Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

About Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment concentrates on large, targeted grants for climate and environmental work that can influence policy, build research capacity, and support public-facing advocacy. Its recent grants show a strong emphasis on science and institutional platforms: $3.7 million to University of California Los Angeles for CDR research, $3.675 million to Windward Fund for climate science and policy research, and $3.25 million to the London School of Economics and Political Science for support for the Grantham Institute. The foundation also backs conservation and legal infrastructure, including $4.9 million to Stichting Foundation for International Law for the Environment for natural resource conservation and protection and $4.5 million to Conservation International for the same purpose. The grant record suggests a preference for organizations that can move beyond one-off project work. University centers, environmental law groups, policy intermediaries, and communications organizations all appear in the portfolio, alongside international and U.S.-based recipients. Funding reaches climate science, carbon removal, methane detection, conservation, and climate education, with repeated support for several institutions across multiple years. The overall pattern is one of strategic, high-dollar grants aimed at environmental protection at scale.

What Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment Funds

Climate science and policy research is a major thread in the foundation’s portfolio. It gave $3.675 million to Windward Fund for climate science & policy research and $2.723 million to Carbon Gap Ltd for the same purpose, while also supporting Project Innerspace with $2.4 million. Carbon removal and emissions monitoring also feature prominently. The foundation awarded $3.7 million to University of California Los Angeles for CDR research and $2 million to Carbon Mapper for methane emission detection. In another technical research area, California Institute of Technology received $1.8 million for a carbon mineralization project. Education and communications are another focus. Stichting Sed Fund received $4 million for climate education, and Meliore Fup received $2.5 million for climate communications. The portfolio also includes conservation work, such as $2 million to Stichting Rewilding Europe Foundation for natural resource conservation and protection.

How Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment Gives