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Who funds climate adaptation work in Texas
9 funders have a record of paying for climate adaptation work by Texas recipients: 21 grants totaling $2.0M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($855,154), The Rockefeller Foundation ($550,000) and Walton Family Foundation ($300,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Texas recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
The Cynthia & George Mitchell FoundationThe Woodlands, TX
8 matching grants · $855,154 · through 2024Largest: $192,000 to Prairie View A&M University — to support the prairie view a&m algae center of excellence for climate resilient food-energy-water systems (pace-fews)
Largest: $350,000 to THENUDGE FOUNDATION — in support of identifying climate resilient and adaptive agricultural practices from grassroots communities
Largest: $225,000 to Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance — to support work educating commercial fishermen about the importance of catch shares and science-based climate-resilient fisheries and to develop a program to educate and train the …
Largest: $85,000 to Tree Folks Inc — toward continued support to build climate resilience by planting trees in regional floodplains and low-income urban neighborhoods in central texas
Largest: $10,000 to VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY DBA GLADYS PORTER ZOO — climate resiliency
Largest: $50,000 to GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT — climate resiliency in central texas
Austin Community FoundationAustin, TXCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $46,486 · through 2023Largest: $46,486 to FESTIVAL BEACH FOOD FOREST FISCALLY SPONSORED BY FRUITFUL COMMONS — multiplying the impact of festival beach food forest: urban forestry for food and climate resilience
Environmental Defense Fund IncorporatedNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $39,000 · through 2022Largest: $39,000 to Bahamas Sportfishing Conservation Corp — climate resilient fisheries & oceans
National Foundation for the Centers forAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $7,000 · through 2022Largest: $7,000 to MIGRANT CLINICIANS NETWORK INC — community-based organization capacity building for climate-resilient communities
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