WRI 2019 Funding Commitments
This list totals just over $117M, which represents 90% of funds raised in FY19. The text associated with each donor describes the major bodies of work supported and may represent multiple contributions.
Donors who provided total contributions between $500,000 and higher in Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (DGIS)
$23,080,000
Support for technical assistance and capacity building for NDC Partnership member countries on NDC and SDG implementation; core support to P4G (Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030); core support for implementation of WRI's 2018 - 2022 Strategic Plan
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ)
$13,271,808
Support for technical assistance and capacity building for NDC Partnership member countries on NDC and SDG implementation; core support for AFR100, the Global Commission on Adaptation, and PACE
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU)
$9,717,466.90
Building capacity of government institutions in India, Fiji and Guatemala to enable the creation of robust project pipelines that advance NDC implementation; Support to restore 20 million hectares of degraded land in the Caribbean and Latin America; Planning and Building Climate Friendly Cities workshop
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
$9,559,266
Global Forest Watch; New Climate Economy; Cities for Forests
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida)
$8,655,960.43
P4G (Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030); core support for implementation of WRI's 2018 - 2022 Strategic Plan; NDC Partnership; New Climate Economy
U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)
$6,579,803
Forest and timber trade transparency and development of processes and practices for government and private sector accounatability regarding forests management and land use decisions; support for the development of a FOLU Action Tracker and new Coalition engagment in sub-Saharn Africa; Supporting the development and knowledge dissemination of the synthesis report of World Resources report series, Toward a More Equal City
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
$5,785,400
Global Forest Watch
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
$3,664,729.60
Core support for implementation of WRI's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan.
The Tilia Fund
$1,550,000
Forest Legality Initiative
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
$1,501,019
Friends of Ocean Action; core support for WRI Oceans
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
$1,500,000
Support for implementation of China's middle and long-term ambitions under 2050 climate strategy
Good Energies Foundation
$1,494,863
Global Forest Watch; Clean energy access in India
IKEA Foundation
$1,346,439
Support for work on Paris Agreement rulebook completion, NDC enhancement, and climate finance
European Climate Foundation
$1,291,011
Support for the Global Covenant of Mayor’s Data Portal for Cities; analysis for The Coalition of Urban Transitions global flagship report; Support for WRI's participation in the International Climate Politics (ICP) Hub; support for Clean Energy Investment Accelerator work in Indonesia and Vietnam
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$1,291,000
Support for research on development and deployment of carbon removal technologies; Governor's Climate Unit; U.S.-China Track II Dialogue on Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development; making the procurement of e-buses more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective in Beijing and beyond
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
$1,126,000
Support for NDC Partnership
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands
$1,098,500
Core funding for the Global Commission on Adaptation
FEMSA Foundation
$1,005,007
Natural infrastructure investment and policy recommendations for urban green-gray water solutions; support for Circular Economy and WRI Mexico
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
$1,000,000
Support for the Global Commission on Adaptation with a focus on agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
$900,000
Global Forest Watch
Shell Foundation
$850,000
Support for Integrated Transport Cities (ITC), a project to demonstrate and support the path to sustainable mobility in cities through the integration of the public, private and informal transport solutions
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
$830,000
Support for electrification planning in Tanzania and off-grid electricity planning tools and analysis
UK Department for International Development for Indonesia
$772,811
Support for the Low Carbon Development for Indonesia (LCDI) project; Core support for Finance Center work with a focus on encouraging sustainable finance considerations in BRI and multilateral development banks
UPS Foundation
$750,000
Support for Science Based Targets Initiative and net zero guidance; Greenhouse Gas Protocol tool updates; research on renewable natural gas as an alternative and renewable energy source; and, research to understand infrastructure requirements for electric vehcile loads on grids
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$720,000
Support for the New Economy for Brazil project
Climate and Land Use Alliance
$674,375
Research report on overlaps between natural resource concessions and community lands; Cool Food Pledge; Cool Forests for a Hot Climate publication
Climateworks Foundation
$650,000
Analysis of aggregate reports on nonstate and subnational climate mitigation efforts; Assessment of progress towards climate action activities in limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius; Funding for New Urban Mobility Initiative (NUMO); Ocean-based carbon removal; support for Cool Food Pledge
Germanwatch
