Louisiana Against False Solutions (LAFS)

Background

Louisiana Against False Solutions was formed as a multi-organization coalition to coordinate opposition to energy infrastructure development in Louisiana, with a particular focus on blocking carbon capture and sequestration projects and related industrial projects. The coalition is structured as a fiscally sponsored project of the Foundation for Louisiana, meaning it does not independently file Internal Revenue Service tax returns and its finances are not publicly disclosed separately from the foundation. ^{3 2}

The coalition’s website solicits donations through a Give Lively fundraising page directed to the Foundation for Louisiana. Because LAFS does not have independent nonprofit status, the full scope of its revenues and expenditures is not available through standard public disclosure mechanisms. ⁴

Activities

Louisiana Against False Solutions coordinates lobbying, public communications, and legislative testimony among its member organizations, with a focus on opposing carbon capture and sequestration infrastructure in Louisiana. The coalition has organized events at the Louisiana State Capitol, including a “Protect Our Parishes – Stop Carbon Capture” lobbying day at which participants testified in legislative committee hearings and met with state legislators. ^{5 3}

Member organizations of LAFS have participated in joint events with national environmental groups including Break Free From Plastic and the Center for International Environmental Law. The Sierra Club‘s Louisiana chapter lists LAFS as one of its affiliated member coalitions. ^{3 6}

Funding

Because Louisiana Against False Solutions is a fiscally sponsored project rather than an independent nonprofit, its funding flows primarily through its sponsor, the Foundation for Louisiana. A 2026 analysis by the right-of-center Pelican Institute for Public Policy, which reviewed Foundation Directory and ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer data, examined the funding received by the 12 Louisiana-based member organizations of LAFS. ²

According to that analysis, LAFS member organizations collectively received at least $117.5 million between 2020 and 2025, with approximately 98 percent of that total, $115.4 million, originating from donors outside Louisiana. The three largest geographic sources were California, Washington, D.C., and New York City, together accounting for more than 70 percent of total identified donations. ²

The largest identified funders of LAFS member organizations from 2020 to 2025 were the Waverley Street Foundation ($15,300,000), the Windward Fund ($9,871,000), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($8,065,472), the Freedom Together Foundation ($6,550,000), the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation ($6,529,523), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation ($5,691,866), the United States Energy Foundation ($4,892,850), the Bezos Earth Fund ($4,000,000), the Kresge Foundation ($3,827,000), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($3,746,000), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors ($1,907,767), the Ford Foundation ($1,275,000), the Rockefeller Family Fund ($1,176,000), the Bloomberg Family Foundation ($1,000,000), and the Tides Foundation ($715,500). ²

Member Organizations

Louisiana Against False Solutions’ coalition membership, as listed on its website and in the Pelican Institute’s 2026 analysis, included the Alliance for Affordable Energy, No Waste Louisiana, Taproot Earth (formerly Louisiana for a Green New Deal), the Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition, Healthy Gulf (formerly Gulf Restoration Network), the Center for International Environmental Law, the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance, the Sierra Club Delta Chapter, 350 New Orleans, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, the Foundation for Louisiana, Earthworks, the Climate Reality Project, Rise St. James, the Center for Progressive Reform, and Inclusive Louisiana. ²