Environmental
Grantmakers Association
55 Exchange Place,
Suite 405
NEW YORK, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 812-4260
Fax:
(212) 812-4299
Website:
http://www.ega.org
EIN: 20-8817646
Exempt since 2007
Self-description:
The Environmental Grantmakers Association (the "EGA") was
founded for the purposes of enhancing environmental philanthropy and
fostering ecological integrity, justice and environmental
stewardship. During 2007 EGA began its transition from operating as
a program under a fiscal sponsor [Rockefeller Family Fund] to an
independent organization.
Actual:
Originally,
an unincorporated networking organization of 12 foundations that
funded exclusively left-wing /
anti-corporate environmental causes. EGA operated from 1987 to 2007
from the office of
Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) which accepted grants as fiscal
sponsor for EGA under the
RFF tax-exemption. EGA's executive director was on the paid staff of RFF. EGA
remains part of the Council on Foundations-recognized Affinity
Group Network.
Background: The
Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) grew out of the Environmental Grantmakers Affinity Group of the
Council on Foundations (COF). In 1987, a small
group of environmental grantmakers met in Washington, D.C. to discuss common interests and
to learn about each other's specific programs. As a result of the
enthusiasm generated at this meeting, plans were made for future
meetings, grants lists exchanged, and a "directory" of foundation
program interests was published. Subsequent meetings
reaffirmed
this interest for increased communication among grantmakers through
the EGA.
Rise to power:
The EGA holds strategy meetings to
orchestrate funder programs for maximum damage to free enterprise
and individual liberties. In the late 1980s,
EGA members began coercing the recipients of "prescriptive" grants to
perform tasks and projects they would not otherwise have done,
giving rise to environmental group resentment. By 1992, EGA donors
had a stranglehold on environmental groups, dictating their policy
and intimidating them into a now-familiar submissive posture of "if
the donor is interested in it, we're interested in it." The EGA's
1992 annual meeting was a landmark in its rise to dominance over
America's environmental agenda.
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Environmental Grantmakers Association
1992 Annual Meeting Tapes
The EGA's
annual retreats are strategy planning sessions during
which grantmakers lay their plans for the coming year.
The classic gathering was in 1992, when key foundation
leaders laid out their intentions to hijack the
environmental movement with the goal of remaking the
world in their own image. Twenty-four sessions of the
1992 annual retreat were taped by a professional
recording service.
The
Center for the Defense of Free
Enterprise
purchased a copy of all 24 tapes and transcribed 8
selected tapes word for word without editing. These
transcriptions reveal the hidden agenda of social
control that lays behind the public face of
environmentalism.
Read the plans of these foundation minions in their own
words. Much of what you see
happening around you today was
orchestrated more than a
decade ago by people you never heard of, who are not
affected by their own actions, and who care nothing for
your well-being.
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EGA also
originally operated the anti-capitalist
Funders' Network on Trade and Globalization,
now a project of Community Partners, Inc., of Amherst, Massachusetts.
Changes within the Rockefeller Family Fund resulted in the separation
of the Environmental Grantmakers Association in 2007 and its incorporation
as a stand-alone entity with substantial help from RFF.
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Environmental
Grantmakers Association
Revenue and Expenses
- 2007
|
Revenue |
|
Expenses |
|
Contributions |
$1,398,261 |
|
Government Grants |
$0 |
|
Program Services |
$12,004 |
|
Investments |
$13,504 |
|
Special Events |
$0 |
|
Sales |
$0 |
|
Other |
$31,378 |
|
|
|
Program Services |
$56,086 |
|
Administration |
$28,434 |
|
Other |
$11,548 |
|
Total Expenditures |
$96,068 |
| |
|
|
Total Assets |
$1,442,062 |
|
|
Total Revenue |
$1,455,147 |
|
NET GAIN/LOSS |
$1,359,079 |
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Environmental
Grantmakers Association
Officers and Directors 2007
| Name |
Title |
Compensation |
| DANA LANZA |
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
$0 |
|
DANA
LANZA IS ALSO AN EMPLOYEE OF THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND |
PROJECT DIRECTOR |
Salary $99,000
Benefits $31,554 |
| STUART
CLARKE |
CHAIR |
$0 |
| ANITA
NAGER |
VICE CHAIR |
$0 |
| AILEEN LEE |
SECRETARY |
$0 |
| MIKE PRATT |
TREASURER |
$0 |
| GRETCHEN
BONFERT |
BOARD MEMBER |
$0 |
| PETE MYERS |
BOARD MEMBER |
$0 |
| MARNI
ROSEN |
BOARD MEMBER |
$0 |
| MICHELLE
DEPASS |
BOARD MEMBER |
$0 |
| ANISA
KAMADOLI COSTA |
BOARD MEMBER |
$0 |
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2000-2001 Sample grants
earmarked specifically for
Environmental Grantmakers Association
or its projects, paid to Rockefeller Family Fund:
Donor Name: The Rockefeller Foundation
Abstract: For matching grant toward Funders Network on Trade and
Globalization, initiative designed to support foundations and other funders in their efforts to promote global relations, policies and
institutions that foster sustainable development around the world
Amount: $60,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Donor Name: The McKnight Foundation
Abstract: For annual
Environmental Grantmakers Association Fall
Retreat
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Donor Name: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Abstract: For efforts of
Environmental Grantmakers Association,
including annual Fall Retreat, and start-up support for new working
group, Funders Network on Trade Globalization
Amount: $68,500 Year Authorized: 2001
Donor Name: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Abstract: For Environmental Grantmakers' Association Fall retreat
and federal and international policy briefings
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 2001
Donor Name: The Rockefeller Foundation
Abstract: For use by its
Environmental Grantmakers Association
toward Funders' Network on Trade and Globalization, initiative
designed to raise awareness and facilitate dialogue within
foundation community about relevance of international trade and
globalization issues
Amount: $22,150 Year Authorized: 2000
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