$641,055
Aligning development finance from Multilateral Development Banks with the Paris Climate Agreement
United Nations Development Programme
$630,000
Tehchnical support for land-use planning policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Stategy of the United Kingdom (BEIS) $607,530 Support to provide regulatory and technical inputs for Colombia´s fuel economy initiative
Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust
$600,000
General support for the Climate Program
Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC)
$534,448
Support for WRI's participation in the Partnership to Strengthen Transparency for co-Innovation (PaSTI)
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
$500,000
Science Based Targets Initiative
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
$500,000
Support for work toward clean energy transition in the Indian state of Tamil Nandu
Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Fund
$500,000
To support analysis, outreach, and education for clean energy transition
Donors who provided total contributions between $500,000 - $100,000 in Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
$471,983
Parched Power analyses in southern Europe, northern Africa, Mediterranean region, and central Asia
The Windward Fund
$450,000
Support to map the state of public water management and develop the first open-source geodatabase of public water management information for the US and Northern Mexico
Acacia Conservation Fund
$450,000
General unrestricted support; general support for WRI Brasil
Duke University
$401,553
Support for Global Energy Data Commons pilot
Ministry of the Environment and Energy of Sweden $360,918 Support for Coalition for Urban Transitions and New Climate Economy
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia
$360,200
NDC Partnership; Climate Resilience Practice; ClimateWatch; and Greenhouse Gas Protocol
The Alexander Foundation
$350,000
Unrestricted support
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
$350,000
Support to establish WRI Data Lab; General support for WRI Resource Watch
Open Society Foundations
$350,000
Support for Environmental Democracy Practice; Escazu Agreement
Oak Foundation
$350,000
Better Buying Lab; Cool Food Pledge
Laudes Foundation
$348,036
Tomorrow's Markets
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
$345,366.10
Support to the Coalition for Urban Transitions (CUT); To work with InsuResilience Global Partnership on compiling a lessons learned report on climate risk insurance mechanisms
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
$300,000
High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy
National Geographic Society
$300,000
Development of global data approaches to understanding urban change
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands
$300,000
Champions 12.3
Carbon Disclosure Project, North America
$277,200
Core funding for the Science Based Targets Initiative
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
$275,667
Green Climate Fund; development of a Provincial Forest Landscape Restoration Strategy in South Kivu
American Forests
$255,000
To strengthen U.S. state capacity to mitigate and sequester carbon through natural and working lands
Rockefeller Foundation
$250,000
Support for two publications on Food Loss and Waste that seek to consolidate a global narrative about the issue and share new quantitative evidence on effective action
Bank of America
$250,000
Renewal funding in support of the finance center (to assess the physical risks of climate change); and the Business Center (to ensure corporate climate goals are aligned with climate policy)
Arconic Foundation
$250,000
Supported the development of a global capacity development supply-side market analysis
Linden Trust for Conservation
$250,000
Assess carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and approaches for impact at scale and identify policy advocacy priorities for scaling technologies; Support for research and engagement activities to promote federal policies that will advance technological and natural carbon removal in the US; Support for research on and engagement activities that promote a carbon pricing system in the US
The Walmart Foundation
$230,000
Support for WRI's Food Loss & Waste initiative
DOEN Foundation
$225,363
Funding for the second iteration of the Africa Land Accelerator
3M
$225,000
Support for corporate water stewardship via the Aqueduct Alliance and membership in WRI's Corporate Consultative Group to advance corporate sustainability; support for the scoping phase to develop a guide to inform chemical sector companies pathway to setting a Science Based Target
German Development Institute
$223,000
Support for appraisal mission for project which will contribute to the deep mitigation of emissions in urban areas by creating and sustaining new actor constellations at local, national and transnational levels; trigger new urban governance frameworks that leverage rapid transformative change towards zero-carbon and inclusive cities in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
Cargill, Incorporated
$215,012
Funding to establish an ambitious reduction target for its scope 3 GHG target and support to develop agribusiness guidance on quantifying/reporting on farm level food loss and waste; To develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
Environmental Protection Agency of Sweden
$211,020.36
General support for New Climate Economy project
Spring Point Partners
$208,000
Support for the development of a Joint Benefits Authority (JBA) in San Francisco, an innovative governance and financing mechanism that provides a new way for municipal governments and service providers to scale up green infrastructure in the face of climate change, and provide essential; services to underserved communicates in urban envrionments..
