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Did the mystery donor behind a $10 million gift to a small climate change fund actually give more?
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File - A coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun on July 27, 2018, in Glenrock, Wyo. A climate philanthropy organization, Giving Green, received a $10 million anonymous donation in April, 2024, and thinks that the same donor may have given even more. - photo by AP Photo/J. David Ake, File
On a Friday morning in April, Dan Stein, the founder of Giving Green, a climate philanthropy organization, found some big news in a surprising email. An anonymous donor had given his fund $10 million. “I didn’t quite process the number of zeroes,” Stein said, adding he was “tickled, awestruck, surprised” by the gift.