California · Private foundation
Sequoia Climate Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $305M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 187
- Grants FY2024
- 100
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,900,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 100
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $114M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Sequoia Climate Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 120 | $270M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $234M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $144M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $106M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Resources Institute | $30,195,000 | 4 | 4% |
| United States Energy Foundation | $26,895,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $25,930,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Climateworks Foundation | $24,013,080 | 4 | 3% |
| The Energy Foundation | $22,720,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $15,920,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Clasp | $13,250,000 | 4 | 16% |
| International Sustainable Energy Foundation | $12,730,000 | 3 | 15% |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $11,690,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | $10,150,000 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 109 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($364M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sequoia Climate Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Climateworks Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Climate Imperative Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Windward Fund · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Sequoia Climate Foundation
- How much does Sequoia Climate Foundation give?
- Sequoia Climate Foundation reported 187 grants totaling $305,365,925 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 100 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Sequoia Climate Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (81%), Philanthropy (11%), Education (3%).
- Who are Sequoia Climate Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: World Resources Institute ($30M), United States Energy Foundation ($27M), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($26M).
- Does Sequoia Climate Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sequoia Climate Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sequoia Climate Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Climateworks Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Heising-Simons Foundation.
- Where is Sequoia Climate Foundation based?
- Sequoia Climate Foundation is based in CA.
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