The following is an informational list of invitation-only philanthropies which provide climate finance. Browse philanthropies alphabetically or search by sectoral and thematic focus (when applicable). Click on the links below to learn more about individual organizations:
Alcoa Foundation - Energy
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Energy, Industry and Infrastructure, Transportation
Arcadia Fund - Oceans and Coasts
Bezos Earth Fund - Agriculture, Energy, Industry and Infrastructure, Transportation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Agriculture, Water
Bloomberg Philanthropies - Cities, Education, Energy, Health, Oceans and Coasts
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation - Finance, Water
Children's Investment Fund Foundation - Agriculture, Cities, Education, Energy, FOLU, Industry and Infrastructure, Youth
Christensen Fund
Clara Lionel Foundation - Disaster risk reduction, Health
ClimateWorks Foundation - Agriculture, Finance, FOLU, Infrastructure and Industry
Clinton Foundation - Agriculture, Disaster risk reduction, Education, Energy, Youth
Dangote Foundation - Agriculture, Disaster risk reduction, Education, Health
Donner Canada Foundation - Education, Health, Oceans and Coasts
Dropbox Foundation
Eaglemere Foundation - Health
Emerson Collective - Education, Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
Fedex Cares - Disaster risk reduction, Energy, Gender, Health, Transportation
Flora Family Foundation - Energy, Oceans and coasts
Flora Thornton Foundation - Gender, Health, Oceans and coasts, Water
Frederick Mulder Foundation - Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
Give2Asia - Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, Education, Youth
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation - FOLU, Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services, Oceans and Coasts
Gratham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment - Energy, Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
Halloran Philanthropies
Hesing-Simons Foundation - Education, Energy
IKEA Foundation - Agriculture, Energy, Jobs
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Energy
KR Foundation - Energy, Youth
Libra Foundation - Gender
Madre - Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender, Youth
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies - Disaster risk reduction, Education, FOLU, Oceans and Coasts, Water
Max and Anna Levinson Foundation - Energy, FOLU
Mize Family Foundation - Gender, Youth
Nathan Cummings Foundation
New World Foundation - Agriculture, Education, Energy
Overbrook Foundation - Energy, FOLU, Oceans and Coasts
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation - FOLU, Oceans and Coasts
Rob & Melani Walton Foundation - FOLU, Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services, Oceans and Coasts
Rockefeller Family Fund - FOLU, Oceans and Coasts
Rockefeller Foundation - Agriculture, Energy, Health, Jobs
Sea Change Foundation - Energy, Transportation
Sequoia Climate Foundation - Energy
Skoll Foundation - Economic Recovery, Health
Solidago Foundation - Energy, Jobs
Summit Foundation - Cities, Education, Gender, Health, Oceans and Coasts
Thousand Currents Foundation
Threshold Foundation - FOLU, Health
Tomkat Foundation - Agriculture, Energy
Trafigura Foundation - Agriculture, Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
UBS Optimus Foundation - Energy, FOLU
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation - Energy
Wallace Genetic Foundation - Agriculture, Water
Wallace Global Fund - Energy, Gender
Waverley Street Foundation - Agriculture, Energy
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - Education, Energy
Zegar Family Foundation - Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health
Zoom Foundation - Education
These philanthropies do not accept unsolicited applications. Eligibility is only granted by invitation from one of these organizations.
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