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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 183665" data-attributes="member: 605">There is about one non-profit for every 300 people in the U.S. They write grant requests to foundations. There are about one hundred thousand private foundations with about $700 Billion in assets.  The IRS requires that a USA-based foundation spend approximately 5 percent of its invested assets for grant making activities and operational costs. In most cases, 95 percent of a foundations’ endowment then remain invested to earn the financial return necessary to provide the foundation with the ability to make grants in perpetuity. Grant recipients can spend up to three percent on education. (propaganda)The Badlands Conservation Alliance is largely staff driven dependent upon foundation funding. They don't hold meetings where the membership meaningfully and democratically vote on resolutions creating policy or set the agenda. When a foundation gives a grant it expects return on investment. The Wilderness Society defunded BCA. John D. Rockefellers heirs sit on the board of The Wilderness Society. Why would an oil tycoon fund an enviro org? "Control." Everyone knows the story. Rockefeller went to Saudi Arabia in 1933 and formed a Corporation (ARAMCO) with the Sheik. Has anyone watched an oil tanker tie up to the off load station in the middle of the Hudson River next to Statten Island New York City? Load after load since 1933. A crazy amount of money.John D. senior had four grandsons and they operate Rockefeller Brothers Fund. A "Foundation Watch" report by Capitol Research Center has a page on their activities funding enviro orgs. I short clipped it to keep it short.<a href="http://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/pubs/pdf/FW0706.pdf" target="_blank">http://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/pubs/pdf/FW0706.pdf</a>Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund: The fortune amassed by John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of Standard Oil Company, is the stuff of legend. While the names of most of the 19th century Robber Barons are lost to public consciousness—railroad titans Edward Henry Harriman (remember that name) and Jay Gould come to mind— Rockefeller is still very much with us. The Rockefeller family over successive generations has been a powerful force in the world of philanthropy. Never opting for simplicity, the Rockefellers have devised many ways to support causes they favor. Together with his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. Rockefeller Sr. established the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. In 1940, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his six children set up the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Yet another entity, the Rockefeller Family Fund, was incorporated in 1967 by the fourth generation of Rockefellers, the grandchildren of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.     Active for decades in medicine, education, and civil rights, the Rockefeller Foundation didn’t get serious about funding environmental advocacy until the mid-1980s. One grantee, the Conservation Foundation, merged with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1990, enabling Rockefeller money to influence WWF’s international agenda, including projects dealing with wildlife, wetlands, tropical forests, and climate change. By then, William Reilly, the former president of the Conservation Foundation, was head of the EPA (under President George H.W. Bush) and WWF’s chairman of the board was Russell Train, EPA chief during the Carter administration. Reilly and Train exemplify the well-oiled revolving door between government, foundations and activist groups. The Rockefeller foundations are old hands at networking in the world of the rich and powerful.From the Fund’s New York City offices, Ross coordinated EGA activities until he left the foundation in 1999. EGA annual meetings have become important strategy sessions for the environmental movement. Besides the Fund, other foundation kingpins are Pew, Cummings, and Blue Moon (formerly the W. Alton Jones Foundation) as well as the Bullitt Foundation (Seattle), Surdna Foundation (New York), Beldon Fund (Washington, D.C.), and the Joyce Foundation (Chicago) (Obama was a board member of Joyce). Companies belonging to the EGA include IBM and the leisure and sports clothiers L.L. Bean and Patagonia, Inc.     The Rockefeller philanthropies are varied and not always altruistic. Early supporters of land conservation, they were late in coming to support environmental advocacy. But while they may stray on support for GM crops (and, earlier, on DDT use), they are pillars of support for modern environmentalism.   Environmental groups receiving grants from the Rockefeller Foundation from 2000 through 2003 include:* Environmental Law Institute, $778,933 * Conservation Law Foundation, $770,000 * World Resources Institute, $717,138 * Resources for the Future, $459,884     Environmental groups receiving support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund:* National Environmental Trust, 1997-2002, $1,950,000 * Friends of the Earth, 1994-2001, $1,427,500 * Natural Resources Defense Council, 1991-2001, $1,377,510 * Environmental Defense, 1997-2001, $994,363* Environmental Media Services, 1995-2001, $672,000 * Rainforest Action Network, 2000-2003, $600,000 * Greenpeace, 1997-2003, $780,000 * Sierra Club, 1995-2001, $710,000 * Earth Island Institute, 1995-2001, $562,400 * Environmental Working Group, 1990-2000, $560,000 * Wilderness Society, 1997-2000, $520,000PG said,When the Sierra Club has outlived its purpose or usefulness, the foundations will defund them.</blockquote>

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