2020 Grants


American Museum of Natural History

To support undergraduate, graduate or post-doc student biology research in the field through the Richard Gilder Graduate School

$10,000 | www.amnh.org


California Academy of Sciences

To support field-based research by one or more Lakeside Graduate Fellows

$10,000 | www.calacademy.org


Field Museum of Natural History

To support a graduate student in a field-based internship in the Monarch Community Science Program in 2021

$10,000 | www.fieldmuseum.org


Hidden Villa

To support general operations

$10,000 | www.hiddenvilla.org


Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin

To support the Maxwell Graduate Fellowship in Geophysics

$100,000 | www.jsg.utexas.edu


Marine Biological Laboratory

To support a field research experience at the MBL for students who do not otherwise qualify for existing funding

$10,000 | www.mbl.edu


Missouri Botanical Garden

To support graduate student fieldwork through the Graduate Studies Program

$10,000 | www.missouribotanicalgarden.org


National Geographic Society

To support the STEM Field Assistant Program

$10,000 | www.nationalgeographic.org


National Tropical Botanical Garden

To support a field-based research internship for an undergraduate or graduate student(s)

$10,000 | www.ntbg.org


New York Botanical Garden

To support undergraduate interns or graduate students to engage in field research along with NYBG botanists

$10,000 | www.nybg.org


Philanthropic Ventures Foundation

To support an Environmental Science Resource Grants Program for public school teachers in San Mateo County

$30,000 | www.venturesfoundation.org


Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

To support one student to participate in the 2021 summer Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), focused on marine biological sciences with a field research component

$10,000 | www.scripps.ucsd.edu


Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

To support a graduate student fellowship for 2021, for a student who is pursuing field-based research

$10,000 | www.serc.si.edu