The Foundation for a Healthy Planet

The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. The Foundation is the independent fiscal sponsor of Sierra Club’s charitable environmental programs.

Goals & Impact

Solve the Climate Crisis
Solve the Climate Crisis

Primarily through a successful transition to a resource-efficient, clean energy economy that better serves people and nature.

Secure Lands Protections
Secure Lands Protections

For public lands and waters, promote healthy ecosystems and communities, and fight for clean air and water.

Get People Outdoors
Get People Outdoors

For more people to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet by supporting programs and policies that reach across economic, cultural, and community lines to get people outdoors.

Build a Movement
Build a Movement

Build a diverse, inclusive environmental movement that reflects and represents today’s American public, and prioritizes important connections between environmental health and social justice.

Shifting Trillions
Shift Trillions for Climate Justice

Leading the shift of trillions of dollars from an extractive and exploitative fossil fuel economy to a restorative, renewable energy economy that better serves people and nature.

Foundation News

2023 Annual Report: Gaining Ground
The Sierra Club Foundation is at the forefront of catalyzing positive change, from our successful investments in energy justice projects to our efforts in strengthening the connection between people and nature, Our 2023 annual report highlights the…
Sierra Club Foundation Files Shareholder Resolution Asking Goldman Sachs to Disclose Financial Risks of its Energy Financing
The Sierra Club Foundation (SCF) announced the filing of a shareholder resolution at Goldman Sachs, requesting that the financial institution conduct a rigorous assessment of the material risks of its energy financing activities on its business.
Capitalism Reimagined
Fiduciaries Have a Duty of Care to their Investors and to the World, authored by Sierra Club Foundation Shifting Trillions Director, Pedro Henriques da Silva, was recently published
Sierra Club Foundation Earns Top Rating from Charity Navigator for Fourteenth Consecutive Year
Charity Navigator again awarded the Sierra Club Foundation four stars in its annual assessment, the highest rating a charity can achieve. This marks the fourteenth consecutive four-star rating for the Foundation, an honor we attribute to the…