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Foundation for
Deep Ecology
 

Foundation for Deep Ecology
1062 FORT CRONKHITE
SAUSALITO, CA 94965
phone: (415) 229-9339
facsimile: (415) 229-9340
email: info@deepecology.org

website: http://www.deepecology.org/

Assets Amount, 2000: $170,604,189
Contributions Received: $2,990
Expenditures: $13,019,321
Qualifying Distribution: $12,726,259
Total Giving: $10,840,526
Grants Amount: $10,840,526  Number of Grants: 248
Highest Grant: $2,712,500  Lowest Grant: $500
Average Grant: 10000-75000
Operating Program Amount: $185,177  Number of Operating Programs: 4

EIN: 94-3106115
Established 1989 as Ira-Hiti Foundation, exempt since
April 1991

Foundation for Deep Ecology is mapped on Muckety

Description: Established by Douglas Tompkins with his share of the Esprit clothing fortune. Intensely anti-capitalist and anti-corporate grantmaker who made his fortune as a hypercapitalist, making clothes in California and Third World sweatshops.
Primary funder of International Forum on Globalization and may of its its constituent groups.

FDE's portfolio holds stocks or bonds of Allstate, which insures fossil-fuel-using cars; Citicorp, and three foreign banks, which fund the globalization Tompkins tries to stop; Fannie Mae, funder of suburbanization; Grupo Televisa, the Mexican TV network, ironic since program director Jerry Mander wrote a book against TV; HCA-Hospital Corp. of America; Telefonos de Mexico, a NAFTA bonus-baby; and Wal-Mart,
not-so-local presence across  America.

FDE funds attack groups in the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign:

Foundation for Deep Ecology Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2001
  Revenue     Expenses
Contributions $0
Government Grants $0
Dividends $2,200,255
Sale of assets $14,059,936
Special Events $0
Sales $0
Other $15,271
 
Contributions $103,567,575
Administration $1,839,706
Other $0
Total Expenditures $105,407,281
   
Total Assets $61,541,064
Total Revenue $16,275,462   NET GAIN/LOSS <$89,131,819>

FOUNDATION OFFICERS:

  • Douglas Tompkins, President
  • Kris McDivitt Tompkins, Vice President
  • Quincey Imhoff, Vice President
  • Debra Ryker, Secretary/Treasurer

FOUNDATION STAFF:

  • Quincey Imhoff, Executive Director
  • Jerry Mander, Program Director, Megatechnology and Globalization Program Officer
  • John Davis, Biodiversity and Wildness Program Officer
  • Melanie Adcock, Ecological Agriculture Program Officer
  • Esther Li, Financial Controller
  • Lizzie Udwin, Grants Administrator
  • Sharon Donovan, Publishing Manager
  • Renee Gallegos, Office Coordinator/Receptionist
  • Fay Li, Staff Accountant

Globalization and Megatechnology Grantees 1990-99

A Seed Europe
Abya Yala Fund
Alliance for a Paving Moritorium
Alliance for Global Justice
Alternative Forum
Amazon Watch
American Lands Alliance
Amiq Institute
Austria's Future (Zukunft Osterreich)
Bank Information Center
Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
Berkeley Region Exchange and Development
Biotechnology Working Group
Both ENDS
Campaign Against A Single Currency
Car Busters
Center for a Commercial-Free Public Education
Center for Ecoliteracy
Center for Environmental Public Advocacy
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Plain Living
Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits
Centro De Asistencia Legal Popular
CEPAUR/ Development Alternatives Center
Citizen Alert
Citizens Campaign on Trade
Corporate Europe Observatory
Council for Responsible Genetics
Council of Canadians
Council on Public & International Affairs
Cultural Survival Canada
Data Center
Earth Rights International
ECOROPA
Edmonds Institute
En'owkin Centre
Environment and Free Trade in Latin America
Environmental News Network
Envision Environmental Media
European Centre for Eco Agro Tourism
Farmworker Association of Central Florida
First Nations Development Institute
Foundation on Economic Trends
Free Agency
Friends of Nitassinan
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Red Road
Global Exchange
Grassroots International
Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
Gwich'in Steering Committee
Indian Law Resource Center
Innu Support Group
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Economic Relocalisation
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Policy Studies
International Center for Technology Assessment
International Development Exchange
International Forum on Globalization
International Media Project
International Rivers Network
International Society for Ecology and Culture
Kunas Unidos por Napguana
Ladakh Project
Learning Alliance
Loka Institute
Lokayan/SPACE
Media for International Development
Millennium's Neighborhood
Movimiento contra la Europa de Maastricht
National Council of Rubber Tappers
National Lawyers Guild Foundation
Native Lands Institute
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nature Institute
New Internationalist
New York Open Center
Nuclear Free Future Awards
Observatoire de la Globalisation Economique
Ozone Action
People's Global Action
People-Centered Development Forum
Positive Futures Network
Prairie Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage
Project Underground
Public Citizen
Public Health Institute
Rainforest Information Centre
Redwood Environmental Education Institute
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Rethinking Tourism Project
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)
Ruckus Society
Sarawak Campaign Committee
E.F. Schumacher Society
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Sierra Club Foundation
South and Meso American Indian Information Center
Southwest Community Resources
Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum
Survival International
Sustainable Alternatives to the Global Economy
Thakiwa Foundation
Third World Network
Tonantzin Land Institute
Trade Research Consortium
Transnational Institute
Transnational Resource & Action Center
Transportation Alternatives
Turning Point Project
TV-Free America
Umwelt- und Projektwerkstatt e.V. Freiburg
United Nations of Chippewa and Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Washington Biotechnology Action Council
Western Shoshone Defense Fund
White Earth Land Recovery Project
World Uranium Hearing

