[1] Between 2006 and 2010, Wyss contributed $2.5 million to retire oil and gas leases that covered 110,000 acres of public land around the Rocky Mountain Front.

[12] During 2011–2013 the organization donated approximately $4.5 million to the Conservation Lands Foundation, where Hansjörg Wyss served as a founding board member.

[2] In 2012, the foundation contributed $4.5 million to The Trust for Public Land campaign to retire oil and natural gas leases covering 58,000 acres of the Wyoming Range.

[13] The foundation donated approximately $19 million in 2013, primarily funding conservation groups and non-governmental organizations working on land protection projects.

[17][18] The foundation donated more than 16,000 acres of alpine tundra and forest in the Făgăraș Mountains of Romania to Fundatia Conservation Carpathia.

[4] In mid 2018, the organization helped The Trust for Public Land retire federal oil and natural gas leases covering more than 24,000 acres near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

[27] The 30x30 plan has been criticized by some indigenous rights activists for potentially dispossessing human inhabitants from historically occupied land.

[38] In 2021, The New York Times reported that Hansjörg Wyss had "quietly created a sophisticated political operation to advance progressive policy initiatives and the Democrats who support them.

The goal of The Hub Project is to help Democrats be more effective at conveying their arguments through the news media and directly to voters.

[39] The Hub Project is part of Arabella Advisors, a leading vehicle for funneling "dark money" on the political left.

The New Venture Fund underwrites Acronym, which owns the Courier Newsroom, a group seeking to boost Democratic candidates through local news stories and advertising.