The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.
The Greta Thunberg Foundation works to support sustainability from a holistic perspective, promoting ecological, climatic and social sustainability.
The Foundation was founded in 2019 to create a transparent way of distributing funds from awards, royalties or donations linked to the Foundation's activities and Greta's activism to organisations and movements working for a just and sustainable world. The mission of the Foundation is to work globally for a sustainable climate, a socially sustainable society, a good environment, preservation of biodiversity, human rights and animal rights in the long term. The mission has been shaped to ensure it is aligned with Greta's values.
The Foundation donates funds to support projects and organisations in line with its mission, to support sustainability from a holistic perspective, promoting ecological, climatic and social sustainability.
Any money associated with awards or prizes Greta receives is donated to the Foundation. The Foundation donates all such funds to support causes in line with its mission. As per October 2022, the Foundation has received EUR 1,235,000 in award and prize money and donated EUR 1,235,000 (taking exchange rates and bank transfer fees into account). Below you can find a list of the Foundation's outgoing donations.
Essential running costs such as administration, due diligence, accounting, auditing and legal services are covered by a part of the received donations and royalties.
The full financial information is available in the annual reports:
Annual report 2024:
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Annual report 2023:
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Annual report 2022:
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Annual report 2021:
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Annual report 2019-2020:
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Donated
EUR 25,000
December 2024
The Foundation is donating EUR 25,000 to Stop Ecocide International in order to support their work to develop legal frameworks to protect people and the planet; specifically legal frameworks for the criminalisation of the worst harms to nature known as “ecocide”.
Funding source
Received donations/book royalties
Donated
EUR 50,000
December 2024
The Foundation is donating EUR 50,000 to Red Cross in order to support their frontline work in responding to escalating emergencies, thus supporting their work in providing urgent primary healthcare and disaster relief across the region.
Funding source
Received donations/book royalties
Donated
EUR 30,000
December 2024
The Foundation is donating EUR 30,000 to Youth Theatre Kenya in order to support their youth engagement work in which they, among other things, raise awareness on climate change, across different regions in Kenya, as well as working across Sub-S aharan Africa with several youth theatres in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Namibia.
Funding source
Received donations/book royalties
Donated
EUR 25,000
December 2024
The Foundation is donating EUR 25,000 to FMST in order to support the movement consisting of environmental justice organizations and organizations that learn and promote MST agroecological food production techniques and thus mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation and freshwater use, whilst securing food and nutritional security and human rights.
Funding source
Received donations/book royalties
Donated
EUR 10,000
December 2024
The Foundation is donating EUR 10,000 to Climate Academy in order to support their environmental crisis education work, formulated with the aim of reforming prevailing fragmented climate- and environmental education. Via a holistic educational programme, young people are given the full picture through a systems-informed approach while learning about the depth and range of the crisis
Funding source
Received donations/book royalties