Sierra Club, EDF, and NRDC's big money

Environmentalists don't expect 'Boehner bump' - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

The sour economy, an exhausted donor base after this year’s climate bill debacle and leaders distracted by other big issues during the next two years undercut the conventional wisdom that a resurgent cast of environmental enemies equals more dough for the activists fighting them.
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The Sierra Club experienced what Bosso calls a “Gingrich bump” from 1994 to 1996, with revenue jumping from $38.5 million to $46.6 million, according to records he maintains using tax returns and annual reports. The amount kept growing during the Bush years, reaching more than $80 million by 2003.

The Environmental Defense Fund’s coffers also grew during that three-year period, from $21.2 million to $27 million. By 2007, with Democrats pushing for climate legislation in the House and Senate, EDF took in almost $95 million in revenue.

Like other groups battling Republicans, the Natural Resources Defense Council saw its budget grow from less than $17 million in fiscal 1991 to almost $56 million a decade later, at the start of the Bush administration. With the global warming bill beginning to move, NRDC saw its donations reach $75 million by 2007.