Heir to the Mellon family's banking, oil, coal, and aluminum fortune, Richard Mellon Scaife transformed the Sarah Scaife Foundation into one of the nation's most influential financiers of climate denial and anti-environmental advocacy. For decades, the foundation has funded organizations that challenged climate science, opposed environmental regulation, and worked to roll back federal climate protections. The Institute for Policy Studies [identified](https://ips-dc.org/release-fossil-fuel-philanthropy/) the Scaife family foundations as the largest private foundation supporters of climate disinformation organizations between 2020 and 2022. Ten Suncor amicus filers received Scaife funding.
Backer FileFossil-fuel funded
IdentifierScaife
§ 1 · The money it reaches
Scaife Family appears behind 10 of the 22 groups profiled in this guide. Open any file to trace the tie:
