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- Assets: $10,776,804 (2005)
- Grants Received: $10,000,000 (2005)
- Grants Awarded: $100,000 (2005)
Formed by a merger between the Chevron and Texaco Foundations, the ChevronTexaco Foundation (CTF) [or Chevron Global Fund (CGF), which is the name they use when they file their IRS Form 990], functions as the grant-making arm of the two companies. More than half of the $90.8 million in grants which this Foundation awarded in 2006 was earmarked for beneficiaries outside of North America. Those recipients were located in West Africa, the Philippines, Venezuela, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Latin America, and the Caribbean/Central America Region. In 2004, $63.8 million was distributed for community initiatives and projects outside the United States.
Viewing the U.S. as a nation where bigotry and discrimination against minorities are widespread, CTF structures its philanthropic efforts to counteract those perceived societal flaws. In March 2003, for instance, the Foundation joined forces with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) to create a "September 11th Anti-Bias Project" that funneled $1.5 million in grants "to assist victims of discrimination." The beneficiaries of these funds were "nineteen organizations across the country, who focus on curbing discrimination against Arabs, Muslims and South Asians" - discrimination that CTF asserts has increased dramatically since the 9/11 attacks. Among the donees were the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, American Immigration Law Foundation, the Arab American Institute Foundation, the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada, and the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences.
Additional CTF grant recipients include the Tides Center; the Tides Foundation; the National Council of La Raza; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Urban League; the League of United Latin American Citizens; the World Wildlife Fund; the Izaak Walton League of America; Trust for Public Land; the Brookings Institution; the Earthwatch Institute; the Progressive Policy Institute; the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; the Democratic Leadership Council; the Environmental Law Institute; the National Black Caucus of State Legislators; the Groundwater Foundation; the African-American Institute; the Keystone Center; the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow; the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, & the Environment; the Nature Conservancy; the World Environment Center; the Middle East Institute; Africare; the American Iranian Council; the Black American Political Association of California; the Corporate Council on Africa; the Institute for Civil Justice; National Urban Fellows; the National Women's Law Center; the Carter Center; Navajo Nation; the Fund For Peace; the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiatives Fund; Women in Government; Women's Policy, Inc.; Barrio Station; the National Organization for Women; the Human Rights Campaign; the Mi Casa Resource Center for Women; the National Council of Negro Women; the National Eagle Leadership Institute for Diversity Recruitment Expo; the Employment Law Center; and the Legal Aid Society.
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