Climate and Land Use Alliance

What Climate and Land Use Alliance does

Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA) is a philanthropic collaborative foundation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2010, with 71 employees. It is governed as a consortium of five core member foundations — ClimateWorks Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Good Energies Foundation — with Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies acting as an aligned foundation. The Alliance pools and coordinates philanthropic capital across these institutions to halt and reverse tropical deforestation and to support Indigenous Peoples', Afro-Descendant Peoples', and local communities in securing their land rights, livelihoods, and forest stewardship.

CLUA's activities are organized around five strategic priorities: securing forest communities' rights and livelihoods; advancing environmental governance, policy, and accountability; strengthening movements, narratives, and collective action (including strategic communications capacity); shifting financial systems toward equitable, forest-positive finance; and improving production, consumption, and trade to reduce deforestation-linked emissions. Grantmaking is deployed across five regional initiatives — Brazil, Colombia and Peru, Indonesia, Mexico and Central America, and a Global initiative — and flows to a distributed base of civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples' organizations, and community networks. CLUA does not sell products or services; its "revenue" is functionally the pooled contributions of its member foundations, which are not publicly disclosed. Distribution occurs exclusively through grants rather than commercial channels, and the Alliance positions itself as a coordinator across the philanthropic ecosystem rather than a direct operator of conservation programs.

The organization has no proprietary technology product surface. Its digital presence is limited to a content website (climateandlandusealliance.org) and email newsletter that publish strategic resources, partner resources, and grant information. There are no APIs, AI/ML capabilities, certifications, patents, or commercial partnerships; the only listed relationships are the foundational ones with its member and aligned foundations. Ownership is collaborative rather than equity-based, with no parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, or M&A activity indicated in the available data.

Name

Climate and Land Use Alliance

Legal name

Climate and Land Use Alliance

Website

https://climateandlandusealliance.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Climate and Land Use Alliance is a philanthropic collaborative of five major foundations that pools and coordinates grantmaking to halt tropical deforestation and support Indigenous and forest-dependent communities across Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Indonesia, Mexico, and Central America.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Philanthropy Services

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF), Climate Policy, Governance & NDC Support (BPADALAA), Forestry & Reforestation (BPAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Forest conservation funding
• Climate philanthropy
• Tropical forest protection
• Environmental grantmaking
• Land rights advocacy

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA) is a philanthropic collaborative of foundations that pools resources to provide grants and strategic support to civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples' organizations, and local communities working to halt and reverse tropical deforestation. The Alliance coordinates grantmaking across five strategic priorities (securing forest community rights, advancing governance and accountability, strengthening movements, shifting financial systems, and improving production and trade) and five geographic focus regions (Brazil, Colombia & Peru, Indonesia, Mexico & Central America, and Global).

Product overview

Climate and Land Use Alliance is a philanthropic collaborative of foundations focused on protecting tropical forests and advancing climate resilience. It does not offer commercial technology products or services. The organization funds civil society organizations working on forest rights, governance, financial systems, and sustainable production through grant-making activities. Its activities center on strategic communications, coalition building, and resource mobilization rather than technology product development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CLUA Grant Funding Program Pooled grantmaking from a collaborative of member foundations (ClimateWorks, Packard, Ford, Moore, Good Energies) directed to civil society organizations, Indigenous Peoples' organizations, and local communities working to halt and reverse tropical deforestation across Brazil, Colombia & Peru, Indonesia, Mexico & Central America, and globally.
• Strategic Communications Capacity Support Capacity-building support that strengthens strategic communications and healthy media ecosystems for global and transnational forest protection movements, helping grantees develop narratives and collective action on forest protection, climate resilience, and rights.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Rockefeller Foundation: Major US foundation with significant climate and forest-related grantmaking under its Planetary Health and Food initiatives. Comparable as a large, globally active climate funder with overlapping grantee ecosystems and similar convening role.
• Bezos Earth Fund: A very large climate philanthropy vehicle committing $10B to climate, nature, and land-use initiatives including tropical forest protection. Comparable as a major funder in overlapping geographies and themes, though operating with a different (single-donor) structure and broader portfolio scope.
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Major US foundation funding climate, conservation, and environmental grantmaking including forest protection in key geographies. Comparable in scale and mission overlap, though with broader portfolio beyond tropical forests.
• Bloomberg Philanthropies: Large-scale philanthropic vehicle funding climate, energy, and environmental programs globally including tropical forest initiatives. Comparable as a high-capacity climate funder, though primarily operating through a single-donor model with broader thematic scope.

Direct peers

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation: A CLUA member foundation contributing to the collaborative's pooled resources. Comparable as a large US foundation with significant climate, ocean, and land conservation grantmaking portfolios and similar convening role in environmental philanthropy.
• ClimateWorks Foundation: A member foundation of CLUA that leads the Forests & Land Use program. ClimateWorks operates as a climate-focused philanthropic intermediary with very similar grantmaking, strategy, and convening functions — making it the most directly comparable peer.
• Good Energies Foundation: A CLUA member foundation focused on climate, energy, and forest ecosystem protection/restoration. Directly comparable as a climate-focused philanthropic funder supporting local partners on forest management.
• Ford Foundation: A CLUA member foundation with a Natural Resources and Climate Justice portfolio. Comparable as a major US-based foundation that funds climate, environmental justice, and Indigenous rights, with significant international grantmaking operations.
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: A CLUA member foundation whose Andes-Amazon Initiative focuses on long-term ecological integrity of the Amazon basin. Operates at similar scale and geographic focus on tropical forests and conservation philanthropy.
• Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies: An aligned foundation supporting CLUA's work on rainforest-dependent communities. Operates a similar philanthropic model focused on tropical forest conservation and community resilience, with overlapping grantee networks in Indonesia and Latin America.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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