Google co-founder Sergey Brin, a billionaire and prolific contributor of left-wing causes, wired millions of dollars to Rewiring America, a climate group pushing electrification policies with close ties to the Biden administration.
According to recently disclosed tax filings, Brin’s nonprofit, the Sergey Brin Family Foundation — which raked in a staggering $464 million in contributions in 2021, the most recent year with information — sent $4.5 million to the Windward Fund earmarked for “general operating support” for Rewiring America in 2021. The grant represents the largest known contribution to Rewiring America since the group was founded in 2020.
Rewiring America was established to “to help mobilize America to address climate change and jump-start the economy by electrifying everything,” Rewiring America co-founder Saul Griffith wrote in a September 2020 blog post. The group broadly argues in favor of electrifying homes and has pushed electric stoves as a replacement of gas…