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FY 2024

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2024EIN 94-6069890

Sierra Club Foundation

OAKLAND, CANTEE: C300Founded 1960Website

mission statement

Educate and empower people to protect and improve the natural and human environment.

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Total Revenue

$108.2M

FY 2024

Program Spending

85.7%

of total expenses

Known Funders

838

2019–2025 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2024)

The Numbers

$210.7M

Total Assets

$180.6M net

21.22 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2024

+21%

Revenue Growth

YoY

Total Employees

FY 2024

Funding Track Record

Backed by 838 Institutional Funders

$364.3M raised across 2515 grants · +$33.3M committed (2019–2025 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 49 states (2019–2025 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
Climate Imperative Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$67,762,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund	BOSTON, MA	$48,078,672
The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc	NEW YORK, NY	$44,575,000
Yellow Chair Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$22,500,000 +$21,000,000 committed
John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation	CHICAGO, IL	$20,000,000 +$7,000,000 committed
Foundation for the Carolinas	CHARLOTTE, NC	$13,537,850
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc	Boston, MA	$13,277,505
Climateworks Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$8,464,933
Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$7,804,255
Sequoia Climate Foundation	IRVINE, CA	$7,100,000

Total tracked: $364,326,263 across 2515 grants · +$33,322,901 committed across 42 commitments (2019–2025 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 2024)

What They Do

$17.1M in expenses

Beyond coal - the long-term goal of this program is to reverse the social, economic, and environmental damage caused by global climate change by decarbonizing the electric grid by 80 percent by 2030. The program's specific goals - working in partnership with allied organizations - are to help transition aging and uneconomic coal plants towards cleaner alternatives that also benefit the local community.

$15.4M in expenses

Chapter and group education project - this project supports the state and local chapters and groups of the sierra club in their work to advance all of the sierra club's strategic framework goals through public education, organizing, administrative advocacy, communications, litigation, and other charitable activities. The specific goals are to enable local grassroots activists across the country to actively engage in their own communities; design and implement conservation campaigns to protect the natural and human environment; inform the public and members and supporters about environmental issues of local interest; engage in public interest lawsuits; and grow a broader base of volunteers and leaders contributing to community-inspired and-led programming, including to increase opportunities for youth, children, and families to develop and enhance personal connections to nature.

$8.8M in expenses

National education project - this project educates, engages, and mobilizes the public in administrative advocacy about a range of environmental issues to advance the sierra club's strategic framework; provides program, operations, and management support to implement the charitable projects of the sierra club; and works in coalition and in partnership with local communities and groups to advance outcomes at the intersection of climate, social, and racial justice. It is a project through which the sierra club foundation works to achieve its mission to educate and empower people to protect and improve the natural and human environment.

$46.1M in expenses

The sierra club foundation provides a broad range of additional grants to support charitable, education, scientific, literary and legal endeavors that further its charitable mission.

Financial History