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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 “sequestration”
Where the money went
Largest: $300,000 to THE CLIMATE CENTER — accelerating climate action in california: scaling up natural sequestration on working lands
Largest: $300,000 to Carbon180 — to support its research on agroforestry and carbon sequestration financing opportunities
Advocacy Action FundMenlo Park, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $825,000 · through 2022Largest: $300,000 to TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE — to support work that identifies waste, fraud, and abuse in carbon capture and sequestration
Largest: $24,181 to Harris County Precinct 3 — to leave the world a better place through scientific study and practical application of environmentally sound principles of land use planning andtree-planting as a method of carbon…
Largest: $55,000 to UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — to support dr. rachel davidson in undertaking a collaborative research project to study the potential of basalt formations for long-term carbon sequestration, resulting from the 20…
Largest: $1.2M to UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION — to renew support for the u.s. climate alliances natural and working lands initiative to deploy natural climate solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector, in…
Largest: $50,000 to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders — to continue to support funder education and engagement on policy development to reduce emissions from working lands and to advance carbon sequestration strategies
Largest: $46,012 to AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS — empowering tribes to leverage the power of effective networks, reducing the risk of extreme weather impacts and increasing the number of carbon sequestration and mitigation project…
The New World FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $75,000 · through 2023Largest: $25,000 to IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT — in support of work on carbon capture, sequestration and hydrogen hubs
Largest: $25,000 to YALE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT — to support the leading forestry and carbon sequestration resarch in the country
Initiative FoundationLittle Falls, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $43,000 · through 2023Largest: $26,000 to NORTHERN WATERS LAND TRUST — to expand an existing program which explores how foresters, farmers and other properties owners can gain financial benefit from carbon sequestration (through the protection or rest…
Largest: $861,504 to CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — accelerating riparian carbon sequestration
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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 →