WRI Annual Report 2018-19: Thanking Our Donors
Thanking Our Donors
Each year as we prepare our Annual Report, we look back with deep gratitude at how the vision and generosity of our donors make our accomplishments possible. We value all our donors and are very proud to recognize the diverse group of supporters who share our commitment to a more sustainable and prosperous world for all.
European government partners continue to be among our largest donors, providing both institutional and programmatic support. We are particularly grateful to the governments of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden for their crucial continued support and core funding to WRI. This funding allows us to be mission-focused to address long-term challenges while also helping to fund nascent areas of work and new ideas. In short, it underpins our ability to deliver transformative outcomes to advance our common agenda on poverty alleviation and sustainable economic development.
We are also grateful to the governments of Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom for their generous support to WRI’s programmatic work on Food, Forests, Cities, Climate, Finance, Water and the Ocean, as well as a range of impactful global delivery platforms including: Partnership for Green Growth and the Global Goals (P4G); Global Commission on Adaptation and the Global Center on Adaptation; the NDC Partnership; Friends of Ocean Action and the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy; Water, Peace and Security Initiative; Champions 12.3 mobilizing action of food loss and waste; African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) and the 20x20 restoration initiative in Latin America; Resource Watch; and New Climate Economy and the Coalition for Urban Transitions.
Foundation support, our second-largest source of funds, remains strong. We are pleased to recognize two foundations providing flexible program grants. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation approved a multi-year grant for WRI’s climate work in China, India, and the U.S. The Oak Foundation approved a core grant for work in China, India and Brazil, and on international climate governance.
Stephen M. Ross Philanthropies continued to provide vital core support for the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and enabled WRI to launch the New Urban Mobility Alliance, or “NUMO,” which channels tech-based disruptions in urban transport to build more sustainable and joyful cities.
Our work with cities offers numerous opportunities to collaborate with our corporate partners, with major support from the Citi Foundation, FedEx, the Shell Foundation and the Toyota Mobility Foundation. We are pleased to recognize new gifts from the IKEA Foundation for energy access work in Africa and from Microsoft’s AI for Earth team to create a new innovation fund housed at WRI to provide support for early-stage projects that seek to leverage artificial intelligence. WRI’s Corporate Consultative Group now stands at 35 members, which brings together the best minds in corporate sustainability to advance business practices.
WRI also received a record number of contributions from individual and family foundation donors, many of whom are members of WRI’s new Sustainer’s Circle and provide critically important general support.
WRI’s work is made possible through the generosity of a growing number of partners and supporters who share our goals and objectives. Our purpose in each relationship is to fulfill our mission, guided by our institutional values. We neither seek nor accept financial support that would undermine those values. For example, WRI fiercely guards its independence through its peer review of knowledge products and prohibits staff from manipulating research or suppressing research results because they are inconsistent with a desired outcome.
Donations listed in this annual report include revenue received 10/1/17–1/15/19 and older grants still open as of 10/1/17. Due to space limitations, we only include donations of $1,000 and more.
Major Donors ($750,000+)
Acacia Conservation Fund
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bloomberg Philanthropies
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Cargill, Incorporated
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Citi Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy of the United Kingdom
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia
DOB Ecology
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Environmental Protection Agency of Sweden
European Climate Foundation
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ)
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU)
FedEx Corporation
Ford Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Global Environment Facility
Good Energies Foundation
Google Inc.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Hivos (Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries)
IKEA Foundation
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Irish Aid—Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (DGIS)
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
Oak Foundation
Pact
PepsiCo, Inc.
Michael Polsky Family
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Stephen M. Ross Philanthropies
Shell Foundation
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust
The Tilia Fund
Toyota Mobility Foundation
U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)
U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UKFCO)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Department of State
The World Bank
World Economic Forum
Anonymous (1)
Global Board Co-Chair Jim Harmon and Global Board Member Stephen M. Ross at the April 2018 Board dinner.
Strategic Core Funding Partners
Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Irish Aid—Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (DGIS)
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Governments and Multilateral Organizations
Program/Project Partners
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC)
Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy of the United Kingdom (BEIS)
Department of Communications, Climate Action & Environment of Ireland
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia
Environmental Protection Agency of Sweden
European Commission
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ)
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Global Environment Facility
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Italian Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Jiangsu Information Center
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands
Ministry of Environmental Protection of the PRC
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands
National Environment Agency of Singapore
Open Government Partnership
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)
U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UKFCO)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
United Nations Capital Development Fund
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
The World Bank
Donor Profile
The Good Energies Foundation
The Good Energies Foundation, a significant partner in WRI’s efforts to address urgent global challenges, supports programs focusing on access to clean energy and protection of tropical forests as a way to ease poverty.
