Funding Opportunities
Recreational Trails Program (RTP) Grants
The Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Fund is generated from Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Decal sales and gas tax revenues. These funds provide opportunities for OHV education, outreach, trail building, trail maintenance, law enforcement, signage, support facility development, as well as emergency repairs and vandalism prevention.
The Heritage Fund provides grant opportunities for trail projects, outdoor environmental education programs, local, regional, and state parks, as well as historic preservation projects through legislatively appropriated funds.
We believe that ambitious, rural-centric, climate grantmaking is needed now more than ever. That’s why our grant program is designed to provide critical funding and resources to grantees that are taking practical, community-focused and innovative actions to implement equitable climate solutions in rural America.
Enabling our grantees to focus on driving meaningful change in rural communities is paramount at Rural Climate Partnership. With the combined strength of pooled resources from foundations & donors, we offer general operating and project support grants to bolster the work of rural-led and rural-serving organizations. Our funding typically ranges from $20,000 to $100,000 for projects and from $75,000 to $150,000 for general operating support.
This program helps very small, financially distressed rural communities with predevelopment feasibility studies, design and technical assistance on proposed water and waste disposal projects.
The BoatUS Foundation Grassroots Grants Program provides grants to nonprofit organizations, boating clubs and student groups for projects that promote safe and/or clean boating.
The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year flexible, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, non-profit grassroots constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories.
The focus of the NGO program is to support grassroots activists working in their communities to achieve clearly defined social and environmental justice objectives. We are inspired by the Civil Rights legend John Lewis’ admonition: “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”
While we recognize the importance of direct service programs for those impacted by poverty and inequity, our priority is to support grassroots organizing activities that address the causes of those inequities. Therefore, we will not consider requests to support direct services to individuals.
The Frontline Justice Fund is a Tides Foundation environmental grantmaking initiative that equips communities impacted by climate environmental hazards with the critical resources they need to take on big polluters in the courtroom and beyond.
Launching on April 22, 2022, the Nonprofit Solar Project was developed by the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA) in partnership with local donors and Solar United Neighbors (SUN).
As part of CFSA’s Environmental Sustainability Impact Fund, the Nonprofit Solar Project offers local nonprofits the opportunity to meet a significant portion of their energy needs through solar power. Through the switch to solar, nonprofits will be able to reduce their carbon footprint and energy costs, freeing up resources for programming or other infrastructure needs.
The Public Participation (PP) Grant Account helps remove barriers to participation and provides compensation for organizations involved in CPUC activities and influence policy decisions. Grant account supports ESJ Action Plan by compensating Community-based organizations (CBOs) and Tribes for their contributions to CPUC.