The Foundation for a Healthy Planet

The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. The Foundation is the independent fiscal sponsor of Sierra Club’s charitable environmental programs.

Goals & Impact

Solve the Climate Crisis
Solve the Climate Crisis

Primarily through a successful transition to a resource-efficient, clean energy economy that better serves people and nature.

Secure Lands Protections
Secure Lands Protections

For public lands and waters, promote healthy ecosystems and communities, and fight for clean air and water.

Get People Outdoors
Get People Outdoors

For more people to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet by supporting programs and policies that reach across economic, cultural, and community lines to get people outdoors.

Build a Movement
Build a Movement

Build a diverse, inclusive environmental movement that reflects and represents today’s American public, and prioritizes important connections between environmental health and social justice.

Shifting Trillions
Shift Trillions for Climate Justice

Leading the shift of trillions of dollars from an extractive and exploitative fossil fuel economy to a restorative, renewable energy economy that better serves people and nature.

Foundation News

Sierra Club Foundation Joins Institutional Voices in Asking BP to Plan for Oil, Gas Declines
The Foundation's co-filing of a shareholder resolution at one of the world's largest companies signifies an acknowledgment toward the vulnerabilities of climate resolutions while ushering in a new approach: highlighting economic risk.
Sierra Club Foundation Investment Evolution
At Sierra Club Foundation, every investment decision is evaluated through two lenses: return and impact.
2024 Annual Report: Cultivating Community for Lasting Change
From protecting millions of acres of lands to transforming the energy sector, Sierra Club Foundation is investing in communities of leaders who are striving to create a healthy planet for all living beings.
Sierra Club Foundation Announces Sara E. Murphy as Director of Shifting Trillions Campaign
The Sierra Club Foundation is excited to announce Sara E. Murphy as the new Director of Shifting Trillions, a campaign to move capital away from fossil fuels and toward a better, sustainable future.