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Foundations that fund climate adaptation research
15 private foundations with a record of paying for climate adaptation, taken from their IRS Form 990-PF filings. These are grants already made — evidence of what a funder backs, not an open call.
THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
6 grants · $2.3M · through 2023
Largest: $1.0M to ATLAS AI PBC — in support of using its human and economic atlas platform to create an index to measure community-level vulnerability to climate change to advance climate adaption and resilience within vulnerable communities around the world.
IRS filings for EIN 131659629FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY
2 grants · $925,000 · through 2023
Largest: $125,000 to WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS — to support research on venezuela and inclusive climate adaptation and resilience building in central america
IRS filings for EIN 263753801THE KRESGE FOUNDATION
3 grants · $425,000 · through 2023
Largest: $125,000 to GLOBAL ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE INVESTMENT WORKING GROUP — to build a knowledge base around climate adaptation finance to catalyze investment in climate adaptation and resilience.
IRS filings for EIN 381359217JANE'S TRUST FOUNDATION
2 grants · $100,000 · through 2023
Largest: $50,000 to UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC — adaptive resiliency to climate change with wabanaki communities
IRS filings for EIN 273422536THE JPB FOUNDATION
3 grants · $3.5M · through 2023
Largest: $1.1M to NEW VENTURE FUND — climate damage and deception litigation support through the collective action fund for accountability, resilience, and adaptation (caf)
IRS filings for EIN 900747216KELLEYKNOX FAMILY FOUNDATION
1 grant · $24,995 · through 2023
Largest: $24,995 to The Nature Conservancy Colorado — helps to create flexible solutions for conservation and take action towards a more resilient, climate adapted future, and to leverage the policy and on the ground action against climate change and protect the land and waters that all life depend on.
IRS filings for EIN 841289071BERNARD F & ALVA B GIMBEL FOUNDATION
1 grant · $100,000 · through 2023
Largest: $100,000 to WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — climate resilience and adaptation
IRS filings for EIN 136090843GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION
1 grant · $70,000 · through 2023
Largest: $70,000 to RESOURCES LEGACY FUND — to support a synthesis report of western science and traditional knowledge regarding climate adaptation and wildfire resilience strategies for old and mature us forests.
IRS filings for EIN 943397785LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC
1 grant · $15,000 · through 2023
Largest: $15,000 to SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY — coastal climate resiliency and adaptation community charrettes
IRS filings for EIN 141893520THE BURNING FOUNDATION
1 grant · $20,000 · through 2022
Largest: $20,000 to KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — forest resiliency and climate adaptation in the siskiyous
IRS filings for EIN 911815335THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
2 grants · $186,926 · through 2023
Largest: $104,374 to CONSERVATION LAW FDN — 78016 adapting a blend of best practices from paris, london, italy, and brazil to build resilience to climate and health impacts in lawrence, mass.
IRS filings for EIN 226029397THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
2 grants · $1.3M · through 2023
Largest: $668,723 to CALIFORNIA STATE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — climate science alliance - building tribal climate resiliency and health: to strengthen californias native community-driven efforts to further equitable systems and practices for longer-term climate adaptation, recovery and rebuilding by applying indigenous wisdom and land management practices to heal landscapes, build climate-resilience workforce pathways and strengthen tribal governance.
IRS filings for EIN 954523232DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
1 grant · $100,000 · through 2022
Largest: $100,000 to TRUST FOR CONSERVATION INNOVATION (DBA MULTIPLIER) — to renew support for the climate resilience funds coordination and collaboration in the resilience ecosystem program, a national field building and regranting initiative to advance climate adaptation and resilience practice
IRS filings for EIN 823691183CO2 FOUNDATION
2 grants · $50,000 · through 2023
Largest: $25,000 to ECOADAPT — fostering a national climate change adaptation conversation and catalyzing the action required for innovative and collaborative climate-amplified extreme weather resilience.
IRS filings for EIN 833981914BARR FOUNDATION
1 grant · $62,500 · through 2022
Largest: $62,500 to (247) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — climate: to support mass ecosystem climate adaptation network to expand learning networks for climate resilience
IRS filings for EIN 046579815
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Start with one paperSource: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, filing years 2019–2023. Foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.