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Overview

Funders and Grantees

Funding From Foundations
& Corporations

Total Donated

Time Frame
Pew Charitable Trusts $11,568,000.00 1991 – 2000
Energy Foundation $8,507,600.00 1991 – 2001
Blue Moon Fund $8,419,735.00 1988 – 2003
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $6,588,195.00 1988 – 2001
Public Welfare Foundation $4,700,000.00 1990 – 2003
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $4,681,097.00 1996 – 2001
Turner Foundation $4,126,542.00 1993 – 2002
Joyce Foundation $3,529,445.00 1989 – 2005
Marisla Foundation $3,238,000.00 1991 – 2004
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $3,023,090.00 1989 – 2002
San Francisco Foundation $2,747,739.00 1990 – 2001
Ford Foundation $2,733,300.00 1989 – 1998
Beinecke Foundation $2,150,000.00 1988 – 2000
J. M. Kaplan Fund $2,132,500.00 1988 – 2004
William Bingham Foundation $2,045,000.00 1987 – 2001
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation $1,925,000.00 1990 – 2005
Park Foundation $1,807,010.00 1997 – 2003
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation $1,561,000.00 1988 – 2002
Bauman Family Foundation $1,526,000.00 1997 – 2002
Educational Foundation of America $1,470,000.00 1990 – 2003
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $1,377,510.00 1991 – 2001
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation $1,370,000.00 1990 – 2003
McKnight Foundation $1,365,500.00 1996 – 2002
Overbrook Foundation $1,282,585.00 1989 – 2002
Bullitt Foundation $1,232,675.00 1992 – 2002
Nathan Cummings Foundation $1,220,000.00 1990 – 1999
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund $1,205,000.00 1993 – 2001
Mertz Gilmore Foundation $1,201,000.00 1988 – 1998
Carnegie Corporation of New York $1,200,000.00 1989 – 1995
New York Community Trust $1,186,821.00 1990 – 2001
Surdna Foundation $1,147,000.00 1989 – 2001
David Family Foundation $1,051,448.00 1998 – 2005
John Merck Fund $998,000.00 1989 – 2002
Charles Engelhard Foundation $974,000.00 1989 – 2000
Columbia Foundation $966,500.00 1988 – 2001
Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation $900,000.00 1988 – 2002
Moriah Fund $895,000.00 1991 – 2002
Horn Foundation $836,074.00 1999 – 2002
Scherman Foundation $832,500.00 1988 – 2002
Prospect Hill Foundation $831,000.00 1988 – 2001
Clark Foundation $830,000.00 1989 – 2000
Edward John Noble Foundation $775,000.00 1975 – 2000
David & Lucile Packard Foundation $769,000.00 1988 – 2001
Vervane, Inc. $697,000.00 1994 – 2001
Wallace Genetic Foundation $665,000.00 1988 – 2001
ARIA Foundation $656,116.00 1996 – 2000
George Gund Foundation $637,100.00 1990 – 2000
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation $635,000.00 1990 – 2002
Ploughshares Fund $628,800.00 1987 – 2002
Alaska Conservation Foundation $596,000.00 1993 – 2002
Trust for Mutual Understanding $575,000.00 1989 – 1996
Beldon Fund $530,000.00 1991 – 2000
Proteus Fund $525,000.00 2001 – 2002
U.S. Department of Energy $522,934.00 1997 – 2000
Marion O. & Maximilian E. Hoffman Foundation $515,000.00 1996 – 2000
Florence Fund $506,500.00 2002 – 2002
Resources Legacy Fund Foundation $500,000.00 2002 – 2002
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation $487,500.00 1998 – 1998
Epstein/Roth Foundation $485,000.00 2000 – 2002
Environment Now Foundation $472,500.00 1998 – 2002
J. E. & Z. B. Butler Foundation $460,000.00 1991 – 2002
Starr Foundation $450,000.00 1991 – 1999
Compton Foundation $448,500.00 1990 – 2001