The foundation focuses on rural areas with low rates of electrification, primarily in India and sub-Saharan Africa. It supports programs that bring distributed electricity generation to underserved communities, promote policy and unlock new sources of capital for renewable energy.
The Good Energies Forests and Land Use Programme targets tropical deforestation and promotes forest landscape restoration, covering the entire equatorial greenbelt, including the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and Indonesia.
WRI is honored to be among its partners.
Foundations
$750,000+
Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation
DOB Ecology
European Climate Foundation
Ford Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Oak Foundation
$500,000—$749,999
Climate and Land Use Alliance
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Energy Foundation
Good Energies Foundation
KR Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Anonymous (1)
$100,000–$499,999
Nathan Cummings Foundation
DOEN Foundation
Energy Foundation China
FIA Foundation
Foundation for the Global Compact
Mulago Foundation
Pisces Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rockefeller Foundation
Swedish Postcode Lottery
$10,000–$99,999
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Hollomon Price Foundation
United Nations Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
Wellcome Trust
Rebecca Moore, Director of Engineering, Google Earth, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach, talking about the Power of Data at the launch of Resource Watch.
Donor Profile
Cargill, Incorporated
Having joined WRI’s Corporate Consultative Group in 2016, Cargill engages a wide range of WRI’s teams on critical sustainability issues that are important to the planet and Cargill’s business. On climate, Cargill works with WRI’s Science Based Targets team to ensure the company’s approach to reducing emissions is in line with best practice. WRI’s experts are also engaging key members of the Cargill team on the water- food nexus, as well as devising best practice for evaluating context-based targets for water use. Leveraging WRI’s Global Forest Watch platform, our organizations are working to help Cargill meet its commitments to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain. Finally, with a clear eye on ending food loss and waste, Cargill works with WRI’s Food team on this important topic.
Corporations
Strategic Relationships
Bank of America
C&A Foundation
Cargill, Incorporated
Citi Foundation
FedEx Corporation
Generation Foundation
Google Inc.
IKEA Foundation
Microsoft
Shell Foundation
Toyota Mobility Foundation
UPS Foundation
Supporters
Angeleno Group
Blistex Inc.
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation
Dentons
Hansen Technologies
IBM
Terra Alpha Investments LLC
2018-2019 Corporate Consultative Group Members
Abbott Laboratories
Baker McKenzie
Bank of America
The Bank of New York Mellon
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Caesars Entertainment Corporation
Cargill, Incorporated
Caterpillar Inc.
Citigroup Inc.
Colgate-Palmolive Company
DuPont
eBay Inc.
Edison Energy, LLC
Equinor ASA
Exelon Corporation
FedEx Corporation
General Motors Company
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Google Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls International
Kimberly-Clark
Mars, Incorporated
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
Shell
Tetra Pak International
Tyson Foods, Inc.
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Walmart
The Walt Disney Company
Weyerhaeuser Company
Xylem Inc.
Matching and Workplace Giving
American Express Charitable Gift Fund
American International Group, Inc.
Barr Foundation
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation
Dodge and Cox Gift Matching Program
EarthShare
Generation Foundation
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gift Program
Google Inc.
Hulu, LLC
JLA Public Involvement
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
World Bank Community Connections Fund
Program/Project Partners
Abbott Laboratories
Adobe, Inc.
Alcoa Foundation
American Electric Power
Arconic Foundation
Berkshire Hathaway Energy
C&A Corporation
Citi Foundation Brazil
CMS Energy Corporation
Colgate-Palmolive Company
eBay Inc
Ecolab
Eileen Fisher, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
FEMSA Foundation
FMO—Netherlands Development Finance Company
General Motors Company
Google Inc.
Hilton Worldwide
Honda Motor Co., Ltd
IBM Corporation
IKEA International A/S
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls International plc
Kimberly-Clark Foundation
Lenzing
Levi-Strauss and Co.