The World Bank
$200,000
EDP to apply to OGP Trust Fund for climate work stream
Wilmar International Limited
$200,000
Support to develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
U.S. Department of Agriculture/U.S. Forest Service
$200,000
Assessment of the costs and flood risk reduction benefits, or other water related resource concerns, of forest protection, restoration, and sustainable management in the Monongahela National Forest and adjacent areas
The Kresge Foundation
$200,000
Advance the Joint Benefits Authority in the City and County of San Francisco
Sime Darby Berhad
$200,000
To develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
Sall Family Foundation
$200,000
General unrestricted support
Golden Agri-Resources
$200,000
To develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
Ford Foundation
$200,000
Core support for Sustainable Investing Initiative
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
$190,000
To develop methods, data and tools that will enable communities to include forest/trees in GHG inventories
Green Climate Fund
$184,992
Funding to assess and improve the Green Climate Fund's NAP Readiness Programme
The Nature Conservancy
$182,356
Support a Reforestation Accelerator in India and the development of the forest economy and PES in Brazil
National Environment Agency of Singapore
$175,535
Mulago Foundation
$150,000
General support for Global Forest Watch
Embassy of the United States of America in China
$150,000
U.S.-China Regulatory Cooperation in Combatting Illegal Logging and Associated Trade
Alcoa Foundation
$150,000
Funding to support the development of SBT guidance for the aluminum sector
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
$140,204
Support for the development of a set of strategic tools and resources to support the inclusivity component of the climate action planning process
Bunge Loders Croklaan
$140,000
To develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
David K. Smoot Sustainability of Life on Earth Fund
$143,895
General support the Global Restoration Initiative; General unrestricted support
L'Oreal U.S.A
$125,000
To develop a scope of work and cost estimate to evaluate watershed stewardship opportunities and advise the implementation of stewardship activities at select US facilities
Ernesto Bertarelli Foundation
$124,090
Support for Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation's International Sustainability Unit
Uber Technologies, Inc.
$122,000
Support for advisory services.
ADM Capital Foundation
$120,000
Support for “Hong Kong 2050 Is Now”, an initiative to inspire ambition and mobilize action to move Hong Kong towards long-term carbon neutrality and set an example for how the city could mitigate the risks of climate change
Shell
$115,592
Support for PACE secretariat
Heineken
$115,592
Support for PACE secretariat
Department of Communications Climate Action and Environment of Ireland
$113,455
Support for NDC Partnership
Wildlife Conservation Society
$111,897.30
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
$101,245
Support for Climate Watch — Climate Data, Tools and Capacity Building for Climate Action
Unilever
$100,000
To develop a new radar-based alert system for detecting deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia
The Summit Foundation
$100,000
To arm cities with the information they need and prepare them for the next-level conversations needed toward agreeing on feasible and equitable pathways to 100% clean energy.
Newmont Goldcorp Corporation
$100,000
A portfolio assessment applying the Cost of Water Stewardship dataset to Newmont's operations to identify priority locations and activities for Newmont to actively participate in water stewardship in their operating basins
IKEA of Sweden AB
$100,000
To support the development of Greenhouse Gas Protocol guidance on carbon removals, bioenergy, land use, and land use change
Global Environment Facility
$100,000
To support the creation of an inter-institutional research group called the Expert Group of the High-level Panel for Building a Sustainable Ocean Economy
Coca-Cola Enterprises
$100,000
Water Risk Assessment work for The Coca Cola Company
