Institutionalizing delay

Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations Robert J. Brulle

The overwhelming majority of the philanthropic support comes from conservative foundations.

Over the 2003–2010 period, they provided more than $78 million in funding to CCCM organizations.

In effect, these two philanthropic foundations form a black box that conceals the identity of contributors to various CCCM organizations.

Donor Trust/Capital increased dramatically from only 3.3 % in 2003 to 23.7 % in 2010.

more than one third (36 %–26/71) of 501 C3 and C4 CCCM organizations obtain more than 90 % of their income from undisclosed sources.

funding by the Scaife Affiliated Foundations, the second largest funder of CCCM organizations, also declined from 14 % in 2003 to just under 6 % in 2010.

Although the correspondence is suggestive of an effort to conceal funding of the CCCM by these foundations, it is impossible to determine for certain whether or not ExxonMobil and the Koch Foundations continue to fund CCCM organizations via Donors Trust/Capital or direct corporate contributions.

a Koch run foundation, the Knowledge and Progress Fund, initiated a pattern of making large grants to Donors Trust in 2008.

Since the majority of the organizations are multiple focus organizations, not all of this income was devoted to climate change activities.