Mars, Incorporated
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Mondelēz International
Nestlé Waters North America
Nike
Panera Bread
PepsiCo, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
Quorn
REI
Sainsburys
Shell
Sodexo
Southern Company Generation
Standish
Target Corporation
Tennessee Valley Utility
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
The VanGuard Group
The Volvo Research and Education Foundations
Walmart & Walmart Foundation
Xcel Energy Inc.
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Individuals and Family Foundations
$500,000+
Acacia Conservation Fund
Pirojsha Godrej Foundation
Stephen M. Ross Philanthropies
Roger and Vicki Sant
Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust
The Tilia Fund
Anonymous (1)
$100,000–$499,999
David Blood
The Moses Ginsberg Family Foundation
Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
Linden Trust for Conservation
Minerva Foundation
Michael Polsky Family
Porticus Foundation
Sall Family Foundation
SEM Charitable Trust
Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Fund
Anonymous (1)
$10,000–$99,999
John E. Bartlett
Frances G. Beinecke / Frances Beinecke Elston Fund
Elizabeth Belfer
Afsaneh M. Beschloss
Nathaniel Chamberlin
William A. Chen
Cox Family Fund
Tim Disney
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Timothy Dunn/Black Dog Foundation
Pam and Peter Flaherty
Steve and Heather Fredette
Maria Gea and John Niccolai
Charlie Gibson
The Goulder Family Foundation
Peter Graham and Heidi Drymer
John and Nancy Hammond
James A. Harmon
Andrew W. and Lauran Jack
Chris and Lisa Kaneb Fund
Herbert and Katherine Kurth Religious Foundation, Inc.
The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation
The Matz Family Fund
Jeff and Ashley McDermott
Wilhelm Merck and Nonie Brady
Preston and Carol Smith Miller
Leo Model Foundation
Rose L. and Morris Kraft Estate
The Morrow Family Fund
Myers Family Charitable Fund
Thomas A. Nowak, M.D.
The Prospect Hill Foundation
David W. Richardson, CFA
Jennifer Scully-Lerner
Liesbet and Andrew Steer
Ross Strohbehn Gift Fund
Lee and Dorothy Thomas
Clint and Sandi Vince Charitable Foundation
Benjamin Wagner
Robert Zoellick
Anonymous (4)
Sustainer’s Circle Members ($1,000–$9,999)
The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation
The Alaska Lanser Giving Fund
Mark and Meg Alberts
Bradley E. Alger
Eleanor and Dean Anderson
Eileen and Lowell Aptman
Arthur and Elaine Aron
Duncan Austin
Steven Averbuch
Hattie Babbitt / Babbitt Family Charitable Fund
Benjamin M. Baker Charitable Fund
Jessica and Geoffrey Baldwin
Richard Bamberger
Tiago Bandeira
Manish Bapna
Steven Barker
Rohit Bhayana
The Jeffrey and Julie Blake Charitable Fund
Robert O. Blake, Jr.
Sylvia Blake
Nora Bloch
Tomas Bok and Florentien de Ruiter
Edward Brittenham
Clair Brown
Richard and Alison Bruce
Laurie and Brice Buchanan
Judy Buechner Advised Fund
Jefferson Bull
Donna and Jay Bushnell
Kenneth Chang and Julia Espel
Tiffany Clay
David and Kira Connaughton
Elizabeth Cook
Kathleen Cooper
Daniel Cruise
David Cushing and Jennifer Yang
N. Dahlin Giving Fund
Danem Foundation
Kathryn Deegan
Josephine F. de Give
Judith DeGraaf
Helen Dimos and Benjamin Oko
Michael DiPietro
Andrea Dodge
Philip Eck
The Louie and Terry Ehrlich Family Fund
Mark Engel
Lawrence Eyink and Susan Schulman
Adam Fass
The Burdick Faulkner Charitable Fund
Mary Fields
Mark Finley
Bonnie Fischer
John Fisher
Agnieszka Flizik
Richard Fromer
Fuller Family Foundation Raymond Gagne
Karen and Jeff Gawel
Judith Gayer
Susan Gerngross
Dr. Linda Gochfeld Charitable Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation
Millie Gorson
Gordan Casimir Gustafson
David and Kelly Hackett Foundation
Craig and Iben Hanson
Colin Hart
Teresa Hartle
Anita L. Hatanaka
The Margaret M. Hixon Fund
The Hollione Fund
Margaret VB. Hughes
Melissa Huther
Zeynep Imre
Hilary Jefferson
Charles and Phyllis Johnson
Jason Katz-Brown
Kendall Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Malorie and Siraj Khaliq
Steven Kramer
Michael and Anne Krepick Charitable Gift Fund
William A. Krug
Wayne and Kathy Kubick
Karl F. Kuhlmann
Lashof Family Giving Account
Mary Soon Lee and Andrew Moore
Lenfestey Family Foundation
Christina Leonard
Glenn Lopate
Joseph and Angela LoPresti
Thomas E. Lovejoy III
Nancy Lowe
Lawrence MacDonald
Jonathan Marshall
The Martin Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Juliana and Jonathan May
Thomas May
Allan D. McKelvie
Peter J. McLaughlin and Jane Kitchel McLaughlin Family Fund
Jane Meyer and Donald Wolfson
Carla Miller
Kathy and David Mislan
Sari Mintz and Gary Morrison
Aubert J. Mowry
Les Murphy
The Murray Family Foundation
Nesler Family Fund
Robert Newton
Christopher and Sara Oot
Richard W. Orser
Dr. Hal E. Ott
Linda Pardoe
Andrea Patineau
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Patton, Jr.
