Wellspring Philanthropic

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: The “Secretive U.S. Vulture Fund”
Reclusive billionaire C. Frederick Taylor has become a left-wing climate policy influencer to rival Michael Bloomberg. IRS records for 2020 through 2022 show Taylor-funded nonprofits have already spent at least…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Following Fred’s Money
Wellspring was originally named the Matan B’Seter Foundation in its first tax filing back in 2001. The Hebrew phrase means “anonymous gift.” Twenty-One was listed as a major donor to…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Funding of Anti-Energy Radicals
During those three years of the Sequoia/Wellspring funding, a cumulative total of at least $76.9 million was sent out to 18 of the most strident, anti-energy zealots in the climate…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Green Watch
The Sequoia Climate Foundation: Climate Colonialism
At least $180.5 million of the $450 million in Wellspring/Sequoia climate policy grants given during the 2020 through 2022 donor years—40 percent of the total—went to either nonprofits operating outside…
by Ken Braun on June 10, 2024

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Nonprofit Donations
We have more people in prison per capita than almost every other nation, San Francisco is being overrun by thieves, and other big cities have recently set new records for…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: A Tale of Four Cities
Some big cities have recently become sharply worse, but the full picture is more complicated. In 2021, records were set for total murders in 10 of America’s 40 most populated…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: The Soros Prosecutors
Since 2016, according to research tabulated by the Capital Research Center, the network of political committees funded by George Soros have contributed $35 million to the election of left-wing district…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Status Quo Supporters
While it’s easy to critique the outcome in some of the cities where Soros has planted new prosecutors, it’s also easy to misinterpret his motives. Not without reason, he believes…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Big Winners
Of the big gusher of criminal justice reform money flowing against this status quo since 2020, a lot of it has washed over the advocacy group FWD.us, and the FWD.us…
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023

Organization Trends
Soft Eyes for Criminal Justice Solutions: Soft Eyes for Solutions
In between, groups and donors from all partisan persuasions (and none in particular) are doing good work, often the same work, because they’re looking at the problem with soft eyes.
by Ken Braun on June 1, 2023