WHAT WE DO

The Eddy Foundation began as an idea shared by Jamie Phillips and his mother, Elizabeth Eddy, as a way to do something meaningful with resources from the family estate. At first, the foundation focused on investing in conscious businesses and donating profits to conservation groups. But as Jamie’s passion for direct conservation work grew, The Eddy began protecting wildlands itself, beginning with land acquisition in the Adirondack Park and expanding into landscape connectivity, wildlife corridors, and partnerships with organizations such as the Wildlands Project.

The name “Eddy” began as a tribute to Elizabeth Eddy and the family lineage, but over time it took on a deeper meaning. In nature, an eddy is a circular current — a spiral movement within water or air that gathers energy, creates flow, and connects one movement to another. As The Eddy evolved, that spiral became a fitting symbol for the organization’s work: connecting land, people, wildlife, artists, scientists, and communities within the larger living systems of the Earth.