Leonardo DiCaprio Charitable Foundation $419,050.00 2000 – 2005
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust $410,000.00 1990 – 2002
Victoria Foundation $395,000.00 1988 – 2002
Henry Luce Foundation $390,000.00 2001 – 2002
American Conservation Association $380,000.00 1989 – 2001
Favrot Fund $380,000.00 1998 – 2002
Atlantic Foundation of New York $375,000.00 2001 – 2001
Carolyn Foundation $362,000.00 1971 – 2001
Bernard F. & Alva B. Gimbel Foundation $360,000.00 1996 – 2002
Marin Community Foundation $350,400.00 1991 – 2001
Gaia Fund $342,550.00 1998 – 2002
Irene Diamond Fund $325,000.00 1988 – 1993
Town Creek Foundation $305,000.00 1988 – 2001
Kresge Foundation $300,000.00 1990 – 1990
Rockefeller Foundation $285,075.00 1989 – 1999
F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation $275,000.00 2000 – 2001
San Diego Foundation $266,000.00 1999 – 2002
Schumann Center for Media & Democracy $255,000.00 1988 – 1992
Wallace Global Fund $250,000.00 1997 – 2001
H. van Ameringen Foundation $245,000.00 1995 – 2002
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole $240,000.00 1998 – 2000
Harold K. Hochschild Foundation $235,000.00 1990 – 2002
Gap Foundation $234,707.00 1992 – 2001
Wunderkinder Foundation $220,000.00 1994 – 1997
Northwest Area Foundation $210,000.00 1989 – 1989
Funding Exchange $200,000.00 1997 – 1999
Harold K. L. Castle Foundation $200,000.00 1992 – 1994
Mary Anderson Trust $200,000.00 1998 – 1998
Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust $199,669.00 1997 – 2002
Pond Foundation $198,000.00 1998 – 2001
Ludington, Inc. $195,000.00 1999 – 2002
Jenifer Altman Foundation $185,000.00 1994 – 1999
Korsant Charitable Foundation $179,485.00 1997 – 2002
James Irvine Foundation $175,000.00 1991 – 1996
Richard King Mellon Foundation $175,000.00 1993 – 1995
S. H. Cowell Foundation $160,000.00 1992 – 1996
David Geffen Foundation $147,200.00 1994 – 2002
Larsen Fund $145,000.00 1990 – 2001
Cissy Patterson Foundation $132,500.00 2000 – 2002
Malkin Fund $132,250.00 1998 – 2002
Moore Charitable Foundation $130,500.00 1998 – 2001
Citigroup Foundation $130,000.00 1997 – 2000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors $127,000.00 1997 – 2001
Beatrice R. & Joseph A. Coleman Foundation $126,000.00 1999 – 2002
David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation $125,000.00 1998 – 2002
Kyodai Foundation $125,000.00 1998 – 2002
Garfield Foundation $125,000.00 2001 – 2001
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation $120,000.00 1989 – 1991
Orchard Foundation $118,000.00 1998 – 2002
Ittleson Foundation $116,000.00 1994 – 2004
Henry & Lucy Moses Fund $115,000.00 1994 – 1999
Lear Family Foundation $112,500.00 1998 – 2004
Rockefeller Family Fund $110,000.00 1989 – 1999
David H. Smith Foundation $110,000.00 1999 – 1999
Virginia Environmental Endowment $105,000.00 1988 – 1992
Mary A. Crocker Trust $105,000.00 1994 – 2000
Jena & Michael King Foundation $103,933.00 2002 – 2004
McIntosh Foundation $102,000.00 1992 – 1999
Sussman Family Foundation $100,045.00 1998 – 2002
Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation $100,000.00 1997 – 2000
Flora Family Foundation $100,000.00 2000 – 2000
Howard Phipps Foundation $100,000.00 1992 – 2001
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation $100,000.00 2000 – 2000
Steele-Reese Foundation $100,000.00 1988 – 1988
Tinker Foundation $100,000.00 1992 – 1992
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation $100,000.00 2001 – 2001
Women’s Project Foundation $100,000.00 1999 – 1999
