The Pipeline by Robert Morton 01 Oct, 2020
In our last article, we detailed how a wealthy family established an offshore trust, and funneled tens of millions of dollars from that trust to a 501(c)(3) called The Sea Change Foundation. This “charitable entity†is a major hub of funding for the climate-change alarmists.
In this article, we’ll trace where the Sea Change Foundation directs these “charitable fundsâ€, and what each of its recipients do with the money. We shall quickly discover that the money trail becomes a tangled web of Leftist organizations all dedicated the climate alarmism in various forms.
Sea Change’s Form 990-PF for the year ending July 2011 describes its activities in appropriately vague terms: “Private foundation dedicated to achieving meaningful social impact through leveraged philanthropy that address the most pressing problems facing the world today.â€
An entity known as “The Energy Foundation†located in – where else? – San Francisco is a favored recipient of funds from Sea Change. There were 16 separate grants made to The Energy Foundation totaling over $17 million. The “purpose of funds†is sometimes described as to “promote energy efficiency,†sometimes as “educate public about climate and clean energy,†and other times as “reduce reliance on high carbon energy.â€
For the period ending July 2015, some 33 separate grants were made to The Energy Foundation (out of 79 total), for more than $16 million. At least this year, the disclosure was much more transparent. Every single grant’s purpose was listed as “mitigate climate change.†Every year it’s pretty much the same pattern.
Sea Change isn’t the only benefactor of The Energy Foundation. The entity receives hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars from other organizations. The ClimateWorks Foundation, itself the recipient of over $870 million in contributions between 2010 and 2018, sent $165 million to The Energy Foundation between 2010 and 2012.
More:
https://the-pipeline.org/the-tangled-web-of-climate-change-funders/
