The Meliore Foundation

What The Meliore Foundation does

The Meliore Foundation is a Belgian Foundation of Public Utility (registration number BE0792.532.263) headquartered in Brussels that operates as both an operating and a grant-making foundation focused on funding global strategic communications. The foundation works with undisclosed global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes that educate and encourage fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial, and policy-making levels, primarily on climate and energy issues. It serves as the institutional project host for two named programmes: the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), an international collaborative network of communications professionals in climate and energy founded in 2012 by CEO Tom Brookes, and Strategic Perspectives, a pan-European think tank promoting effective climate action within the EU.

The foundation's technology footprint is limited to a standard web platform (meliorefoundation.org) with integration of the YouTube Data API for tracking news and media coverage, monitoring topic volume and evolution, and producing trend reporting on discourse. Disclosures reference the use of AI-powered internal tools to support staff tasks under GDPR Article 28 contractual safeguards, but no proprietary AI products or models are documented. Distribution operates through direct grants and regranting to aligned organisations; the foundation explicitly does not accept unsolicited funding requests or job applications.

Revenue mechanics are non-commercial: the foundation does not sell products or services and instead receives philanthropic grant funding which it deploys via direct grants and regranting to partner programmes. The leadership team includes a CFO (Rachel Harrison) responsible for financial strategy and risk management, a General Counsel (Elodie Cornez), and a Chief Program Development Officer (Ivan Cheung) overseeing programme incubation and global architecture. The Governing Board includes high-profile members such as former World Bank Group CFO Bertrand Badré (Managing Partner of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital), Obama Foundation fellow Alessandra Orofino (President), and Bridgespan partner Donald Yeh.

Name

The Meliore Foundation

Legal name

The Meliore Foundation

Website

https://meliorefoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Meliore Foundation is a Brussels-based Belgian non-profit foundation operating as both an operating and grant-making vehicle, funding global strategic communications programmes including the GSCC climate/energy network and the Strategic Perspectives EU think tank with philanthropic partner capital.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Philanthropy and Grant-Making

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH), Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAI)

Keywords

• Grant-making foundation
• Strategic communications
• Climate communications
• Philanthropic regranting
• Policy think tank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Grant Funding: The foundation operates as a grant-making organisation, receiving funding from global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes focused on informing fact-based debate and strategic communications on global issues.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Meliore Foundation operates as both an operating and grant-making foundation, funding global strategic communications. It hosts programmes such as the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) — an international network of climate and energy communications professionals — and Strategic Perspectives, a pan-European climate-policy think tank. The foundation delivers operational support, regranting, and programme incubation to aligned organisations working to inform fact-based public debate.

Product overview

The Meliore Foundation operates as both an operating and grant-making foundation focused on funding global strategic communications. The foundation serves as the project host for various programmes including the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) and Strategic Perspectives. GSCC is an international collaborative network of communications professionals focused on climate and energy communications, while Strategic Perspectives is a pan-European think tank promoting effective climate action in the EU. The foundation works with global philanthropic funding partners to support programmes which educate and encourage fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial and policy-making levels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GSCC (Global Strategic Communications Council): An international, collaborative network of communications professionals in the field of climate and energy which aims to inform and strengthen media debate and public discourse.
• Strategic Perspectives

Products and services

• Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) An international, collaborative network of communications professionals in the field of climate and energy that aims to inform and strengthen media debate and public discourse, operated as a hosted programme under Meliore.
• Strategic Perspectives A pan-European think tank, informed by national context, created to promote effective climate action as the solution to a multitude of interconnected crises facing the EU, hosted by the Meliore Foundation.
• Grant Funding and Regranting Programme Provides operational support and regranting funding for aligned programmes engaged in strategic communications and campaigns, working with global philanthropic funding partners to support fact-based discourse at community, societal, commercial, and policy-making levels. Does not accept unsolicited funding requests.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGSCC is an international, collaborative network of communications professionals in the field of climate and energy which aims to inform and strengthen media debate and public discourse. Meliore Foundation serves as the project host for GSCC. Founded in 2012 by Tom Brookes.
• Strategic PerspectivescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic Perspectives is a pan-European think tank created to promote effective climate action as the solution to a multitude of interconnected crises facing the EU. Informed by national context, it supports climate action advocacy at policy levels.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Purpose: Social-impact communications and campaigns agency working on climate and progressive causes. Board President Alessandra Orofino was a founding team member at Purpose; both organizations use strategic communications as a tool for social impact.
• European Climate Foundation: Major European philanthropic foundation funding climate strategic communications and policy advocacy. Tom Brookes (Meliore's CEO) was previously Executive Director of Strategic Communications at ECF, making it the closest direct peer and talent-pipeline comparable.
• ClimateWorks Foundation: Global climate philanthropy platform that regrants to climate-communications and policy networks worldwide. Comparable business model (foundation that funds climate strategy and communications infrastructure) and similar funder base.
• Climate Action Tracker: Independent science-based research and communications project tracking government climate commitments and emissions. Comparable mission in fact-based climate discourse and use of strategic communications to influence policy debate.
• Energy Foundation: US-based philanthropic foundation supporting clean energy and climate policy advocacy through regranting and networks. Similar operating-plus-grantmaking structure focused on energy and climate communications.

Emerging players

• Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI): Independent nonprofit working on resource governance and climate policy. Board member Monica Araya serves as Executive Director at NRGI, and it shares Meliore's fact-based advocacy-and-research orientation.
• Climate Lead: Philanthropic climate platform facilitating collaboration among climate funders and regranting to high-impact climate initiatives. Comparable climate-philanthropy infrastructure play, though broader in scope than Meliore's strategic-comms focus.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg Philanthropies: Large philanthropic umbrella with a substantial climate-and-energy program funding Beyond Carbon and related strategic communications. Much broader portfolio and larger budget, but overlapping funder base and climate-comms mandate.
• Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF): Major international foundation with significant climate and energy grantmaking. Larger and broader funder that competes for many of the same strategic-communications grantees.
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund: Philanthropic foundation with a long-running climate and sustainable development grantmaking program. Similar foundation structure funding climate advocacy and strategic communications, but with broader thematic remit.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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