Westwind Foundation $100,000.00 2001 – 2002
Panaphil Foundation $100,000.00 1998 – 2000
Robert Stewart Odell & Helen Pfeiffer Odell Fund $99,000.00 1994 – 2002
Lagemann Foundation $95,000.00 1998 – 2002
Winston Foundation for World Peace $93,000.00 1989 – 1998
Chartwell Foundation $90,000.00 1995 – 1999
Gilbert B. Friesen Foundation $88,280.00 1998 – 2004
Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Foundation $86,814.00 1998 – 1998
Thomas D. Hormel Trust $86,000.00 2000 – 2000
W.K. Kellogg Foundation $85,934.00 1996 – 1997
Elizabeth Ordway Dunn Foundation $85,000.00 1999 – 2001
Boston Foundation $80,250.00 1996 – 2002
Regina Bauer-Frankenberg Foundation $80,000.00 1998 – 2002
Wellspring Foundation $80,000.00 2000 – 2001
Fred Gellert Family Foundation $77,000.00 1996 – 2000
California Community Foundation $76,233.00 1990 – 2001
Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation $75,000.00 2000 – 2001
Ametek Foundation $75,000.00 1988 – 2002
Steven & Michele Kirsch Foundation $75,000.00 1999 – 2001
Lloyd J. Schumacker Fund $75,000.00 1999 – 1999
Tosa Foundation $75,000.00 1998 – 2001
Quixote Foundation $75,000.00 1999 – 2002
Prentice Foundation $70,500.00 2000 – 2002
Beneficia Foundation $70,000.00 1999 – 2002
Firedoll Foundation $70,000.00 2000 – 2002
Norcross Wildlife Foundation $68,400.00 1998 – 2002
Weeden Foundation $67,000.00 1991 – 2001
Thomas J. Watson Foundation $66,000.00 1998 – 1999
Robert A. & Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation $65,800.00 1998 – 2001
Shifting Foundation $65,000.00 1998 – 2002
German Marshall Fund of the U.S. $65,000.00 1993 – 1995
Barbra Streisand Foundation $65,000.00 1998 – 2002
Focus Foundation $63,500.00 1998 – 2002
Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust $62,000.00 2000 – 2002
Komie Foundation $61,620.00 2002 – 2002
W.L. Lyons Brown Foundation $60,000.00 1998 – 2002
D & DF Foundation $60,000.00 1997 – 2001
Mabel Pew Myrin Trust $60,000.00 1998 – 1998
Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation $60,000.00 2000 – 2002
McGrath Investment Foundation $57,362.00 1998 – 2000
Hyde & Watson Foundation $55,000.00 1988 – 1993
Atherton Family Foundation $55,000.00 1989 – 1991
Lynn R. & Karl E. Prickett Fund $54,460.00 1999 – 2001
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $53,500.00 2000 – 2002
JNT Foundation $53,000.00 1999 – 2001
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation $50,000.00 1996 – 1996
Armand G. Erpf Fund $50,000.00 1998 – 2002
Good Samaritan, Inc. $50,000.00 1999 – 2001
Merlin Foundation $50,000.00 1997 – 2002
Merck Family Fund $50,000.00 2003 – 2003
Global Environment Project Institute $50,000.00 2001 – 2001
Sarah K. de Coizart Perpetual Charitable Trust $50,000.00 2002 – 2002
Peninsula Community Foundation $49,450.00 1997 – 2001
McGrath Family Foundation $48,129.00 2001 – 2001
Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation $47,500.00 1998 – 2002
Community Foundation for the Nat'l Capital Region $47,240.00 1997 – 2002
Lostand Foundation $46,100.00 1997 – 2000
Wilburforce Foundation $45,000.00 2002 – 2002
Shared Earth Foundation $45,000.00 2002 – 2002
Helena Rubinstein Foundation $45,000.00 1995 – 1998
Lily Auchincloss Foundation $45,000.00 1998 – 2002
Peter R. Gimbel & Elga A. Gimbel Memorial Trust $45,000.00 1998 – 2002
Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation $43,000.00 1998 – 2002
People of the Earth Foundation $42,500.00 1997 – 2000
Community Foundation Silicon Valley $40,900.00 1993 – 2000
