Connecting capital to climate impact

Helping ambitious climate funders make decisions with confidence.

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OUR PURPOSE

Catalysing systemic, lasting impact by moving capital where it matters most.

Climate Philanthropy Advisors works with philanthropists, foundations, and regrantors to ensure capital is directed where it can deliver the greatest climate impact.

Working at the intersection of philanthropy, finance, industry, and policy, we act as a high-calibre extension of our clients’ teams — combining funder insight with public and private sector expertise.

Directed $500M+ in climate philanthropy

Led multi-billion-dollar industrial operations

Mobilised billions through sustainable investment strategies

Shaped national and global climate policy

Why work with us?

Deeply experienced, globally connected, and grounded in rigorous evidence.

We’ve sat on your side of the table.

Our team has deep experience as grantmakers. We know how to make strategy land internally and with boards.

Connected to the field, not just theory.

We stay close to field actors, peer funders, and policy leaders across regions.

We test ideas, not sell them.

We challenge assumptions respectfully and stress-test every recommendation with data and systems logic.

We speak policy, markets, and philanthropy.

Helping your strategy land across the systems it touches.

WHAT WE DO

Partner-led, tailored to context, and designed to carry strategy through to execution.

Many of our engagements start with a focused assignment – 

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Board-Ready Strategy

A structured engagement to align on outcomes, identify interventions, and move to grant within a defined period.

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Field & Partner Landscape

Field mapping, global pipeline sourcing, and rigorous due diligence to build a shortlist a board can back.

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Horizon Scan

Structured, evidence-based foresight to identify emerging themes, gaps, and external shifts, so you can fund earlier, smarter, and with greater impact.

WHO WE WORK WITH

We're trusted by philanthropies deploying $100M+ annually —
and those preparing to

our TEAM

Experience and proven impact.

Climate Philanthropy Advisors brings together senior professionals who have deployed capital from within the world's largest climate foundations. Founded by Samuel Rogers – former Head of Climate Investments at Yajilarra Trust – our team combines decades of expertise across philanthropy, industrial operations, sustainable finance, and strategic consulting. Our collective experience includes:

  • Leading climate portfolios at major foundations, scaling from millions to tens of millions annually
  • Managing multi-billion-dollar industrial operations and national energy systems
  • Aligning institutional investment portfolios with climate goals
  • Designing strategies for foundations deploying $100M+ annually
  • Building operational systems for complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives

Our team has sat on your side of the table – delivering board strategies, managing complex portfolios, and ensuring capital achieves measurable impact. We bring both the strategic vision to identify leverage points and the operational experience to execute effectively.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Mission aligned, always.

We don’t measure success 
in outputs or optics, but by emissions avoided, systems transformed, and capital moved where it matters most.

We focus on how well our work helps clients fund what matters – faster, more clearly, and with greater catalytic effect. Our goal is to support decisions that unlock real climate outcomes, whether that’s moving $10m into an underfunded lever or helping a board back a bold new strategy.

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Accelerate your climate philanthropy.

Let our funder-side experience, global field awareness, and systems-level strategy help your climate philanthropy fund effectively.

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