About Bhp Foundation
BHP Foundation concentrates its giving on large, strategic environmental and community resilience initiatives—particularly coastal and tropical ecosystem conservation, reef resilience, and sustainable landscape programs—while also supporting complementary investments in youth wellbeing and STEM in regions where BHP operates. Grants are sizable and programmatic, often multi-year and aimed at scaling proven conservation models, strengthening Indigenous-led land stewardship, and building local capacity (including youth mental health and STEM education) in Australia and key international biodiversity hotspots.
Focus Areas
Tropical and coastal ecosystem conservation (e.g., Valdivian coast, Alto Mayo)Great Barrier Reef resilience and coral reef restorationIndigenous-led land stewardship and northern Australia on‑the‑land youth collaborativesCapacity building in STEM education in Australia (STEM Champions)Youth mental health access and community-based early intervention
Who They Fund
rural smallholder and landscape-dependent livelihoodscoral-reef dependent coastal communities
About Bhp Foundation
Bhp Foundation’s recent giving is defined by large, multi-year conservation bets: a $11.5 million grant to The Nature Conservancy for the Valdivian Coastal Reserve and a $7.1 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation for Resilient Reefs Initiative, Phase 2 Scaling. Those awards sit alongside a long run of support for landscape-scale biodiversity work, reef resilience, and Indigenous-led stewardship in Australia and other biodiversity hotspots. The foundation also backs linked community priorities where they intersect with place-based resilience, including youth mental health, STEM education, and natural resource governance. Several of the largest grants point to a strategy built around scaling existing models rather than short-term project funding. Conservation International received repeated awards for the Alto Mayo project, which seeks to promote a sustainable landscape model that improves livelihoods while advancing conservation and climate resilience. Indigenous Desert Alliance and Makeway Foundation also appear among the larger recipients, reflecting support for Indigenous communities and northern Australia youth collaboration. Brookings Institution and Teach for All show that the foundation also invests in policy, evidence, and education systems work alongside its environmental portfolio.
What Bhp Foundation Funds
Environmental conservation is the clearest throughline. Bhp Foundation gave $5.5 million in 2023, $4.8 million in 2024, and $2.5 million in 2024 to Conservation International Foundation for the Alto Mayo project, with the stated aim of combining conservation, sustainable production, and climate resilience. Reef work is another major lane: the Great Barrier Reef Foundation received $7.1 million for the Resilient Reefs Initiative, Phase 2 Scaling, and another $2.8 million in 2024 to improve outcomes for coral reef-dependent communities through local action and climate resilience plans. The foundation also funds Indigenous-led land and cultural priorities. It gave $3.4 million to Indigenous Desert Alliance for Keeping the Deserts Connected - Phase 2 and $2.5 million to Smartice Sea Monitoring & Information Inc for ice navigation, economic self determination, and culture preservation for Inuit youth and communities. In education and youth wellbeing, grants supported Csiro’s STEM Champions project, the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre’s youth mental health work, and Teach for All’s community-led education change.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$75M
Total Assets
$185.4M
Total Revenue
$7.3M
Total Expenses
$77.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $175K and $1.5M, with a median of $847K.
25th Percentile
$175K
Median
$847K
75th Percentile
$1.5M
Geographic Reach
National8 states funded
About 21% of grants go to recipients in VA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
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Where Bhp Foundation Funds
Top 8 recipient countries by grant volume for Bhp Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 68 | $77.5M | 31.5% |
| 2 | United StatesDomestic | 58 |
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