Norman Foundation $40,000.00 1990 – 1991
Leslie & Walter Burlock Foundation $40,000.00 1997 – 2001
Ploughshares Foundation $40,000.00 2001 – 2001
Cleveland Foundation $40,000.00 1992 – 1993
Echoing Green Foundation $40,000.00 1991 – 1991
Wasserman Foundation $40,000.00 1997 – 2002
Whitehead Foundation $40,000.00 1996 – 2000
New-Land Foundation $39,300.00 1999 – 1999
Entertainment Industry Foundation $37,500.00 1999 – 2002
Full Circle Foundation $37,000.00 2000 – 2002
John & Daniel Tishman Fund $35,000.00 2000 – 2001
Cadeau Foundation $35,000.00 2000 – 2001
Jamie A. & Steven E. Tisch Foundation $34,180.00 2002 – 2004
Lemmon Foundation $31,500.00 1999 – 2001
Fiduciary Charitable Foundation $31,000.00 2000 – 2002
Louis & Harold Price Foundation $30,000.00 2002 – 2002
Charles Henry Leach II Foundation $30,000.00 1998 – 2000
Wendy P. McCaw Foundation $30,000.00 2002 – 2002
Fund for the City of New York $30,000.00 1990 – 1993
Hawaii Community Foundation $30,000.00 1991 – 1991
Abe & Frances Lastfogel Foundation $29,080.00 1999 – 2003
Biedenharn Foundation $29,000.00 1997 – 2002
Joelson Foundation $28,650.00 1998 – 2001
Mary Livingston Griggs & Mary Griggs Burke Foundat $28,000.00 1998 – 2001
Powers-Wolfe Charitable Trust $27,500.00 1997 – 2001
Edwards Mother Earth Foundation $27,000.00 1999 – 2002
Ecotrust Foundation $26,000.00 1998 – 2002
Hall Charitable Trust $25,540.00 2000 – 2001
William C. Bannerman Foundation $25,000.00 2000 – 2001
Charles A. Dana Foundation $25,000.00 2001 – 2001
Rose Community Foundation $25,000.00 2001 – 2001
Pinewood Foundation $25,000.00 1998 – 2001
John M. Hopwood Charitable Trust $25,000.00 1998 – 1998
General Service Foundation $25,000.00 2000 – 2000
Sandpiper Fund $25,000.00 1998 – 2002
Summit Charitable Foundation $23,000.00 1997 – 2000
Greenville Foundation $22,000.00 1993 – 2002
Swig Foundation $21,000.00 1998 – 2002
Ripple Foundation $21,000.00 2001 – 2001
C.J.L. Charitable Foundation $20,500.00 1997 – 2001
George B. & Willa Mae Whatley Charitable Trust $20,000.00 1998 – 1998
Jacob Bleibtreu Foundation $20,000.00 1999 – 2000
Gordon & Llura Gund Foundation $20,000.00 1999 – 2002
Evergreen Charitable Fund $20,000.00 2000 – 2002
One World Fund $20,000.00 1998 – 1999
Goldman Environmental Foundation $20,000.00 1998 – 2002
Harder Foundation $20,000.00 2002 – 2002
Barbara Delano Foundation $20,000.00 1998 – 1998
Lazar Foundation $20,000.00 2004 – 2004
Ruth Mott Foundation $20,000.00 1993 – 1993
Brainerd Foundation $20,000.00 1998 – 1998
S. H. & Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation $20,000.00 1999 – 2000
Overhills Foundation $20,000.00 2000 – 2000
Sustainable Solutions Foundation $20,000.00 2000 – 2000
Whatley Charitable Trust $20,000.00 1998 – 1998
Saul Z. & Amy Scheuer Cohen Family Foundation $19,600.00 1992 – 1992
H.W. Buckner Charitable Residuary Trust $19,278.00 1992 – 1992
Laurence D. Belfer Family Foundation $18,800.00 2000 – 2002
Thomas Foundation $18,500.00 1998 – 2002
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust $18,000.00 1997 – 2002
Joyce Green Family Foundation $17,500.00 1999 – 2002
Robert F. & Marilyn H. Schumann Foundation $17,000.00 1997 – 2000
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation $16,575.00 1995 – 1995
Baird Foundation $15,874.00 1999 – 2001
Eugene M. Adler Family Fund $15,150.00 1996 – 1999
Memton Fund $15,000.00 2000 – 2002
Vanguard Public Foundation $15,000.00 1997 – 2001
Annenberg Foundation $15,000.00 2002 – 2002
Arca Foundation $15,000.00 1992 – 1992
