These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization.
These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. The Foundation reviews applications twice a year; the deadlines are March 1 and August 1. Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline. Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.
Priorities
Regenerative and Organic Farming: Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety: Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Climate Justice: Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
Healthy Food Access: Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
Inclusive Outdoor Access: Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution: Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
Guidelines
Priority is given to applicants that:
Advance our strategic priorities and align with our values
Focus their work primarily in the United States and its organized incorporated territories
Demonstrate strong community ties
Have operating budgets under $3MM
Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage
Areas not funded
Capital construction
(construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
Deficit funding
Endowments
Faith-based or religious organizations
Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
Individuals
Local and state public sector or government agencies
Media projects (such as films, books, radio)
Medical Centers
Product donations
Sponsorships
Funding deadlines occur twice yearly: March 1 and August 1.
Organization priorities:
Regenerative and Organic Farming
Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety
Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
Climate Justice
Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
Healthy Food Access
Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
Inclusive Outdoor Access
Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution
Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.