Top 3 Sierra Club funding sources:
Pew Charitable Trusts $4,315,000.00
Joyce Foundation $3,007,675.00
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $2,737,436.00
The Pew Charitable Trusts (seven individual trusts in all) were endowed with various inheritances of the four children of Joseph N. Pew, who founded the Sun Oil Company.
Joyce Foundation: was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean, a Chicago heiress whose family wealth stemmed from lumber, building, and sawmill interests.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: Charles Stewart Mott sold his father's company (a wire-wheel maker) to General Motors in the early 20th Century, in exchange for over 1 million shares of GM stock. He served on the company's board for over 60 years and left a huge fortune upon his death.
Heck, they’ll just see that as proof those industrialists felt guilty about their damage to the environment and tried to atone for their sins.
I’d like to find an actual money trail that leads to the Saudis, Chavez, Ahmanutjob, etc.