Sierra Club [a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization]
Address: 85 Second Street 2nd Floor
San Francisco CA 94105-3459
2008 Income: $84,438,083
2008 Assets: $61,407,872

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Carl Pope, executive chairman.
Salary $202,689, benefits $33,727 (2008).
Appointed executive chairman January 2010. Previously served as Club's executive director, associate conservation director, political director, and conservation director.
Former or current board member, California League of Conservation Voters; Public Voice; National Clean Air Coalition; California Common Cause; Zero Population Growth; America Coming Together; Apollo Alliance; Alliance for Climate Protection.
Previously executive director, California League of Conservation Voters; political director, Zero Population Growth.
Graduated summa cum laude Harvard College (1967).
Two years Peace Corps, Barhi Barhi, India.

Michael Brune, executive director.
Appointed executive director January 2010.

Grants to Sierra Club / Sierra Club Foundation
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Sierra Club Selected Grants Received
Sapelo Foundation
Grant	$20,000.00 in 1998
Source	Foundation Annual Report
Details	Georgia Chapter Factory Hog Farm Education Project Education Project To provide funding to educate commmunity leaders and the public about the environmental and human health and safety threats posed by the establishment factory hog farms and other Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Georgia.
North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation
Grant	$38,000.00 in 1999
Source	Donor's Website
Details	Coffee with a Cause is a research and action-oriented education project that promotes fair trade in North America, using coffee as an example. In 1999–2000, Équiterre and its partners will encourage importers, roasters, distributors, retailers, restaurateurs, and workplace administrators, to offer fairly-traded coffee. Équiterre will publish 3,000 copies of a commercial handbook that will help businesses participating in the fair-trade movement take action. The handbook will be adapted to various regions in Canada and the United States, in close cooperation with national fair-trade certification organizations—Fair Trade Mark Canada and TransFair USA. In Mexico, Équiterre will work in partnership with the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region (Unión de Comunidades Indigenas de la Región del Istmo)—a cooperative that grows organic, shade-grown coffee—to adapt, produce and distribute the Spanish version of Coffee with a Cause. The project's objective is to help double the number of sales outlets of fairly traded coffee in Canada and the United States, and to increase the sales of fairly traded coffee from Mexico in the Canadian and US markets by 50 percent in one year. Since 1996, Équiterre has played a leadership role in developing fair trade in Quebec. The Coffee with a Cause campaign has, until now, focused on consumer awareness; in doing so, it has increased the sales of fairly traded coffee in Quebec 35-fold and increased the sales outlets from three to 71. Despite this rapid growth, however, fairly traded coffee remains relatively inaccessible to North American consumers, primarily due to a lack of sales outlets. By forming strategic partnerships with national organizations, Équiterre will contribute to the development of sustainable coffee commerce in all of North America rather than just in Quebec. This strategy stems from the report on fair trade in Europe, produced in 1998 by Équiterre with support from NAFEC. The increase in fair trade among NAFTA countries will reinforce the environmental conservation work of Mexican coffee cooperatives and will allow North American businesses and consumers to contribute concretely towards sustainable development.
North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation
Grant	$6,545.00 in 1999
Source	Donor's Website
Details	A People's Hearing on Hog Production and Processing in Prairie Canada and the US
Glaser Progress Foundation
Grant	$25,000.00 in 2003
Source	Donor's Website
Details	For strengthening animal welfare concerns in the Club's CAFO campaign
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Grant	$75,000.00 in 2001
Source	IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details	To support the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) campaign.

 

Sierra Club Top Funders and Grantees
Funding From Foundations & Corporations	Total Donated	Time Frame
Pew Charitable Trusts	$4,315,000.00	1992 – 2002
Joyce Foundation	$3,007,675.00	1993 – 2002
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	$2,737,436.00	1993 – 2004
Blue Moon Fund	$2,419,450.00	1992 – 2000
David & Lucile Packard Foundation	$2,260,000.00	2000 – 2002
Energy Foundation	$1,677,630.00	1992 – 2003
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund	$1,510,000.00	1993 – 1999
Turner Foundation	$1,315,500.00	1993 – 2002
Bullitt Foundation	$1,079,475.00	1993 – 2002
Brainerd Foundation	$988,500.00	1998 – 2003
Foundation for the Carolinas	$976,700.00	1992 – 2001
Nathan Cummings Foundation	$845,000.00	1991 – 2001
Harder Foundation	$812,000.00	1998 – 2002
George Gund Foundation	$735,000.00	1993 – 2002
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	$710,000.00	1995 – 2001
Beldon Fund	$696,000.00	2000 – 2002
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	$601,000.00	1994 – 1997
Surdna Foundation	$600,000.00	1990 – 1996
Brunckhorst Foundation	$572,500.00	1998 – 2002
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation	$550,000.00	1998 – 2002
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Funding From Other Activist Groups	Total Donated	Time Frame
Tides Foundation & Tides Center	$1,021,831.00	1991 – 2003
Environmental Defense	$16,750.00	1999 – 2001

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