California · Nonprofit
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,400,790 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($184,345,050). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $351M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $1.2B
- Net assets
- $441M
What Climateworks Foundation does
Mission
Climateworks Foundation's mission is to connect philanthropy, grantees, and strategic partners to build and deliver high-impact climate solutions that benefit all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, climateworks worked with an expansive network of partners to contribute to achievements around the globe, driving meaningful progress on climate action. Strategies and grantmaking through our global programs: climateworks' strategies and grantmaking accelerate transformative climate progress. We help climate philanthropy create strategies, programs, and initiatives around the world; incubate, fund, and grow high-impact climate solutions; and unlock new partnerships across sectors and issue areas for transformative systems change. In 2024, climateworks granted over $248 million via 781 grants, gifts, and programmatic contracts to 442 grantees based in 44 countries. Progress highlights include: - global industry hub: Climateworks Foundation supported the incubation of the global industry hub, a new funder collaborative working to accelerate industrial decarbonization at a global scale. With support from a coalition of visionary funders, the hub brings together capital, innovation, and strategy to tackle emissions at their source. The global industry hub's primary strategy is source investing, which goes beyond downstream climate solutions -- like renewable energy adoption…
$258,122,467 spentof which $207,735,100 as grants87% of program spendingClimateworks' forests and land use program is led by the climate and land use alliance (clua). As an alliance, clua supports policies, practices, and partnerships that halt and reverse forest loss, advance sustainable land use and development, and secure the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and forest communities. Among clua's key priorities is supporting just economic transitions that strengthen equity and transparency, revitalize forest economies, and reverse forest loss, while mobilizing more accessible and effective finance for forests and communities. In 2024, clua made grants supporting work on regenerative forest economies and financial resilience. In brazil, indonesia, mexico, and central america, clua supported efforts to position regenerative forest economies as viable approaches to supporting resilient communities, economies, and forests. In brazil, colombia, and peru, clua support focused on integrating socio-bioeconomies with effective community governance. In indonesia, clua supported organizations advancing restorative economy pilots to demonstrate their feasibility at scale. Across mexico and central america, support for financial innovations like…
$39,871,359 spentof which $22,030,815 as grants13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,993,826.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $272M to $503M (+85%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 20% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (36% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Franklin M Orr Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $30M → $97M.
13 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 43% · 2019 50% · 2020 24% · 2021 40% · 2022 48% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 42 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Climate and Land Use Alliance LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION?
- CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,400,790 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($184,345,050). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $1,201,400,790 in grants to CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $184,345,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing