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FY 2023

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2023EIN 81-0616238

Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development Inc

WASHINGTON, DCNTEE: Q20Founded 2003Website

mission statement

IGSD's mission is to promote fast climate mitigation to slow near-term warming and self-propagating climate feedbacks, avoid or at least delay catastrophic climate and societal tipping points, and limit global temperatures to 1.5 cor at least keep this temperature guardrail in sight and limit overshoot.

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Total Revenue

$12.2M

FY 2023

Program Spending

99.1%

of total expenses

Known Funders

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2023)

The Numbers

$12.0M

Total Assets

$10.8M net

15.26 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2023

Active Programs

FY 2023

Total Employees

FY 2023

Funding Track Record

Backed by 21 Institutional Funders

$30.8M raised across 38 grants · +$344K committed (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 6 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
Windward Fund	WASHINGTON, DC	$12,832,500
Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust	BOSTON, MA	$3,782,370
Sequoia Climate Foundation	IRVINE, CA	$3,750,000
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc	NEW YORK, NY	$2,570,000
Rockefeller Family Fund Inc	NEW YORK, NY	$2,250,000
Waverley Street Foundation	PALO ALTO, CA	$1,300,000
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc	NEW YORK, NY	$881,500 +$343,500 committed
Climateworks Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$544,442
Silicon Valley Community Foundation	Mountain View, CA	$500,000
John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation	CHICAGO, IL	$500,000

Total tracked: $30,834,276 across 38 grants · +$343,500 committed across 2 commitments (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2023)

What They Do

$6.8M in expenses

Sustainable developmentthe institute work to ensure fast cuts to the non-carbon dioxide climate pollutants and other fast climate mitigation strategies to slow near-term warming and self-amplifying climate feedbacks, avoid or at least delay catastrophic tipping points, and limit global temperature rise.

$1.6M in expenses

International climate litigationthe fast-action climate mitigation campaign - to promote non-co2 strategies that will result in significant emissions reductions in the near term as well as to complement cuts in co2 which are essential in the long-term.

Financial History

Revenue Over Time

Governance (FY 2023)

Leadership

Romina Picolotti

Senior Policy Advisor

Durwood Zaelke

President

Richard Ferris

Senior Counsel

Gabrielle Dreyfus

Senior Scientist

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