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Surdna Foundation


Finances

for tax year ending 6/30/2002

Total Assets$602,254,356.00 
Grants Awarded$0.00 


Officers and Other Supporters

NamePosition
Elizabeth H. Andrus   Chairman & Treasurer
John E. Andrus III  Chairman Emeritus
Peter B. Benedict   Board Member
Hooper L. Brooks   Program Director
Christopher F. Davenport   Vice Chairman
Marc de Venoge   Chief Financial Officer
Lawrence S.C. Griffith   Board Member
John F. Hawkins   Board Member
Sandra T. Kaupe   Board Member
John J. Lynagh   Secretary
Dick Mark   Paid Consultant
Frederick F. Moon III  Treasurer
Ellen B. Rudolph   Program Officer
Carey Shea   Program Officer
Robert Sherman   Program Officer
Edward Skloot   Executive Director
Vincent Stehle   Program Officer
Edith D. Thorpe   Board Member
Samuel S. Thorpe III  Board Member


Top Grants Made

Funding To Activist GroupsTotal DonatedTime Frame
Environmental Defense $1,300,000.00 1990 – 2000
Redefining Progress $1,205,000.00 1995 – 2001
Oceana $1,200,000.00 2001 – 2005
Natural Resources Defense Council $1,147,000.00 1989 – 2001
National Audubon Society $1,075,000.00 1993 – 1999
Worldwatch Institute $1,055,000.00 1989 – 2001
Ocean Conservancy $1,043,000.00 1991 – 1999
National Religious Partnership for the Environment $833,336.00 1993 – 2001
Tides Foundation & Tides Center $820,000.00 1993 – 2001
World Resources Institute $700,000.00 1989 – 2000
Consumers Union of the United States $680,000.00 1998 – 2001
Rocky Mountain Institute $660,000.00 1992 – 1996
Earth Day Network $600,000.00 1998 – 1999
Sierra Club $600,000.00 1990 – 1996
ACORN $550,000.00 1993 – 2001
American Farmland Trust $503,500.00 1997 – 2001
Environmental Support Center $500,000.00 1989 – 2001
Friends of the Earth $480,000.00 1993 – 1997
Center for a New American Dream $450,000.00 1997 – 2001
Rainforest Alliance $450,000.00 1995 – 2001
Environmental Media Services $450,000.00 1995 – 2001
Environmental Working Group $445,000.00 1989 – 1997
Wilderness Society $394,000.00 1990 – 1993
Earth Action Network $345,000.00 1990 – 1995
Consumer's Choice Council $300,000.00 2000 – 2001
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities $300,000.00 1993 – 1995
Public Citizen $300,000.00 1998 – 2001
Earthjustice $300,000.00 1995 – 1996
World Wildlife Fund $275,000.00 1992 – 2001
American Oceans Campaign $265,000.00 1998 – 2001
INFORM $262,000.00 1991 – 1994
Earth Island Institute $195,000.00 1995 – 1998
Green Seal $190,000.00 1992 – 1993
Izaak Walton League of America $180,000.00 1992 – 1995
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $177,000.00 1989 – 2001
Southern Environmental Law Center $175,000.00 1996 – 2001
Sustainable Northwest $160,000.00 2000 – 2001
Center for Resource Economics $150,000.00 1993 – 1993
Union of Concerned Scientists $150,000.00 1996 – 1998
A SEED $125,000.00 1989 – 1989
National Wildlife Federation $100,000.00 1994 – 1995
Defenders of Animal Rights $100,000.00 1996 – 1996
Center for Public Interest Research $100,000.00 2001 – 2001
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy $100,000.00 2001 – 2001
Oregon Natural Resources Council $90,000.00 1993 – 2000
National Environmental Trust $75,000.00 2001 – 2001
Advocacy Institute $65,000.00 1998 – 1998
New America Foundation $60,000.00 1999 – 2000
Northwest Environment Watch $50,000.00 1995 – 1995
Resource Renewal Institute $50,000.00 2001 – 2001
Global Action Plan for the Earth $40,000.00 1995 – 1995
Center for Health, Environment and Justice $20,000.00 1994 – 1994


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