Foundation for Deep Ecology $15,000.00 1993 – 1993
Thomas Phillips & Jane Moore Johnson Foundation $15,000.00 2000 – 2002
George H. Scanlon Foundation $15,000.00 2004 – 2005
Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund $14,500.00 1998 – 2002
Hurdle Hill Foundation $14,000.00 1998 – 2002
Fuller Foundation $14,000.00 1999 – 2000
Golden Family Foundation $12,840.00 1998 – 2002
Monterey Fund $12,650.00 1998 – 2002
Woodcock Foundation $12,500.00 1996 – 1999
Dean Witter Foundation $12,500.00 1989 – 1989
Rose Foundation for Communities & the Environment $12,300.00 1996 – 2000
Arkay Foundation $11,500.00 1999 – 2001
New York Times Company Foundation $11,434.00 1996 – 2000
Westport Fund $11,000.00 1998 – 2001
Bishop Pine Fund $11,000.00 1998 – 2001
Joseph Rosen Foundation $10,725.00 1998 – 2001
Silverweed Foundation $10,600.00 2002 – 2002
Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation $10,500.00 2000 – 2001
Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation $10,000.00 2000 – 2000
Rauner Family Foundation $10,000.00 1999 – 2000
Edith W. MacGuire Charitable Trust $10,000.00 2001 – 2005
Makray Family Foundation $10,000.00 2002 – 2002
Henry Foundation $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Walter & Josephine Ford Fund $10,000.00 2001 – 2001
Vinmont Foundation $10,000.00 1999 – 2001
Cooke Foundation Limited $10,000.00 1990 – 1990
Frelinghuysen Foundation $10,000.00 1998 – 2001
AT&T Foundation $10,000.00 1990 – 1990
Moss Foundation $10,000.00 2000 – 2002
William Randolph Hearst Foundations $10,000.00 1993 – 1993
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation $10,000.00 1994 – 1994
Leighty Foundation $9,750.00 1998 – 2002
Ettinger Foundation $9,500.00 1998 – 2000
William Talbott Hillman Foundation $9,500.00 1998 – 2001
Clemens Family Foundation $9,000.00 1998 – 2001
Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust $8,750.00 1998 – 2002
Whole Systems Foundation $8,000.00 1999 – 2000
Schiff Foundation $8,000.00 2000 – 2001
Allequash Foundation $7,000.00 1998 – 2002
Hahn Family Foundation $7,000.00 1998 – 2002
Grace Jones Richardson Trust $6,500.00 1998 – 2002
Triangle Community Foundation $6,033.00 1997 – 2001
Alix Brotman Foundation $6,000.00 2000 – 2000
Alexander H. Bright Charitable Trust $6,000.00 1998 – 2001
Heinz Family Foundation $6,000.00 2001 – 2001
J. P. Morgan Charitable Trust $6,000.00 1988 – 1988
New Horizon Foundation $6,000.00 1997 – 2001
Abe Wouk Foundation $6,000.00 2000 – 2002
Bear Gulch Foundation $5,500.00 1998 – 2002
Szekely Family Foundation $5,210.00 1998 – 2002
Gilder Foundation $5,000.00 1999 – 1999
Laura Jane Musser Fund $5,000.00 2002 – 2002
Brokaw Family Foundation $5,000.00 2000 – 2000
Mailman Foundation $5,000.00 2000 – 2000
May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation $5,000.00 1998 – 1998
Lawrence Foundation $5,000.00 2003 – 2003
Kris & Kathy Heinzelman Foundation $5,000.00 2001 – 2001
James & Judith K. Dimon Foundation $5,000.00 1999 – 1999
Daniel & Joanna S. Rose Fund $5,000.00 2000 – 2000
Thomas H. & Donna M. Stone Foundation $5,000.00 1997 – 1999
Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation $5,000.00 2001 – 2001
Funding From Other
Activist Groups

Total Donated

Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center
$488,004.00 1991 – 2003
National Audubon Society
$140,050.00 1999 – 2001
National Environmental Trust
$100,000.00 2000 – 2000
SeaWeb
$77,000.00 2001 – 2001
Environmental Defense
$10,000.00 1999 – 1999


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