National Philanthropic Trust
Funding network · Fossil-fuel defendants
Funded by National Philanthropic Trust — the donor-advised dark-money fund that received approximately $477.5 million from the Paul E. Singer Foundation (2018–2024) and awarded $12.4 million to nine organizations that later filed briefs supporting Exxon and Suncor.
IdentifierNPT
§ 1 · The money it reaches
National Philanthropic Trust appears behind 8 of the 22 groups profiled in this guide. Open any file to trace the tie:
- Advancing American Freedom Foundation
- Buckeye Institute
- Center for Individual Rights
- Consumers’ Research
- Independence Institute
- Manhattan Institute
- The Breakthrough Institute
- Washington Legal Foundation
Consumer Watchdog · August 2026
