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We previously compiled the top 25 green funders based on 2021 giving data. Today, we round up the next 25 on the list — a wide-ranging set of grantmakers who all gave $10 million or more to environmental causes.
We compiled a list of the top green funders in the U.S., based on the most recent full year of giving data available. One big takeaway: Living billionaires now dominate the list.
For six years now, Green 2.0 has been tracking the diversity of staff at environmental nonprofits and foundations. More are submitting data than ever, but overall participation — and diversity at the top — remain frustratingly low.
Fundraisers in these fields see opportunity and uncertainty, and many organizations are hiring to take advantage. Here are some major shifts they’ve highlighted in the funding landscape.
Here are some of the key philanthropy-supporting organizations that help environmental funders connect and bring new grantmakers into the field.
With summer around the corner, here’s a look at four outdoor companies whose grantmaking helps conserve the world’s lakes, rivers and beaches.
In recent years, Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt have ramped up giving in areas ranging from cutting-edge scientific research to developing young leaders. We unpack their many giving vehicles and philanthropic initiatives.
One year in, participatory grantmaking project Mosaic offers insights into what it looks like when environmental groups direct funding. Leaders point to powerful collaborative projects and new movement infrastructure.
The water challenges the world faces today are increasing, and disproportionately impacting poor communities. Philanthropy to address these threats is increasing, too—but will it be enough?
The shifts needed to adapt our water systems during climate change will require a huge, multi-sector approach. In this guest post, leaders from the Walton Family Foundation and the Water Foundation offer a path forward.
So many Waltons, so much money. Aside from the big foundation, several heirs have their own philanthropies, and they can be hard to keep track of. Here’s a list of 12 Walton family foundations, with brief summaries of their giving.
Global philanthropic giving to ocean conservation issues doubled in the past decade, but still falls woefully short of what’s needed. A new report funded by the Packard Foundation takes a deep dive into the state of marine funding.
Ocean and freshwater funders are focusing on climate change, the social dimensions of water ecosystems and collaborative approaches. Fundraisers have taken heart, but are calling for more resources as crises mount.
The Walton Family Foundation is the best-known philanthropy of America’s richest family. But the clan maintains many other grantmaking funds. Here’s what we know about these third-generation heirs’ low-profile foundations.
Even as the pandemic briefly curtailed carbon emissions, it only accelerated the threat that plastic waste poses to the planet. Here’s how several philanthropic funders are confronting a global problem.
A new alliance of nonprofits and funders wants to conserve an area of the world’s oceans totaling the size of South America over the next five years. It’s the latest in a series of philanthropic efforts to expand ocean conservation.
The United States is facing a water infrastructure crisis. In this guest contribution, the leaders of three water grantmakers call on philanthropy to do more, and offer four ways funders can help.
Half of reefs have been lost in the last 30 years. Scientists say we could lose 90% of the rest in the next 30 years. A new philanthropic effort launched last month is taking an unusual approach to stopping this unthinkable extinction.
The Benioff Ocean Initiative just launched a $1.5 million project that uses sensors and data analysis to prevent fatal collisions between whales and shipping vessels. It’s the product of a crowdsourced effort to identify funding priorities.
Months of shutdowns have put zoos and aquariums deep in the red. But these shortfalls haven’t derailed major capital projects that expand aquariums, institutions that appeal to donors for multiple reasons.
The charitable venture of the two richest men in China and an ocean exploration nonprofit backed by Ray Dalio just formed a new partnership. It could presage far greater funding to come from China’s philanthropists.
COVID-19 has shown us how fragile and inequitable our systems are—and how they all intersect. Water Foundation CEO Allison Harvey Turner says it’s time to align our work on clean water, climate change, public health, and more.
Climate change is exacerbating water scarcity and quality problems, and drought-prone California is right on the frontlines. The S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation enlisted five community foundations to make its water funding more locally relevant.
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies keeps a low profile, but it’s one of the key U.S. foundations racing to defend endangered marine ecosystems worldwide—including the vast and biologically diverse seas of Indonesia.
With the U.N. warning that the oceans may soon contain more plastic than fish, foundations and nonprofits are looking upstream for solutions—most recently with a new $11 million initiative to curb plastic waste in nine rivers worldwide.
With pollution growing, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has been fighting an uphill battle for years. But loyal donors and diversified revenue sources have made it a fundraising powerhouse. We look inside its development operation.
Leading philanthropists from finance have given more than $2 billion to environmental causes in recent years, transforming this funding landscape. We analyze the giving of these donors, looking at who’s giving to which organizations.
As experts across sectors scramble to conserve ocean ecosystems and fish populations, more nations and organizations are using marine spatial planning. The Waitt Foundation is a leading supporter of this critical work.
The world’s oceans and the myriad communities that depend on them face devastating harm from climate change, overfishing and pollution. Here’s an inside look at how Bloomberg Philanthropies is responding.
As he ends a 20-year stint leading the Russell Family Foundation, Richard Woo leaves behind an institution that learned to listen closely to front-line communities and fully embrace impact investing. What does that look like in practice?