Top 50 Environmental Funders

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Listed below are the top 50 U.S. Foundations that awarded grants for environmental issues and projects in 2000.

These would be good starting points for your prospect research.

Top 50 U.S. Foundations Awarding Grants for Environment, circa 2000*

Foundation Name State Dollar Amount No. of Grants

1. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation CA $168,402,176 282

2. The Ford Foundation NY 45,781,017 253

3. The Pew Charitable Trusts PA 43,293,000 43

4. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation NY 29,482,735 17

5. Turner Foundation, Inc. GA 28,636,929 269

6. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation IL 25,551,608 109

7. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation NY 25,261,400 65

8. Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc. GA 23,437,618 15

9. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation MI 20,748,462 95

10. The Rockefeller Foundation NY 18,994,913 42

11. Surdna Foundation, Inc. NY 14,930,000 72

12. W. Alton Jones Foundation, Inc. VA 14,436,249 166

13. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation CA 14,305,000 89

14. Energy Foundation CA 14,224,556 144

15. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. NY 13,717,375 94

16. Longwood Foundation, Inc. DE 13,366,900 5

17. The Joyce Foundation IL 12,115,165 49

18. Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund CA 10,298,500 129

19. The Starr Foundation NY 9,217,000 15

20. The William Penn Foundation PA 9,038,940 35

21. Richard King Mellon Foundation PA 8,468,000 34

22. Foundation for Deep Ecology CA 7,838,274 127

23. The Kresge Foundation MI 7,800,000 17

24. The Meijer Foundation MI 7,462,843 3

25. The McKnight Foundation MN 7,312,500 49

26. The James Irvine Foundation CA 6,580,000 13

27. Marin Community Foundation CA 6,500,192 47

28. The Paul G. Allen Forest Protection Foundation WA 5,750,119 6

29. The Freeman Foundation NY 5,510,909 7

30. The Danforth Foundation MO 5,475,000 4

31. Howard Heinz Endowment PA 5,108,100 37

32. The Bullitt Foundation WA 5,078,640 158

33. Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Inc. NJ 4,820,800 81

34. Houston Endowment Inc. TX 4,670,000 19

35. The Educational Foundation of America CT 4,500,426 56

36. Park Foundation, Inc. NY 4,445,700 50

37. S. J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation UT 4,412,500 7

38. V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation MA 4,330,975 21

39. The San Francisco Foundation CA 4,281,010 92

40. Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund CA 4,237,500 11

41. The Champlin Foundations RI 4,065,123 4

42. W. K. Kellogg Foundation MI 3,965,579 20

43. Moore Family Foundation CA 3,920,000 15

44. Heinz Family Foundation PA 3,606,434 16

45. The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation GA 3,522,362 38

46. The George Gund Foundation OH 3,473,174 68

47. Peter Kiewit Foundation NE 3,400,000 4

48. The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Inc. NY 3,273,675 52

49. Irwin Family Foundation IL 3,154,066 1

50. The Florence and John Schumann Foundation NJ 3,105,000 4

Total $705,308,444 3,049