11th Hour Project (Schmidt Family Fdn)
Palo Alto, USA
Renewable Energy · Food · Oceans +1
💰 $25K–$100K – $2M–$10M
Schmidt Family Fdn program; FAQ explicitly states they do not accept unsolicited proposals or LOIs.
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Active Impact Investments
San Francisco,USA
Clean Energy · Transportation · Sustainable Food +5
💰 $500K–$2M✓ Early-stage
Canadian early-stage climate VC; submit pitch via website.
Aera VC
New York,USA
Biodiversity · Carbon Capture · CCUS +5
💰 $500K–$2M✓ Early-stage
Pre-seed climate VC; pitch via website.
Amazon Climate Pledge Fund
Seattle, USA
Decarbonization Across Logistics · Energy · Materials
💰 $2M–$10M – $250M+
Amazon's $2B+ strategic CVC; deal sourcing, no public application — companies typically referred via network.
Bezos Earth Fund
Washington DC, USA
Agriculture & Rural Development · Climate Change · Energy +4
💰 $500K–$2M – $50M–$250M
Explicitly does not accept unsolicited proposals; periodic competitions like AI for Climate & Nature Grand Challenge are the only open route.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Education · Financial Services · Lending And Investments +5
💰 $500K–$2M – $50M–$250M✓ Open
Most grants by invitation; runs periodic Grand Challenges open calls with specific deadlines.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
New York, USA
Beyond Coal/Oil & Gas · Sustainable Cities · Ocean
💰 $100K–$500K – $10M–$50M
Does not accept unsolicited proposals; ~100 competitive programmes (e.g. Mayors Challenge, Local Leaders Climate Awards) handled via apply.bloomberg.org/submit when open.
Blue Moon Fund
Charlottesville, USA
Conservation · Sustainable Communities
💰 $25K–$100K – $500K–$2M
Sunset/wound down active grantmaking; legacy site only.
BMW i Ventures
Mountain View, USA
Sustainable Mobility · Materials
💰 $500K–$2M – $10M–$50M
BMW's mobility/sustainability CVC; pitch via website contact form.
Breakthrough Energy
Kirkland, USA
Climate Change · Economic Development · Energy +3
💰 $2M–$10M – $50M–$250M
Bill Gates-led; Ventures invests by sourcing, Catalyst funds large projects, Fellows runs by-invitation cohorts.
Bullitt Foundation
Seattle, USA
Urban Sustainability · Climate · Ecosystem
💰 $25K–$100K – $100K–$500K
Wound down general environmental grantmaking; now focused only on Bullitt Environmental Prize.
Cedar Tree Foundation
Boston, USA
Sustainable Agriculture · Environmental Health
💰 $25K–$100K – $100K–$500K
By-invitation only; does not accept unsolicited proposals per published policy.
Chevron Technology Ventures
Houston, Texas, United States
Finance · Financial Services · Information Technology +5
💰 $2M–$10M
Chevron's strategic CVC across energy/decarbonization; deal sourcing model.
Climate Capital
San Francisco, USA
Stage Agnostic Climate
💰 $25K–$100K – $500K–$2M✓ Early-stage✓ Open
US early-stage climate VC writing $10-25k checks via AngelList rolling 'Network Fund'; pitch via website contact / submission form.
ClimateWorks Foundation
San Francisco, USA
Climate Mitigation · Regranting · Sector Strategies
💰 $25K–$100K – $2M–$10M
Does not accept unsolicited grant proposals; occasional open RFPs (e.g. Adaptation & Resilience Fund) — sign up to newsletter for alerts.
DBL Partners
San Francisco, California, United States
CleanTech · Financial Services · Health Care +5
💰 $2M–$10M – $10M–$50M
Double-bottom-line impact VC; deal sourcing via network.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Environment)
New York, USA
Land Conservation · Climate · Ag
💰 $100K–$500K – $2M–$10M✓ Open
Most grants by invitation but accepts LOIs to Environment Program when no open mechanism; Climate-Smart Forests is current strategic priority; $100K-$1M.
East Ventures
Honolulu,USA
Sustainability · Climate Impact (Broad) · Decarbonization +1
💰 $100K–$500K – $10M–$50M✓ Early-stage
SE Asia VC; pitch via website.
Energy Foundation
San Francisco, USA
Clean Energy Policy
💰 $25K–$100K – $500K–$2M
U.S. Energy Foundation; explicitly does not accept unsolicited proposals/LOIs; $156M in 2023 grants to ~617 invited orgs; 30-yr clean energy policy partnership.
Energy Impact Partners
New York, New York, United States
Business Development · Finance · Financial Services +4
💰 $500K–$2M – $50M–$250M
Utility-backed energy-transition VC; submit pitch via website.
ExxonMobil (Low Carbon Solutions VC)
Spring, TX, USA
Carbon Capture · Hydrogen · Biofuels
💰 $2M–$10M – $50M–$250M
ExxonMobil's low-carbon solutions investments; deal sourcing model, no public application.
Factor[e] Ventures
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Agriculture · Energy · Logistics +5
💰 $500K–$2M – $2M–$10M✓ Early-stage
Emerging-markets climate VC; pitch via website.
Fifth Wall Ventures Management LLC
Detroit,USA
Software · Hardware · Finance +4
💰 $2M–$10M – $10M–$50M
Real estate/built-environment climate VC; deal sourcing model.
First Star Ventures
Boston, USA
Compute × Real World (Techbio · Climate)
💰 $100K–$500K – $500K–$2M✓ Early-stage✓ Open
US deep-tech/climate seed VC; pitch via website Contact form; invests in pre-seed and seed rounds.
FJ Labs Inc
United States
Marketplaces · Climate Adjacent
💰 $100K–$500K – $2M–$10M
Generalist marketplace VC; submit pitch via website form.
Galvanize Climate Solutions
Oakland,USA
Multi Strategy Climate (VC + Real Assets)
💰 $10M–$50M
Climate growth/PE platform (Tom Steyer/Katie Hall); deal sourcing model.
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Washington DC, USA
Biodiversity · Climate · Land Degradation +1
💰 $25K–$100K – $10M–$50M✓ Early-stage
Funds only via 18 GEF Agencies; civil society can access via UNDP-implemented Small Grants Programme (sgp.undp.org) up to $50k per project.
Global Greengrants Fund
Boulder, USA
Grassroots Environment & Climate
💰 <$25K✓ Early-stage
Does not accept unsolicited proposals; uses participatory model with ~200 regional advisors who identify grassroots grantees ($500-$5,000 typical).
Google.org
Mountain View, USA
AI For Climate · Just Transition
💰 $100K–$500K – $10M–$50M✓ Early-stage
No general open process; periodic Impact Challenges/AI for Climate calls; separate Google Ad Grants programme runs rolling for nonprofits.
Heinz Endowments
Pittsburgh, USA
Sustainability · Energy · Justice
💰 $100K–$500K – $500K–$2M✓ Open
Accepts online LOIs for SW Pennsylvania-focused work; reviews quarterly.
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