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12 funders with a record of paying for “geoengineering”
Where the money went
Largest: $75,000 to FRIENDS OF ACTION GROUP ON EROSION TECHNOLOGY AND CONCENTRATION INC — strengthening civil society resistance to climate geoengineering
Largest: $150,000 to Friends of the Earth — addressing geoengineering dangers
Largest: $250,000 to THE ALLIANCE FOR JUST DELIBERATION ON SOLAR GEOENGINEERING — climate science & policy research
Largest: $40,000 to GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT — biofuelwatch us: geoengineering, biosequestration, & synbio critiques
Largest: $250,000 to THE ALLIANCE FOR JUST DELIBERATION ON SOLAR GEOENGINEERING INC — to accelerate the use of srm research and technology
Friends of the EarthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $22,000 · through 2024Largest: $12,000 to INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — to mitigate climate geoengineering.
Largest: $150,000 to THE ALLIANCE FOR JUST DELIBERATION ON SOLAR GEOENG — to support work towards just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering, in order to ultimately protect impacted and the most climate vulne…
Institute for Governance and SustainableWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $50,000 · through 2023Largest: $50,000 to COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL — research solar geoengineering
Largest: $100,000 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — cornell will design, conduct, and analyze climate model simulations with the goal of more systematically assessing the importance of different physical stratospheric processes in c…
Largest: $100,000 to AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — solar geoengineering governance initiative
Largest: $15,980 to IVAN EMILIO EMILIO MONTENEGRO PERIN — montenegro perini, ivan (california, davis, u. of) "mining corporations and geoengineering practices: terraforming landscapes destroyed by coal extraction"
Largest: $500,000 to PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — initial small-scale experimental facility for solar geoengineering science
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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 →