Andra Patterson
Salil Phadnis and Meghana Mudiyam
Lester Poretsky Family Foundation
David Porteous and Vicky Smith Account
Beth and Ted Powers-Johnson
Evan Purcell
John G. Rakocy
Janet and Kumar Ranganathan
Ryan Rasmussen
William and Elizabeth Reilly
Lizanne Reynolds
The Honorable Bill Richardson
Eleanore Richards
Robinhood Cove Fund of the Essex County Community Foundation
Ethan Roday
Machell Roller
David Rosenstein
Gillian Rowan
Roxbury Fund of the New York Community Trust
Michael and Pooja Rutberg
Kathy and Gary Salvner
Alison Sander
Tedd and Ella Saunders
The Schmitz-Fromherz Family Fund
Scholtes Family Charitable Fund
The Seltzer Family Foundation
M. A. Shepherd
Tad Shepperd
Amy and Jeffrey Silverman
Edith and Bruce Smart
Jane and Carl Smith
Robert and Heidi Smith
The Snider Foundation
Paul M. Spiegel
Michael Spiegelman
Jocelyn Starzak
Helga Tarver
Amy and Mark Tercek Foundation
David H. Thomas
Sue and John Tierney
Victor Torgrimson
Laura D. Tyson
Emily V. Wade
Patrick N. Wagner
June Wang
The Weill Family Foundation
Anne Wilkes
Gregory Todd Williams
The Winfield Foundation
Anita Winn
Christine and Andrew Winston / Winston Family Charitable Fund
Laura Woodland
George Yuen
L. Kenneth Zweig and Wendy Reed
Anonymous (31)
WRI Global Director Pam Flaherty with Jason Haggins, Executive Director of the Sall Family Foundation, at a WRI’s Spring 2018 Board and NCE Dinner in Washington, D.C.
Other Institutions
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
American Forest Foundation
Asia Pacific Economic Corporation
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme
Climate Focus Bangkok
Climate Justice Resilience Fund
DLA Piper
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
FMO—Netherlands Development Finance Company
Future Earth
Georgetown University
Green Hotels Association
Hivos (Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries)
Institute of International Education
London School of Economics and Political Science
National Geographic Society
The Nature Conservancy
Nature Kenya (The East Africa Natural History Society)
Network For Good
North Carolina State University
Ocean Doctor
Overseas Development Institute
Pact
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
ProForest
Pulse Canada
Rights and Resources Initiative
Save the Redwoods League
Stanford University
Terra Alpha Investments LLC
The Trust for Public Land
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Verra
Vital Strategies
West Virginia University
Wildlife Conservation Society
Winrock International Institute for Agriculture Development
Wisconsin Evans Scholars
World Economic Forum
World Wildlife Fund
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Anonymous (1)
Gifts-In-Kind
Baker & McKenzie
Carto
Dentons
Descartes Labs
Development Seed
Digital Globe
DLA Piper
Esri
Energy Advisory Board
FMO—Netherlands Development Finance Company
Future Earth
Google Inc.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Johnson Controls International plc
Levi-Strauss and Co.
Microsoft
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands
Municipality of The Hague
Population Services Kenya
Reed Smith LLP
Vizzuality