Follow the Money: Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is no friend to America’s farmers and ethanol producers.
The radical organization argues that ethanol is responsible for “increasing the cost of food, harming consumers, and wasting taxpayer money. Corn ethanol is neither environmentally nor socially sustainable and cannot be a part of any clean energy future.”
Furthermore, the group opposes the Biden administration’s biofuels mandate, despite the mandate’s strong support of farmers and ethanol producers. FOE attacks the mandate as “a toxic plan directly at odds with the Biden Administration’s commitment to Environmental Justice.”
Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that Energy Foundation China has provided $1,155,000 in grants to Friends of the Earth since 2003. Energy Foundation China has praised the communist Chinese government for its “efforts to achieve modernization by upgrading its economy and decarbonizing its energy system with high productivity and much lower emissions of carbon and other pollutants.”
Below are organizations that have provided grants of more than $40,000 to FOE since 2003.
| Grantmaker | City, State | Amount Funded |
| Foundation For The Carolinas | Charlotte, NC | $22,576,100 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Flint, MI | $3,785,000 |
| Ford Foundation | New York City, NY | $3,745,000 |
| David And Lucile Packard Foundation | Los Altos, CA | $2,671,550 |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. | New York City, NY | $2,107,500 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $2,072,515 |
| Energy Foundation China | San Francisco, CA | $1,155,000 |
| Vanguard Charitable | Malvern, PA | $1,015,750 |
| Greater Kansas City Community Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $860,350 |
| CS Fund | Sebastopol, CA | $840,000 |
| Oak Foundation | Cointrin, | $710,298 |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $601,200 |
| Park Foundation | Ithaca, NY | $532,500 |
| The Marisla Foundation | Laguna Beach, CA | $530,000 |
| Gordon E And Betty I Moore Foundation | Palo Alto, CA | $511,500 |
| Climateworks Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $500,000 |
| Public Welfare Foundation, Inc. | Washington, DC | $500,000 |
| Turner Foundation, Inc. | Atlanta, GA | $492,997 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $455,413 |
| New York Community Trust Aka Community Funds, Inc. | New York City, NY | $450,263 |
| The Oak Foundation U.S.A. | San Francisco, CA | $434,649 |
| Educational Foundation Of America | Wilmington, DE | $420,000 |
| Scherman Foundation Inc | New York City, NY | $400,000 |
| Arca Foundation | Washington, DC | $395,000 |
| The Ceres Trust | Chicago, IL | $370,000 |
| The Schmidt Family Foundation | Palo Alto, CA | $350,000 |
| Dr. Bronners Family Foundation | Vista, CA | $337,500 |
| Gould Foundation, Inc. | New York City, NY | $325,000 |
| Marty And Dorothy Silverman Foundation | New York City, NY | $310,000 |
| Appleton Foundation | Santa Cruz, CA | $308,000 |
| Arcus Foundation | New York City, NY | $300,000 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $291,352 |
| Cassiopeia Foundation, Inc. | Charlottesville, VA | $250,000 |
| John D. And Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation | Chicago, IL | $250,000 |
| PACCAR Foundation | Bellevue, WA | $250,000 |
| The Partnership Project Action Fund | Washington, DC | $250,000 |
| Margaret A Cargill Foundation | Eden Prairie, MN | $234,932 |
| The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation | Seattle, WA | $223,958 |
| Resources Legacy Fund | Sacramento, CA | $215,000 |
| Columbus Foundation | Columbus, OH | $210,200 |
| Warsh-Mott Legacy | Sebastopol, CA | $210,000 |
| The Boston Foundation | Boston, MA | $166,550 |
| Fraternal Order Of Eagles | Wapakoneta, OH | $163,626 |
| Gary E Milgard Family Foundation – Mark | Tacoma, WA | $150,000 |
| Surdna Foundation Inc | New York City, NY | $150,000 |
| Rudolf Steiner Foundation, Inc. Dba Rsf Social Finance | San Francisco, CA | $126,500 |
| V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation Inc. | New York City, NY | $125,000 |
| Arkay Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $120,000 |
| Roy A. Hunt Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $119,000 |
| Rose Foundation For Communities And The Environment | Oakland, CA | $107,593 |
| Donald C. Brace Foundation | Newtown, CT | $105,000 |
| Greater Washington Community Foundation | Washington, DC | $103,750 |
| Corio Foundation | Los Ranchos, NM | $100,000 |
| Marin Community Foundation | Novato, CA | $100,000 |
| The Rockefeller Foundation | New York City, NY | $100,000 |
| The Morris And Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation | Washington, DC | $95,000 |
| Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation | Cedar Rapids, IA | $92,500 |
| Network For Good, Inc. | Washington, DC | $90,685 |
| The Partnership Project, Inc. | Washington, DC | $88,900 |
| Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | St Paul, MN | $85,522 |
| ImpactAssets | Bethesda, MD | $85,309 |
| Bullitt Foundation | Seattle, WA | $85,000 |
| The John Merck Fund | Boston, MA | $85,000 |
| Wallace Global Fund II | Washington, DC | $85,000 |
| The Nathan Cummings Foundation | New York City, NY | $80,000 |
| Lisa And Douglas Goldman Fund | San Francisco, CA | $77,500 |
| San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 |
| J.M. Kaplan Fund | New York City, NY | $75,000 |
| Tides Advocacy | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 |
| The Sigrid Rausing Trust | London, | $70,325 |
| Moriah Fund, Inc. | New York City, NY | $70,000 |
| The Keith Campbell Foundation For The Environment Inc | Bethesda, MD | $60,000 |
| TSC | Fort Mill, SC | $60,000 |
| Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco, The Peninsula , Marin & Sonoma Counties | San Francisco, CA | $57,563 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. | New York City, NY | $56,000 |
| Wiancko Charitable Foundation Inc. | Seattle, WA | $54,029 |
| Northwest Fund For The Environment | Seattle, WA | $53,000 |
| Compton Foundation Inc | San Francisco, CA | $52,500 |
| Chorus Foundation | Boston, MA | $50,000 |
| The Christensen Fund | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 |
| CMR Foundation | Stanwood, WA | $50,000 |
| Frank Mchugh- O’Donovan Foundation, Inc. | Wilmington, DE | $50,000 |
| Open Society Institute | New York City, NY | $50,000 |
| The Wyss Foundation | Washington, DC | $50,000 |
| The New- Land Foundation, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $48,000 |
| The Prentice Foundation, Inc. | Wilmington, DE | $47,000 |
| Lawrence Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $45,000 |
| Merck Family Fund | Milton Village, MA | $44,986 |
| Minneapolis Jewish Federation | Hopkins, MN | $42,500 |
| Earthshare | Washington, DC | $42,126 |
| The Community Foundation Of Western North Carolina | Asheville, NC | $40,500 |
| The Streisand Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $40,500 |
| The Orchard Foundation | Charlestown, MA | $40,000 |
| Edwards Mother Earth Foundation | Wilmington, DE | $40,000 |
| Ludington, Inc. | Roanoke, VA | $40,000 |
| Threshold Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 |
| TOTAL | $56,704,991 |