Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and gives by invitation only, so a cold application is unlikely to get anywhere; build a connection first and let it lead to an introduction.
• Its focus on chemical toxicity and climate change, including clean firm energy, regenerative agriculture and carbon removal, and its funding of academic hubs and NGO partners for global advocacy, should be checked against your work before you approach it.
• Most of its grants fall between $82,500 and $2,000,000, and half of its grants are $400,000 or less, so a modest, carefully sized request fits its typical grants.
• It excludes proposals with indirect costs above 10%, so check your overhead rate before you prepare a budget.
• In the filing, 86% of grant dollars went to organisations it had funded before, so a new applicant should expect a competitive, relationship-led route.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Conservation International · Natural resource conservation and protection
  $4,500,0002024 tax year
• Stichting Foundation for International Law for the Environment · Natural resource conservation and protection
  $4,100,0002024 tax year
• London School of Economics and Political Science · Support for the grantham institute
  $3,250,9482024 tax year
• Stichting SED Fund · Climate education
  $3,000,0002024 tax year
• Windward Fund · Climate science & policy research
  $2,750,0002024 tax year
• Carbon Gap · Climate science & policy research
  $2,723,0002024 tax year
• New Venture Fund · Climate science & policy research
  $2,500,0002024 tax year
• Meliore Fup · Climate communications
  $2,500,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.