The Dudley Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization founded by the late Gerric “Rick” Dudley, the son Franklin Roosevelt administration official and longtime left-of-center activist Tilford Dudley. ^{1 2 3 4} It largely funds environmental activist organizations, organizations that promote population control, and various other left-wing groups. ^{5 6}

Supported Organizations

Environmental Organizations

The Dudley Foundation supports several environmentalist activist organizations that promote dramatic changes to human society. These organizations include the Global Greengrants Fund ($32,500 in 2022), Protect our Winters ($16,500 in 2022), Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ($8,000 in 2022), the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ($14,000 in 2022), and Green America ($14,500 in 2022). ⁷

Population Control Organizations

The Dudley Foundation has supported a variety of left-of-center organizations that advocate for population control due to predictions of catastrophic environmental disaster. ⁸

Population Balance is a left-of-center activist organization that promotes a decrease of the human population, the replacement of human primacy with “ecocentrism,” and “social justice” to correct perceived injustices that it attributes to the drive for economic growth. To that end, its slogan is “shrink towards abundance.” ⁹ In 2022 it received $9,500 from the Dudley Foundation. ¹⁰

Population Connection, formerly known as Zero Population Growth, is another left-of-center activist organization that promotes a decrease in the human population. The organization promotes abortion access, contraception, and environmental controls in the United States and around the world. The foundation provided a grant of $11,500 in 2022. ¹¹

In 2022, the foundation also provided $8,500 to Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood, a Washington state-based Planned Parenthood affiliate that provides abortion and birth control in the Bellingham area. ¹²

Left-of-Center Organizations

In addition to donations to environmental- and population-control-focused groups, the Dudley Foundation supports other left-leaning groups, including Corporate Accountability International ($15,500 in 2022), OxFam America ($11,000 in 2022), The Union of Concerned Scientists ($12,500 in 2022), FairVote ($20,500 in 2022), and the Move to Amend Education Fund ($7,500 in 2022). ¹³

Leadership

Gerric “Rick” Dudley was the founder and former president of the Dudley Foundation. He was a left-wing activist who supported numerous causes ranging from environmental issues, population control, anti-capitalism, and pro-Palestinian activism. His father, Tilford E. Dudley, was an official in the Franklin Roosevelt administration and later went on to become a prominent union organizer and official and the chairman of the Washington, D.C. Democratic Central Committee. His mother, Martha Ward Dudley, was also a left-wing activist. ^{14 15 16 17}

Financials

In fiscal year 2022 The Dudley Foundation reported $226,452 in revenue, of which $111,406 was derived from dividends and interest and $114,936 from the sale of assets. It reported $363,397 in expenses, of which $334,817 was disbursed as grants. It ended the year with a net loss of $136,945 and net assets of $3,286,038. ¹⁸

1. “Gerric Dudley Obituary (1943 – 2023) – Bellingham, WA – Bellingham Herald.” Legacy.com, July 16, 2023. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bellinghamherald/name/gerric-dudley-obituary?id=52437901.
2. Deparle, Jason. “Tilford E. Dudley, 82, Dies; New Deal Labor Aide.” The New York Times, January 22, 1990, sec. Obituaries. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/22/obituaries/tilford-e-dudley-82-dies-new-deal-labor-aide.html.
3. Washington Post. “Martha Ward Dudley, 76, Political Activist, Writer, Dies.” November 24, 1985. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/11/25/obituaries/9db529b2-d662-46d8-970b-d182d426b349/.
4. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022
5. “Gerric Dudley Obituary (1943 – 2023).” Legacy.com, July 16, 2023. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bellinghamherald/name/gerric-dudley-obituary?id=52437901.
6. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
7. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
8. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
9. Population Balance. “Our Philosophy.” Population Balance. Accessed March 31, 2024. https://www.populationbalance.org/our-philosophy.
10. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
11. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022
12. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
13. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
14. “Gerric Dudley Obituary (1943 – 2023) – Bellingham, WA – Bellingham Herald.” Legacy.com, July 16, 2023. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bellinghamherald/name/gerric-dudley-obituary?id=52437901.
15. Deparle, Jason. “Tilford E. Dudley, 82, Dies; New Deal Labor Aide.” The New York Times, January 22, 1990, sec. Obituaries. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/22/obituaries/tilford-e-dudley-82-dies-new-deal-labor-aide.html.
16. Washington Post. “Martha Ward Dudley, 76, Political Activist, Writer, Dies.” November 24, 1985. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1985/11/25/obituaries/9db529b2-d662-46d8-970b-d182d426b349/.
17. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part XIV, 2022.
18. The Dudley Foundation, Return of an organization exempt from taxation (Form 990PF) Part I, 2022.