Enemies of Energy: Sergey Brin
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Enemies of Energy, a research report created for the Capital Research Center. The page for the full report is here: Enemies of Energy.
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Google/Alphabet co-founder Sergey Brin ranked sixth on the most recent Forbes magazine ranking of richest Americans, with an estimated $166 billion net worth. But until recently, Brin wasn’t counted among the world’s biggest anti-energy donors. [i]
A February 2025 report in Inside Philanthropy announced a change in his priorities:[ii]
As a donor, Sergey Brin is best known for writing multimillion-dollar checks for Parkinson’s disease research. Yet in the past few years, the Google cofounder has quietly become one of the nation’s top climate and environmental funders — and in 2024, his footprint got even bigger.
The 51-year-old’s Sergey Brin Family Foundation made nearly $243 million in climate-related awards in 2024, while his billion-dollar nonprofit advocacy group Catalyst4 Inc. granted almost $22 million on climate, according to data provided to IP by the two groups.[iii]
The most recent publicly available IRS filings from Catalyst4 and the Brin Family Foundation cover grantmaking in 2024. They show that nearly $110.4 million in combined grants were sent during the year to five of the fifteen anti-energy NGOs profiled in the previous section of this report, and to three of the four anti-energy pass-through donors profiled in this section of the report.[iv]
More than $15.6 million combined from the Brin Foundation and Catalyst4 was sent to these anti-energy NGOs in 2024: [v]
- Earthjustice: $4 million
- League of Conservation Voters: $3.5 million
- Rocky Mountain Institute: $2.5 million
- Natural Resources Defense Council: $2.2 million
- Environmental Defense Fund: $1.9 million
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $1.5 million
In addition, $94.7 million was sent by the Brin Foundation to these major anti-energy pass-through donors in 2024:[vi]
- Climate Imperative Foundation: $49 million
- S. Energy Foundation: $31.5 million
- Climateworks Foundation: $14.2 million
According to that February 2025 Inside Philanthropy report, Brin’s new giving agenda included $2.5 million for the Earthjustice “Right to Zero transportation program.” The IP reporter claimed Brin was not “looking for attention” and the report didn’t investigate why the then-51-year-old billionaire might suddenly become concerned about the energy use of average Americans.[vii]
The reporter should have looked a little bit closer.
Nine months later in November 2025, Luxury Launches, a news site that tracks the toy purchases of the super-rich, ran this long but revealing headline: [viii]
Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $450 million megayacht is so big that just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it quietly devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board. [ix]
A report in SuperYacht Fan pegged the length of the vessel, named Dragonfly, at 142 meters, or 466 feet. That is 100 feet longer than a football field, including end zones. The boat is prominent enough to have its own profile page on Wikipedia.[x]
[i] “Forbes 400: The Definitive Ranking of America’s Richest People 2025.” Forbes. Accessed April 10, 2026. https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
[ii] Kavate, Michael. “Sergey Brin Emerges as a Climate Megafunder.” Inside Philanthropy. February 18, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/sergey-brin-emerges-as-a-climate-megafunder
[iii] Kavate, Michael. “Sergey Brin Emerges as a Climate Megafunder.” Inside Philanthropy. February 18, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/sergey-brin-emerges-as-a-climate-megafunder
[iv] Sergey Brin Family Foundation. (EIN: 47-2107200). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 8, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472107200/202533169349103858/full
Catalyst4 Inc. (EIN: 87-3323607). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 21, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873323607
[v] Sergey Brin Family Foundation. (EIN: 47-2107200). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 8, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472107200/202533169349103858/full
Catalyst4 Inc. (EIN: 87-3323607). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 21, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873323607
[vi] Sergey Brin Family Foundation. (EIN: 47-2107200). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 8, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472107200/202533169349103858/full
Catalyst4 Inc. (EIN: 87-3323607). 2024 IRS Form 990. Accessed April 21, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/873323607
[vii] Kavate, Michael. “Sergey Brin Emerges as a Climate Megafunder.” Inside Philanthropy. February 18, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/sergey-brin-emerges-as-a-climate-megafunder
[viii] Chakravarty, Sayan. “Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $450 million megayacht is so big that just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it quietly devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board.” LuxuryLaunches. November 13, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/dragonfly-megayacht-in-spain-11132025.php
[ix] Chakravarty, Sayan. “Docked in Spain, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s $450 million megayacht is so big that just to keep its air-conditioning, spa, and pools running, it quietly devours enough electricity every day to light up 580 average American homes, even when the billionaire is not on board.” LuxuryLaunches. November 13, 2025. Accessed April 7, 2026. https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/dragonfly-megayacht-in-spain-11132025.php
[x] “The Extraordinary Journey of the Yacht Dragonfly: From Alibaba to Sergey Brin’s new toy.” Superyacht Fan. https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/dragonfly/
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