Stop the Money Pipeline

What Stop the Money Pipeline does

Stop the Money Pipeline is a U.S.-based climate-finance advocacy coalition headquartered in Oakland, California, operating with a 1-10 employee footprint as a non-profit campaign organization. The coalition's stated mission is to pressure financial institutions and corporations to end their financial backing of fossil fuel projects and far-right extremism. It functions as an activist coalition rather than a commercial enterprise, producing research and public campaigns designed to create reputational and procurement pressure on targeted institutions.

The organization's primary deliverable is comparative research on financial institutions' alignment with climate commitments. Its most prominent output is a report evaluating the 20 largest U.S. credit card issuers' alignment with the International Energy Agency's net-zero pathway over the 2021-2024 period. Of the 20 issuers evaluated, 12 were found to be financing the fossil fuel industry and 8 were classified as better-aligned options. The coalition has applied this framework to specific named corporate targets, publicly characterizing Costco's credit card partnership with Citibank as misaligned with Costco's stated climate and sustainability goals.

As a non-profit advocacy coalition, Stop the Money Pipeline does not sell products or services and has no disclosed pricing model or GTM motion. Distribution of its research occurs through public reports, direct advocacy campaigns, and earned media coverage in climate-focused business publications such as Corporate Knights. The organization does not disclose its funding sources, donor base, management team, or financial statements, and operates without disclosed parent, subsidiary, or investor relationships.

Name

Stop the Money Pipeline

Website

https://stopthemoneypipeline.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stop the Money Pipeline is a U.S.-based climate-finance advocacy coalition that runs research and public campaigns pressuring financial institutions and corporations to end their financial backing of fossil fuels and far-right extremism.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Advocacy and ESG Research

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Neutrality/Claims Strategy & Communications (claims substantiation, greenwashing risk) (EUABAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Climate Finance, Carbon Markets & MRV Systems (BPADALAB)

Keywords

• Climate advocacy
• Fossil fuel divestment
• Financial accountability
• ESG research reports
• Climate coalition campaigns

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Stop the Money Pipeline is a climate-finance advocacy coalition that produces research reports evaluating the alignment of U.S. financial institutions (notably credit card issuers) with international net-zero climate pathways, and uses those reports to publicly pressure banks, insurers, asset managers, and their corporate partners to stop financing fossil fuel expansion. Its core deliverable is comparative analysis identifying which institutions fund fossil fuels and which qualify as better options, leveraged to drive accountability through media coverage and direct campaigns.

Product overview

Stop the Money Pipeline is a coalition focused on climate-finance advocacy that produces research reports evaluating financial institutions' alignment with climate goals. The coalition's primary offering is its fossil fuel finance report, which analyzes credit card issuers' and other financial institutions' funding of fossil fuel industries relative to international climate pathways.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fossil Fuel Finance Report

Quantifiable outcome

• Identified Costco's credit card partnership with Citibank as misaligned with Costco's stated climate and sustainability goals

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• 350.org: 350.org is a climate advocacy organization whose "Stop the Money Pipeline" workstream is essentially the campaign under which Stop the Money Pipeline operates. It mobilizes grassroots pressure against fossil fuel financing and shares coalition members and goals with STMP.
• Greenpeace USA: Greenpeace USA is a founding member of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition and runs parallel finance-pressure campaigns against U.S. banks. Its operations and goals overlap heavily with STMP, especially on fossil fuel divestment from major commercial banks.
• Rainforest Action Network: RAN runs long-running campaigns targeting bank financing of fossil fuels and has been a core member of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition. Its Bankrolling Climate Change series of reports directly overlaps with STMP's fossil fuel finance research in scope and method.
• Reclaim Finance: Reclaim Finance is a French NGO that produces detailed scoring and ranking of financial institutions on coal, oil, gas, and climate policy alignment. It is a direct methodological peer for STMP's credit card issuer assessment and operates the same naming-and-shaming playbook.
• Insure Our Future: Insure Our Future is a coalition campaign pressuring global insurers and reinsurers to end fossil fuel underwriting. It is a sibling coalition in the broader stop-the-money-pipeline movement, applying the same public-pressure research model to a different corner of financial services.
• BankTrack: BankTrack is a global civil society coalition tracking commercial banks' involvement in fossil fuel and human rights controversies. It is the most direct functional peer to Stop the Money Pipeline: both are coalitions that publicly name, score, and pressure financial institutions using research reports.
• Sierra Club (Beyond Coal / Climate Finance campaign): Sierra Club runs coordinated climate finance campaigns pushing banks and asset managers to divest from fossil fuels. It is a founding coalition member of Stop the Money Pipeline and shares research, members, and target institutions.

Emerging players

• InfluenceMap: InfluenceMap scores and maps corporate lobbying against climate policy, including financial institutions' climate positioning. While its focus is lobbying and policy disclosure rather than direct financing, it is a comparable research-driven advocacy organization in the climate-finance accountability space.
• Carbon Tracker Initiative: Carbon Tracker produces financial research on how the energy transition creates stranded-asset risk for fossil fuel investments. While its angle is investor-focused analysis rather than direct bank shaming, its research underpins much of the climate-finance advocacy ecosystem that STMP operates in.

Regional players

• Market Forces: Market Forces is the Australia-based analogue of Stop the Money Pipeline, running finance-focused campaigns against banks, insurers, and super funds that fund fossil fuels. It uses the same research-and-pressure model but is primarily focused on the Australian and Asia-Pacific financial sector.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StopMoneyPipe
• Facebookfacebook.com/StoptheMoneyPipeline
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stop-the-money-pipeline

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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