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    Sierra Club Foundation

    Mission

    The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. We partner with individual and institutional donors to align financial resources with strategic outcomes, provide flexible funding for innovation, build capacity in the environmental movement, and create partnerships with a broad spectrum of allied organizations around shared values and goals. As the fiscal sponsor of the charitable programs of the Sierra Club, we provide resources to it and other nonprofit organizations to support scientific, educational, literary, organizing, advocacy, and legal programs that further our goals.

    Proceed with Caution — Reported Other Material Lawsuit

    On January 31, 2026, DC News Now reported on the operations of Sierra Club Foundation in an article titled, "A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission." For more information, please see DC News Now article.

    For more information about our alerts methodology, see here.

    Oakland CA | EIN: 94-6069890
    Profile managed by nonprofit | Is this your nonprofit?
    501(c)(3) organization
    2101 Webster Street, Suite 1350,
    Oakland CA 94612
    https://www.sierraclubfoundation.org
    415-995-1780

    Sierra Club Foundation

    Mission

    The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. We partner with individual and institutional donors to align financial resources with strategic outcomes, provide flexible funding for innovation, build capacity in the environmental movement, and create partnerships with a broad spectrum of allied organizations around shared values and goals. As the fiscal sponsor of the charitable programs of the Sierra Club, we provide resources to it and other nonprofit organizations to support scientific, educational, literary, organizing, advocacy, and legal programs that further our goals.

    Proceed with Caution — Reported Other Material Lawsuit

    On January 31, 2026, DC News Now reported on the operations of Sierra Club Foundation in an article titled, "A former Sierra Club Foundation director sues over internal racism that he says hinders its mission." For more information, please see DC News Now article.

    For more information about our alerts methodology, see here.

    Oakland CA | EIN: 94-6069890
    Profile managed by nonprofit | Is this your nonprofit?
    501(c)(3) organization
    2101 Webster Street, Suite 1350,
    Oakland CA 94612
    https://www.sierraclubfoundation.org
    415-995-1780

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    • Additional Information
    Evaluation area metrics
    ScoreMetric
    100%
    Program Expense Ratio:86.04% of total expenses
    100%
    Liabilities to Assets Ratio:14.25% of total assets
    100%
    Working Capital:1.65 years of reserves
    100%
    Fundraising Efficiency:$0.14 to raise a dollar
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