Foundations that fund environment and conservation

12,722 private foundations made grants for environment and conservation in their latest year, totalling $5.8 billion. Pick a state to see who funds environment and conservation there and whether they accept applications.

By state

Environment and conservation in New York
$883 million from 3,989 foundations
Environment and conservation in California
$796 million from 3,595 foundations
Environment and conservation in Indiana
$465 million from 391 foundations
Environment and conservation in District of Columbia
$459 million from 2,736 foundations
Environment and conservation in Virginia
$375 million from 2,699 foundations
Environment and conservation in Texas
$268 million from 1,452 foundations
Environment and conservation in Massachusetts
$201 million from 1,638 foundations
Environment and conservation in Pennsylvania
$171 million from 1,091 foundations
Environment and conservation in Florida
$143 million from 2,107 foundations
Environment and conservation in Georgia
$140 million from 555 foundations
Environment and conservation in Illinois
$121 million from 1,374 foundations
Environment and conservation in Maryland
$120 million from 892 foundations
Environment and conservation in Colorado
$109 million from 1,120 foundations
Environment and conservation in North Carolina
$105 million from 1,003 foundations
Environment and conservation in Missouri
$82.5 million from 492 foundations
Environment and conservation in Michigan
$81.3 million from 704 foundations
Environment and conservation in Washington
$77.0 million from 781 foundations
Environment and conservation in Minnesota
$75.6 million from 598 foundations
Environment and conservation in New Jersey
$69.6 million from 787 foundations
Environment and conservation in Ohio
$56.8 million from 808 foundations
Environment and conservation in South Carolina
$53.9 million from 394 foundations
Environment and conservation in Oregon
$53.6 million from 618 foundations
Environment and conservation in Tennessee
$50.9 million from 443 foundations
Environment and conservation in Wisconsin
$42.9 million from 747 foundations
Environment and conservation in Connecticut
$40.0 million from 760 foundations
Environment and conservation in Arkansas
$39.3 million from 110 foundations
Environment and conservation in Hawaii
$37.2 million from 241 foundations
Environment and conservation in Montana
$36.7 million from 536 foundations
Environment and conservation in Arizona
$34.3 million from 424 foundations
Environment and conservation in Delaware
$34.1 million from 94 foundations
Environment and conservation in Maine
$33.7 million from 602 foundations
Environment and conservation in Nebraska
$32.8 million from 192 foundations
Environment and conservation in Wyoming
$32.7 million from 343 foundations
Environment and conservation in Utah
$31.1 million from 375 foundations
Environment and conservation in Iowa
$28.4 million from 363 foundations
Environment and conservation in Vermont
$24.1 million from 365 foundations
Environment and conservation in Idaho
$22.5 million from 381 foundations
Environment and conservation in Kentucky
$20.4 million from 273 foundations
Environment and conservation in Louisiana
$19.0 million from 197 foundations
Environment and conservation in Oklahoma
$18.7 million from 175 foundations
Environment and conservation in New Hampshire
$17.3 million from 394 foundations
Environment and conservation in Alaska
$15.8 million from 127 foundations
Environment and conservation in Rhode Island
$15.0 million from 264 foundations
Environment and conservation in South Dakota
$12.5 million from 59 foundations
Environment and conservation in West Virginia
$12.4 million from 230 foundations
Environment and conservation in Alabama
$11.8 million from 259 foundations
Environment and conservation in New Mexico
$10.5 million from 195 foundations
Environment and conservation in Kansas
$7.4 million from 195 foundations
Environment and conservation in Nevada
$7.0 million from 120 foundations
Environment and conservation in Mississippi
$4.4 million from 74 foundations
Environment and conservation in North Dakota
$3.0 million from 74 foundations
Environment and conservation in Puerto Rico
$1.2 million from 17 foundations
Environment and conservation in U.S. Virgin Islands
$410,861 from 16 foundations
Environment and conservation in Guam
$116,000 from 3 foundations

Largest environment and conservation funders in our data

Foundation	Based in	Environment and conservation grants
Lilly Endowment Inc	Indiana	$483 million
Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation	California	$113 million
Waverley Street Foundation	California	$111 million
Walton Family Foundation Inc	Arkansas	$109 million
The Rockefeller Foundation	New York	$88.2 million
Sequoia Climate Foundation	California	$81.8 million
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation	California	$81.2 million
Freedom Together Foundation	New York	$75.0 million
Sergey Brin Family Foundation	California	$69.7 million
The Rob Walton Foundation	Arkansas	$66.4 million
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation	California	$53.9 million
Holland M Ware Charitable Foundation	Idaho	$53.2 million
The Benificus Foundation	California	$52.8 million
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc	New York	$51.6 million
The Schmidt Family Foundation	California	$50.8 million
Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc	Georgia	$47.5 million
The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation	Michigan	$44.6 million
Clark Charitable Foundation Inc DBA A James & Alice B Clark Foundation	Maryland	$38.6 million
Kinder Foundation	Texas	$36.9 million
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation	New York	$36.8 million
The William Penn Foundation	Pennsylvania	$34.5 million
John S and James L Knight Foundation	Florida	$30.9 million
Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation	South Carolina	$30.4 million
The James & Merryl Tisch Foundation Inc	New York	$30.4 million
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	New Jersey	$28.9 million
The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc	New York	$28.3 million
Wem Foundation	Minnesota	$27.5 million
The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc	Georgia	$27.0 million
The Heinz Endowments	Pennsylvania	$26.5 million
The Sherwood Foundation	Nebraska	$23.0 million

Totals add up each foundation's environment and conservation grants in the states where it ranks among the top funders, so they can understate its total.