Funding search · EIN 941153307 · Oakland, CA

Sierra Club

Name: Sierra Club grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

139
grants reported: $2.4M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,050
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

environmental protection

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

1 grant matching “forestkeeper” · $13,000

$13,000
Sequoia Forestkeeper · Kernville, CA · 2024
Environmental protection

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Rise To Thrive1 grant · $225,000
Texas Conservation Alliance1 grant · $100,000
Women'S March1 grant · $100,000
Southern Sector Rising1 grant · $76,765
Natural Resources Defense Council1 grant · $51,000
Jesus People Against Pollution1 grant · $50,000
Noto2org1 grant · $50,000
West Marion Community Forum1 grant · $48,500
Wv Environmental Council3 grants · $46,000
Rainforest Action Network3 grants · $45,000

Giving over time

$916,539

2022

$668,640

2023

$615,864

2024

$239,226

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 139 grants.

$225,000
Rise To Thrive · Hyattsville, MD · 2022
Environmental support
$100,000
Women'S March · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Environmental protection
$100,000
Texas Conservation Alliance · Dallas, TX · 2024
Environmental protection
$76,765
Southern Sector Rising · Dallas, TX · 2024
Environmental protection
$51,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2023
Environmental protection
$50,000
Jesus People Against Pollution · Columbia, MS · 2025
Environmental protection
$50,000
Noto2org · Debary, FL · 2024
Environmental protection
$48,500
West Marion Community Forum · Marion, NC · 2023
Environmental protection
$37,000
Healthy Gulf · New Orleans, LA · 2022
Environmental support
$35,029
Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Environmental support
$35,000
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund · Takoma Park, MD · 2025
Environmental protection
$35,000
South River Watershed Alliance · Decatur, GA · 2023
Environmental protection
$30,000
Oregon Wild · Portland, OR · 2023
Environmental protection
$30,000
Black To the Land Coalition · Detroit, MI · 2022
Environmental support
$30,000
Cambio Pr · San Juan, PR · 2022
Environmental support
$29,500
Micah 68 Mission · Sulphur, LA · 2022
Environmental support
$28,000
Arkansas Advanced Energy Association · Little Rock, AR · 2025
Environmental protection
$25,000
Interfaith Power & Light · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental protection
$24,329
Rotary Reach Foundation · Huntington, NY · 2024
Environmental protection
$24,000
Pathos Labs · Littleton, CO · 2023
Environmental protection
$24,000
The Good Energy Project · Perdido Beach, AL · 2023
Environmental protection
$24,000
West Virginia Citizens Action Education Fund · Charleston, WV · 2023
Environmental protection
$23,000
Sierra Nevada Alliance · South Lake Tahoe, CA · 2023
Environmental protection
$21,500
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$21,000
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$21,000
Green Building United · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Environmental support
$20,000
Green Latinos · Boulder, CO · 2024
Environmental protection
$20,000
Sierra Nevada Alliance · South Lake Tahoe, CA · 2024
Environmental protection
$20,000
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental protection
$20,000
Florida Rising Together · Orlando, FL · 2022
Environmental support
$20,000
Lawyer'S Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental support
$20,000
Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$20,000
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund · Austin, TX · 2022
Environmental support
$18,571
Mountain Watershed Association · Melcroft, PA · 2024
Environmental protection
$18,000
Wv Environmental Council · Charleston, WV · 2023
Environmental protection
$18,000
Wv Environmental Council · Charleston, WV · 2022
Environmental support
$17,500
Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas · Floresville, TX · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Lewis & Clark College · Portland, OR · 2024
Environmental protection
$15,000
Right To the City Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Environmental protection
$15,000
Earthjustice Action · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental protection
$15,000
Greenlatinos · Boulder, CO · 2023
Environmental protection
$15,000
Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2023
Environmental protection
$15,000
Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Environmental protection
$15,000
The People'S Port Authority · Providence, RI · 2023
Environmental protection
$15,000
Alaska Wilderness League · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Breath Is Lyfe · Desoto, TX · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Coming Clean · Brattleboro, VT · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Emerald Cities Collaborative · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Guardian Revival · Stormville, NY · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Operation Better Block · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Environmental support
$15,000
Se'Si'Le · Bellingham, WA · 2022
Environmental support
$14,625
Pennsylvania Bat Rescue · Mertztown, PA · 2024
Environmental protection
$14,407
Allegheny Land Trust · Sewickley, PA · 2023
Environmental protection
$14,386
The Merrill W Linn Land & Waterways Conservancy · Lewisburg, PA · 2024
Environmental protection
$14,138
Three Rivers Waterkeeper · Homestead, PA · 2024
Environmental protection
$13,000
Person County Community Action Network · Rougemont, NC · 2024
Environmental protection
$13,000
Sequoia Forestkeeper · Kernville, CA · 2024
Environmental protection
$13,000
Alaska'S Healing Hearts · Wasilla, AK · 2023
Environmental protection
$12,983
Grant To Evolve Ky · Louisville, KY · 2023
Environmental protection
$12,500
No On Measure C · Fresno, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$12,050
Kentucky Conservation Committee · Frankfort, KY · 2023
Environmental protection
$12,000
Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth · New York, NY · 2024
Environmental protection
$12,000
Rapid Creek Watershed Action · Rapid City, SD · 2023
Environmental protection
$12,000
Paradise Ridge Defense Coalition · Moscow, ID · 2022
Environmental support
$11,932
Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance · Kulpmont, PA · 2023
Environmental protection
$11,100
Indigenous Environmental Network of Turtle Island · Bemidji, MN · 2023
Environmental protection
$11,000
Environmental Council of Rhode Island Education Fund · Providence, RI · 2023
Environmental protection
$11,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$10,050
Kentucky Resources Council · Frankfurt, KY · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,050
Kentucky Resources Council · Frankfort, KY · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Wv Environmental Council · Charleston, WV · 2025
Environmental protection
$10,000
Delta Wind Birds · Oxford, MS · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project · Makawao, HI · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Groundwork Northeast Revitalization Group · Kansas City, KS · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Indigenous Environmental Network · Bemidji, MN · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Isaac W Bernheim Foundation · Clermont, KY · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Kentucky Heartwood · Frankfort, KY · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Malama Learning Center · Honolulu, HI · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Moloka'I Land Trust · Makawao, HI · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Save Our Forest Association · Rim Forest, CA · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Shiloh Community Center · Elba, AL · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Sweet Jane Productions · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
The Sanders Institute · Burlington, VT · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
Wildlands Conservancy · Emmaus, PA · 2024
Environmental protection
$10,000
American Indian Council of Mariposa County · Mariposa, CA · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Community Initiativeslatinos Outdoors · Oakland, CA · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Everyone'S Harvest · Monterey, CA · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County · Seattle, WA · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Micah 68 Mission · Sulphur, LA · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Mississippi Sierra Club Pac · Ridgeland, MS · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Tri City Cdc · Detroit, MI · 2023
Environmental protection
$10,000
Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Children of the Setting Sun Productions · Bellingham, WA · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Eastie Farms · East Boston, MA · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Ecologic · Charles, IL · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Idaho Conservation League · Boise, ID · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Louisiana Bucket Brigade · New Orleans, LA · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Outdoor Afro · Oakland, CA · 2022
Environmental support
$10,000
Port Arthur Community Action Network · Port Arthur, TX · 2022
Environmental support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.