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Climate Fund
Become a high-impact climate philanthropist
You donate. We research and analyze extensively, making grants to highly effective charities and projects. Every dollar of your donation is leveraged to achieve the greatest possible impact in the fight against climate change.
Fund highlights
$29,250,000
Granted to high-impact charities and projects
5,600+
Individual donors
What we do
We find and fund impactful, neglected climate solutions
Let’s improve how the world fights climate change. We make targeted philanthropic grants to build a global climate response that is more robust, diversified, and future-proof.
We fill gaps and blindspots
The mainstream climate response often overlooks and underfunds important climate solutions (see here for past examples). We analyze the funding landscape and seek out the best opportunities that are neglected by others.
We prioritize impact
We tackle climate change as the global, long-term challenge it is, focusing on solutions that change trajectories and transform systems. This requires us to confront many unknowns in the climate space. Here's how we do it.
We’re creating tools that help assess and compare opportunities to make our grantmaking more effective and efficient.
We minimize damage
Climate change is causing devastating damage around the world, and it's expected to get much, much worse. In fact, it becomes increasingly more harmful as it gets more extreme.
We plan for worst-case scenarios, aiming to reduce the biggest risks, and look for solutions that will be effective if everything goes wrong. Learn more.
▲ Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash
Paths to impact
Climate progress requires sustained government action, but policies are vulnerable to elections and political division. We fund efforts (and are exploring opportunities around the world) to build bipartisan support, making essential climate policies more resilient, no matter who’s in office.
Some of the most promising solutions don’t get the attention or funding they need. We fund advocacy to bring these ideas into the spotlight, which can shape policy, influence spending, and shift priorities in both government and private sectors.
Infrastructure built today can commit us to emissions-intensive production for decades. We fund efforts to make new infrastructure as low-carbon as possible and look for ways to reduce future emissions from existing systems.
The world needs to decarbonize energy systems and still meet rapidly rising energy demands. We fund efforts to fast-track and deploy low-carbon technologies, such as advanced geothermal and nuclear, to meet this challenge.
Make real progress against climate change
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Founders Pledge members
Contribute through your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) easily through the member app. Don’t have a DAF or want to discuss your options? Reach out to giving@founderspledge.com.
Not a member?
Contribute through Every.org or Giving What We Can. You can also contribute from any Donor Advised Fund; for details, reach out to giving@founderspledge.com.
Meet the Fund Manager
Johannes Ackva
Johannes has dedicated much of his adult life to this topic. From a teenage environmental activist to a climate policy expert advising major EU decision makers, Johannes is committed to solving the problem of global energy poverty, while simultaneously reaching net-zero emissions and protecting our planet.
Prior to joining Founder Pledge, Johannes spent five years working in a think tank advising decision makers on climate policy, and conducting academic research into the intersection between effective and feasible climate policies.
