Foreign charities donate $2B to US climate and political advocacy groups: report

FIRST ON FOX: A brand new report exhibits that 5 international charities have donated practically $2 billion to numerous U.S. nonprofits and coverage teams targeted on local weather change and political activism.

People for Public Belief has an in depth, 31 page report with receipts that monitor cash from international charities to American teams. It notes that whereas instantly contributing to political candidates will not be permitted underneath federal legislation, election-related actions reminiscent of get-out-and-vote campaigns, some lobbying efforts, situation promoting and different politically charged actions contain international {dollars}.

“There is not any doubt about the place it is going and the place it is coming from,” Caitlin Sutherland, govt director of People for Public Belief, advised Fox Information Digital. “We all know it is international cash that goes into our American coverage battles, local weather lawsuits, analysis, protests, lobbying, you identify it.”

“International cash is coming in and attempting to erode our democracy,” Sutherland added.

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A protester holds an upside-down American flag close to the Capitol in the course of the “We Are All DC” nationwide march calling for an finish to the deployment of Nationwide Guard troops in Washington, DC, on September 6, 2025. (AMID FARAHI/AFP through Getty Photographs)

The teams that contributed to the practically $2 billion in international funding embody the Quadrature Local weather Basis (UK), the KR Basis (Denmark), the Oak Basis (Switzerland), the Laudes Basis (Switzerland/Netherlands) and the Youngsters’s Funding Fund Basis (UK).

Essentially the most intensive, the Quadrature Local weather Basis, has awarded roughly $520 million to 41 U.S. teams since 2020, in keeping with the report.

“Essentially the most shocking place the international cash has ended up is in a bunch referred to as the Environmental Regulation Institute [ELI]Sutherland defined to Fox Information Digital. “They’re identified for main a bunch referred to as the Local weather Judiciary Undertaking. They work to coach judges on local weather litigation.”

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“So the truth that a bunch that trains so-called local weather judges is the beneficiary of international cash is a big drawback,” Sutherland added.

Local weather demonstrators protest outdoors the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand on February 20, 2024 in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Photographs)

ELI has acquired a $650,000 grant from the Oak Basis, based mostly in Switzerland, in separate grants since 2018.

“The Environmental Regulation Institute acquired a $300,000 grant from the Oak Basis in 2018 to assist the creation of a toolkit for sustainable small-scale fishing,” ELI spokesperson Nick Collins advised Fox Information Digital. “Constructing on profitable examples from world wide, the toolkit gives steerage for strengthening small-scale fisheries via laws.”

“ELI is an impartial, nonpartisan group, and each grant we obtain is conditioned on defending this independence,” Collins continued. “No funder dictates our work, and our grants are administered in accordance with IRS guidelines and laws.”

The Environmental Regulation Institute has additionally acquired federal grants from the U.S. authorities previously, most not too long ago underneath the Biden administration’s EPA and Division of State in 2022.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has minimize federal funding to ELI. (Getty Photographs)

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In August of this 12 months, 23 attorneys common despatched a message a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who referred to as for an finish to federal funding.

Zeldin and President Donald Trump’s EPA subsequently minimize funding to ELI.

“We have been additionally capable of decide that $1.6 million in international cash from the Oak Basis ended up in a bunch referred to as Group Change,” Sutherland continued. “They’re the entrance group that has led the cost towards Trump’s crackdown on crime, so as soon as once more we see the place international cash is coming in to protest, file lawsuits and supply coaching.”

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In line with the report, $1.6 million from the Oak Basis was funneled to Group Change, the group acknowledged because the “fiscal sponsor” behind Free DC, which was accountable for the anti-Trump protests in Washington DC.

Protesters gathered in Dupont Circle in a march to the White Home to oppose the federalization of the Washington DC police division and President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal businesses and the Nationwide Guard. (Fox Information Digital/Emma Woodhead)

Fox Information Digital despatched inquiries to the varied international charities in regards to the doable reasoning behind funneling cash to US organizations that foyer and marketing campaign on particular coverage points, however acquired no responses.

Based mostly on the report, Sutherland suspected that the implementation of an excessive European agenda within the US is the almost definitely driving issue for the numerous billions of {dollars} in subsidies and donations.

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“It appears clear to me that this international cash is coming into america as a result of they need to implement their extremist European imaginative and prescient of America,” Sutherland concluded. “Numerous these teams need to ban fuel stoves, very extremist positions. And it appears to me that in the event you have a look at the cash, they only need to have a extra excessive United States, extra radical and additional left than what we would like.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to the Quadrature Local weather Basis, the KR Basis, the Oak Basis, the Laudes Basis, the Youngsters’s Funding Fund Basis and Group Change, however didn’t obtain a response by time of publication.

Preston Mizell is a breaking information author at Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions might be despatched to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and at X @MizellPreston