That’s a lot of money, but you’ll be surprised to know it’s not very well distributed to organizations and a lot goes to the richest of the charities.
To complete the analysis, Carbon Switch looked at returns from a regular report put together by Giving International, an organization that takes a yearly look at overall charity data, as well as more than 65,000 tax returns from environmental nonprofit groups housed on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer tool.
According to the Giving International report, $8 billion went to environmental charities in 2020. Just five groups took in a quarter of that total. The Nature Conservancy alone raked in more than $1.1 billion in donations last year, significantly outpacing the runner-up, World Wildlife Fund.
–Gizmodo, By Molly Taft , https://gizmodo.com/people-are-giving-money-to-the-wrong-climate-charities-1848135834
