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Bipartisan Policy Center
Overview
The Giving Green Fund plans to award a grant to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to support its policy advocacy for US-based clean technology innovation. BPC is a think tank that promotes bipartisanship across many policy areas. We focus on its Energy Program.
BPC’s work cuts across a number of our promoted philanthropic strategies related to clean technology innovation, including nuclear and carbon removal, which falls under BPC’s carbon management workstream. Please see Giving Green’s philanthropic strategy reports for more information, including potential risks and co-benefits, recommended sub-strategies, theory of change, funding need, and key uncertainties.
Last updated: April 2025
What is BPC?
BPC is a US-based nonprofit organization founded in 2007 that works with both Republicans and Democrats to promote bipartisan policy. On climate, BPC’s major work includes influencing appropriations requests (e.g., federal funding for emissions-reducing programs) and authorizations (e.g., specific policy language that determines program implementation), engaging with policymakers, convening other nonprofits, and influencing implementation of programs in the Executive Branch. Its issue areas include clean energy innovation, permitting reform, climate and trade, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy.
What are we funding at BPC and how could it help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
We are funding BPC to continue its work on clean technology innovation. This includes developing policy recommendations and framing policy on near-term appropriations requests for key congressional offices to consider. Additionally, BPC is defending climate provisions in recently passed bills by highlighting the importance of technology-neutral solutions to meet rising energy demand and keep electricity prices down, which includes protection of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) innovation programs.
We think BPC’s activities could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions because early support for emerging technologies can potentially drive down their cost and accelerate their deployment worldwide, reducing emissions globally.
Why do we think BPC will use this funding well?
We think BPC will use this funding well based on its historic wins, ability to influence politicians on both sides of the aisle, and demonstrated need for more funding.
BPC’s recent historic wins include helping to increase DOE’s funding each year since Fiscal Year 2018, and inclusion of its policy language in the Energy Act of 2020, the CHIPS and Science Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and IRA.. We further believe that BPC is well-positioned to keep succeeding due to its close working relationships with Republicans, who currently hold power. Our grant is intended to help fill a funding gap in BPC’s innovation work. Our understanding is that without new funding for innovation, BPC may have to shift its focus to areas that are already fully funded.
Giving Green believes that additional climate donations are likely to be most impactful when directed to our top nonprofits. For a number of reasons, we may choose to recommend grants to other organizations for work that we believe is at least as impactful as grants to our top recommendations. We are highlighting this grant to offer transparency to donors to the Giving Green Fund as well as to provide a resource for donors who are particularly interested in this impact strategy. This is a nonpartisan analysis (study or research) and is provided for educational purposes.