Selected Grants

 
Turning Point Project
Grant $325,000.00 in 1999
Source IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details Approved 08-06-1999; Payment on 09-09-1999
Center for Food Safety
Grant $120,000.00 in 2001
Source IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
Details Raise public awareness about the detrimental effects of industrial agriculture and promote sustainable and ecological agricultural alternatives
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Grant $75,000.00 in 1998
Source The Foundation Center
Details For a campaign to end industrial agriculture

 

Top Grants Made

 
Funding To Activist Groups Total Donated Time Frame
Conservation Land Trust $113,460,139.00 1998 – 2000
Foundation on Economic Trends $1,812,500.00 1994 – 2001
Center for Food Safety $1,670,080.00 1996 – 2003
International Center for Technology Assessment $1,343,000.00 1997 – 2003
Tides Foundation & Tides Center $1,244,016.00 1991 – 2006
Turning Point Project $1,233,000.00 1999 – 2000
Consumers Association of Penang $1,063,000.00 1996 – 2001
International Forum on Globalization $1,054,857.00 1997 – 2003
Research Fdn. for Science, Technology, and Ecology $665,000.00 1997 – 2003
Public Citizen $645,500.00 1991 – 2002
Earth Island Institute $545,000.00 1994 – 2001
Wildlands Project $502,500.00 1997 – 2003
Rainforest Action Network $464,080.00 1997 – 2001
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy $417,500.00 1991 – 2001
Land Institute $375,000.00 1997 – 2003
Food and Water $275,000.00 1997 – 2001
Public Media Center $270,000.00 1997 – 2001
Adbusters $235,000.00 1992 – 2001
David Suzuki Foundation $190,000.00 1997 – 1998
Friends of the Earth $182,000.00 1998 – 2001
Sierra Club $160,000.00 1994 – 2001
A SEED $155,630.00 1997 – 2001
Institute for Food & Development Policy $152,000.00 1998 – 2003
Rural Advancement Foundation International $125,000.00 1999 – 2001
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society $116,500.00 1997 – 2002
Community Alliance with Family Farmers $115,000.00 1999 – 2003
Organic Consumers Association $114,000.00 2000 – 2003
Pesticide Action Network North America $110,000.00 1998 – 2001
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity $103,500.00 1998 – 2001
Edmonds Institute $60,840.00 1998 – 2000
Farm Folk/City Folk Society $60,000.00 1997 – 2001
Council of Canadians $58,500.00 1997 – 2001
National Family Farm Coalition $55,000.00 1997 – 2000
Redefining Progress $55,000.00 1994 – 1994
Green Guide Institute $50,000.00 1997 – 1998
Californians for Pesticide Reform $50,000.00 1998 – 1998
Center for Ecoliteracy $50,000.00 1997 – 1997
Council for Responsible Genetics $50,000.00 1999 – 2001
Center for Media & Democracy $41,000.00 1997 – 2000
League of Wilderness Defenders $37,500.00 1993 – 2002
Fund for Wild Nature $31,000.00 1991 – 1996
Alliance for Global Justice $30,000.00 1999 – 2001
Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads $30,000.00 1998 – 2001
EarthSave International $30,000.00 1991 – 1993
Humane Society of the United States $30,000.00 2002 – 2002
Food Alliance $30,000.00 1998 – 1999
Worldwatch Institute $26,000.00 1998 – 1999
Ecology Center, Inc. $25,000.00 1997 – 1998
Ruckus Society $20,000.00 1999 – 2000
Center for Rural Affairs $20,000.00 1997 – 1997
Environmental Research Foundation $20,000.00 1998 – 1998
Land Stewardship Project $15,000.00 2001 – 2001
Foundation for Global Sustainability $15,000.00 1997 – 1999
Free Agency $15,000.00 1999 – 2000
Consumer's Choice Council $15,000.00 1998 – 1998
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture $15,000.00 2001 – 2001
Greenpeace $15,000.00 1992 – 1992
Natural Resources Defense Council $15,000.00 1993 – 1993
Northwest Earth Institute $15,000.00 1997 – 1999
TV Turnoff Network $15,000.00 1998 – 2001
Sustain $12,000.00 2001 – 2001
Rural Coalition $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Soil Association $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Center for Commercial-Free Public Education $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Essential Information $10,000.00 2000 – 2001
Oregon Natural Resources Council $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Chez Panisse Foundation $10,000.00 1997 – 1997
Mothers for Natural Law $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters $10,000.00 1998 – 1998
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project $10,000.00 1999 – 1999
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides $7,500.00 2000 – 2000
Sustainable America $5,000.00 2000 – 2000
Environmental Defense $5,000.00 1999 – 1999
Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers $5,000.00 2001 – 2001
Center for Resource Economics $5,000.00 1999 – 1999
Dogwood Alliance $5,000.00 1999 – 1999

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