWorks Foundation also gave $1.5 million directly. 50 It also showed that Green Tech donated to several “grassroots” environmentalist organizations on the far left during those years’ election cycles. It argued that the climate “propaganda” that these organizations produced provided an echo chamber for its liberal billionaire donors. 51 Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included many former employees of these activist organizations. 52

Failing Climate Philanthropy

Despite foundations like Hewlett and Packard giving hundreds of millions of dollars toward the effort, many see climate philanthropy as a failing enterprise. Numerous political scientists, including Northeastern University’s Matthew Nisbet and Harvard University Theda Skocpol, blame this on the elitism of the organizations. 53 54

Philanthropy journalist Marc Gunther notes that much of this failure is likely due to the international nature of ClimateWorks’ fund distribution, most of which has been spent outside the U.S. 55

This international aspect became a point of contention between Harvey and ClimateWorks founders. Harvey considered the foundation successful in its early years because of its funding improved technology in Southeast Asia to reduce emissions. The funders, however, became profoundly disappointed with the failure of the Copenhagen Conference and the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a “cap and trade” environmentalist taxation bill, and they wanted more wins that would gain national press attention. 56

In ClimateWorks’ “Lessons in Leadership,” Harvey blamed many of ClimateWorks’ failures on an early misunderstanding about how much control the organization’s funders would have over their donations.

To the funders, noted Harvey, ClimateWorks was like “a bright shiny object.” Although they wanted to sit in on board meetings and help direct strategy, he argued, “too much help is toxic.” 57

Harvey compared the experience negatively to his leadership in the Energy Foundation in the 1990s. 58 However, this formed part of a larger environmentalist philanthropic trend in the early 21st century that the Washington Examiner’s Ron Arnold calls “prescriptive grants.” Funders made out larger grants than they did in the ‘90s, but attached larger strings. 59 Harvey claims the tensions created over this issue “ended the model.” 60

Harvey also said that the founders unrealistically expected $3 billion over five years to meet the foundation’s 30 by 30 goal. However, ClimateWorks failed to raise any additional funds, and managed only to get other organizations to align their funding with it. 61

People

Leadership

Hal Harvey has been an environmentalist foundation official at least since he founded the Energy Foundation in 1991. He worked for the Hewlett Foundation from 2001 to 2008 where he led its energy program, and in 2008, he founded the ClimateWorks Foundation under the auspices of the Hewlett Foundation. He currently leads Energy Innovation, a California-based environmental policy firm. 62

Charlotte Pera is the current president and CEO of ClimateWorks, a position she has held since 2012. Before joining ClimateWorks, she worked as the director of U.S. programs at the Energy Foundation. She advised the European Climate Foundation when it launched in 2008, and she currently serves on its supervisory board. 63

Board of Directors

Susan Tierney is the board chair of ClimateWorks. 64 She currently also sits on the board of the Energy Foundation and is a managing principal for the Boston-based consulting firm the Analysis Group. She worked as the assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Bill Clinton before becoming a consultant in 1995. 65 She has consulted for nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies. 66 She co-directed the Department of Energy team during the transition to the Obama presidency. 67

John Podesta, a longtime Democratic political operative, also serves on the board of ClimateWorks.

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  2. John Podesta
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  3. Susan Tierney
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  • Accounting Period: December - November
  • Tax Exemption Received: February 1, 2009

  • Available Filings

    Period Form Type Total revenue Total functional expenses Total assets (EOY) Total liabilities (EOY) Unrelated business income? Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. of current officers, directors, etc. Form 990
    2020 Dec Form 990 $178,775,280 $110,586,077 $272,486,239 $28,521,430 N $178,443,760 $559,130 $53,021 $3,594,487 PDF
    2019 Dec Form 990 $93,577,498 $88,821,381 $203,699,739 $29,184,940 N $93,251,324 $46,231 $113,771 $3,361,844 PDF
    2018 Dec Form 990 $162,843,468 $94,198,287 $201,420,370 $32,661,688 Y $162,762,191 $0 $81,109 $2,806,072 PDF
    2017 Dec Form 990 $100,104,903 $76,314,661 $118,319,393 $18,195,042 N $100,058,047 $0 $46,856 $2,810,915
    2016 Dec Form 990 $49,823,959 $90,981,941 $86,719,996 $10,451,253 N $49,793,259 $0 $28,900 $2,204,641
    2015 Dec Form 990 $53,886,333 $97,004,698 $138,147,230 $18,795,729 N $53,804,086 $0 $66,465 $1,719,059 PDF
    2014 Dec Form 990 $183,667,221 $144,197,810 $176,533,933 $14,362,590 N $183,612,607 $0 $54,092 $1,653,102 PDF
    2013 Dec Form 990 $77,427,493 $167,901,808 $129,121,350 $6,694,772 N $77,389,600 $0 $37,893 $1,549,203 PDF
    2012 Dec Form 990 $170,391,867 $173,154,225 $219,543,071 $6,898,054 N $170,343,410 $0 $48,457 $2,076,047 PDF
    2011 Dec Form 990 $83,026,313 $156,891,057 $226,452,573 $11,203,757 N $82,837,554 $0 $149,047 $2,951,416 PDF

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