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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “degradation”
Where the money went
World Resources InstituteWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
74 matching grants · $26.0M · through 2023Largest: $4.2M to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND — reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems
Largest: $225,000 to R Street Institute — to support nonpartisan research exploring how federally subsidized crop insurance and other farm subsidy programs perpetuate environmental degradation and how to reform those progr…
Largest: $400,000 to THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — support for research project entitled, stimulating synaptic protein degradation for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
Conservation International FoundationArlington, VACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $458,669 · through 2022Largest: $281,437 to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — nceas - research tasks; strengthening land degradation neutrality and drought resilience data and decision-making
Largest: $55,000 to DUKE UNIVERSITY — to support dr. liang feng in undertaking a collaborative research project to study the impact of sorbent degradation on lifecycle impacts of carbon dioxide removal technologies, re…
Largest: $40,000 to Center for Biological Diversity Inc — toward legal action addressing environmental degradation along the lower texas coast
Largest: $1.1M to California Institute of Technology — in support of the development of a potential breakthrough solution to the issue of high energy costs as both a barrier to sustainable economic development and a driver of ecosystem…
Largest: $200,000 to PROSPERA INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF WOMEN'S FUNDS — core support for climate and gender justice summit: assessing climate-induced disasters and linkages between environmental degradation and gender-based violence, sexual and reprodu…
Largest: $90,000 to UCSD — effects of cross-feeding and aggregation on particulate organic matter degradation by marine bacteria
Responsible Battery CoalitionWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $200,000 · through 2024Largest: $131,892 to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — strategies to limit degradation and maximize battery
Wm Keck FoundationLos Angeles, CA
2 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2023Largest: $1.3M to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — to develop targeted protein degradation, advanced imaging, and supercomputing methods to study the biological effects of tau aggregates in human neurons.
Largest: $100,000 to FAIRVENTURES WORLDWIDE GGMBH — support for improving connectivity for ape species in degraded habitat in the sebangau katingan corridor landscape.
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →