Effort News的调查揭示，倡导去增长理念的NEEP项目及其支持机构P4NE（新经济伙伴组织）主要由19至20世纪初期的历史性家族财富提供资金支持[1]。这些资金来源包括C&A、罗氏制药、博世和盖蒂石油等百年老企业的继承人基金会[1]。
P4NE采取了隐蔽的资金管理方式，通过位于瑞士的慈善基金会将106支独立基金混合为单一基金，以掩盖各捐赠方的具体金额[1]。主要捐赠基金包括Laudes Foundation（C&A帝国，1841年）、MAVA Foundation（罗氏制药，1896年）、Robert Bosch Stiftung（博世，1886年）、Marisla Foundation（盖蒂石油，1903年）、Oak Foundation（免税购物，1960年）、Omidyar Network（eBay，1995年）、William and Flora Hewlett Foundation（惠普，1939年）和Ford Foundation（福特汽车，1903年）[1]。
NEEP项目提出了80项政策措施，涵盖最高收入限制、价格管制、工作保障和资源使用限制等内容[1]。Ford Foundation于2020年加入P4NE，William and Flora Hewlett Foundation于2023年加入后随即从合作伙伴名单中消失[1]。
An investigation by Effort News has revealed that the NEEP project, which advocates for degrowth policies, and its primary funder P4NE (Partners for a New Economy) are substantially backed by inherited wealth from 19th and early 20th-century industrial families.[1] The funding structure obscures individual donor contributions through a Swiss charitable foundation that consolidates 106 separate trusts into a single fund.[1]
The major foundations supporting this effort trace their origins to prominent industrial dynasties, including Laudes Foundation from the C&A retail empire (established 1841), MAVA Foundation from the Roche pharmaceutical family (1896), Robert Bosch Stiftung from the automotive manufacturer (1886), Marisla Foundation from Getty Oil (1903), Oak Foundation from tax-free shopping (1960), Omidyar Network from eBay (1995), the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from Hewlett-Packard (1939), and the Ford Foundation (1903).[1] P4NE's assets are held through a Swiss charitable foundation that merges these multiple trusts to conceal the specific contribution amounts from each donor.[1]
NEEP itself has proposed eighty policy measures aimed at restructuring economic systems, encompassing maximum income limits, price controls, employment guarantees, and restrictions on resource consumption.[1] The Ford Foundation joined P4NE in 2020, while the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation participated beginning in 2023 before subsequently removing itself from the organization's partner listings.[1]