Wallace Genetic Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace Genetic Foundation supports land and water conservation across the United States and beyond, with a particular interest in conserving farmland and natural resoruces, as well as...
View ArticleWalt Disney Company: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Disney’s cash giving has been steadily increasing along with the company’s profits, and the environment is one of the main priorities of the company’s corporate citizenship program, including...
View ArticleWalton Family Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Walton mainly funds marine and river conservation, but it gives a smaller number of grants to a range of environmental concerns, including land conservation and ecology education. These...
View ArticleWells Fargo: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Wells Fargo seriously entered environmental grantmaking in 2012 with a commitment to give $100 million to the issue by 2020. Together with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, it's...
View ArticleWilburforce Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Wilburforce is all about conservation in Western North America. It supports work in a dozen priority regions, with programs in conservation science, law and policy, and organizational...
View ArticleWilliam Penn Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The William Penn Foundation is one of the biggest players in Pennsylvania philanthropy. The protection and restoration of the Delaware watershed, which is where the Philadelphia metro area...
View ArticleWyss Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Wyss Foundation embodies its founder's love for the landscapes of the American West, keeping a lookout for western land areas to protect and well-placed partner organizations to help...
View ArticleBen & Jerry's Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the philanthropic arm of its ice cream company namesake, is devoted to supporting grassroots efforts for activism and change—with environmental...
View ArticleKingfisher Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Established in 1998, the Kingfisher Foundation is the family foundation of Goldman Sachs veteran Timothy Dattels and his wife Kristine. Kingfisher's goal is to help restore healthy marine...
View ArticleGeorgia-Pacific Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Georgia-Pacific Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the U.S.-based papermaking company, has a directive to “improve life in the communities where we live and work.” It seeks this...
View ArticleThe Bay & Paul Foundations: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Bay & Paul Foundations is committed to the environment, education, and arts and culture as a matter of “social compact” and as “agents of change.” IP TAKE: The environment is a...
View ArticleThe Lawrence Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Lawrence Foundation is a family foundation whose giving focuses on the environment, youth development and human services. IP TAKE: The environment is the foremost grant-getter for this...
View ArticleSecunda Family Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Bloomberg co-founder Thomas Secunda and his wife Cindy, Giving Pledge signatories, head the Secunda Family Foundation, a foundation that grants support in several areas, including...
View ArticleQuimby Family Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Maine's pristine forests and trails have held a longtime personal importance to Roxanne Quimby, and she looks out for them on a full-time basis through the Quimby Family Foundation. The...
View ArticleRobert W Woodruff Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation was established by a Coca-Cola CEO who was also an avid outdoorsman. So much so, he established a 29,000-acre quail-hunting reserve in the 1920s. Today, the...
View ArticleThreshold Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Threshold is actually a large collaborative of wealthy progressive donors, and has a diverse commitment to conservation. It provides support to organizations that are working to mitigate...
View ArticleTosa Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: John and Tashia Morgridge founded the Tosa Foundation in 1992 with the intention of financing humanitarian and environmental causes in their native Wisconsin. The foundation is now mostly...
View ArticleTurner Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: Ted Turner, founder of television stations such as CNN, WTBS, TNT and the personal owner of millions of acres of land, has a family foundation that grants a significant amount of money, in...
View ArticleUPS Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The shipping giant’s philanthropic arm currently has four main programs, one of which is the environment. It's particularly interested in reforestation and conservation, carbon reduction...
View ArticleWallace Genetic Foundation: Grants for Conservation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace Genetic Foundation supports land and water conservation across the United States and beyond, with a particular interest in conserving farmland and natural resoruces, as well as...
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