Alliance for California Traditional Arts
To support apprenticeships in traditional material arts
$45,000 | 3 years | www.actaonline.org
Amah Mutsun Land Trust
To support The Native Stewardship Corps, native plant propagation and restoration, and general operations
$20,000 | 2 years | www.amahmutsun.org
American Craft Council
To support the Emerging Artists Cohort program
$15,000 | www.craftcouncil.org
American Museum of Natural History
To support undergraduate, graduate or post-doc student biology research in the field through the Richard Gilder Graduate School
$45,000 | 3 years | www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school
American Museum of Natural History
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate student at the AMNH Richard Gilder Graduate School (RGGS)
$10,000 | www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.andersonranch.org
Archbold Biological Station
To support the Post-Baccalaureate Internship Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.archbold-station.org
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.arrowmont.org
Association for Tropical Biology
To support the Seed Research Grant Program for graduate and PhD students with a focus on field biology
$15,000 | www.tropicalbiology.org
Brown Girl Surf, a project of Social Good Fund
To support Brown Girl Surf’s community surf programs and organizational development
$40,000 | 2 years | www.browngirlsurf.com
California Academy of Sciences
To support the Lakeside Graduate Fellows Program
$40,000 | 3 years | www.calacademy.org
California Academy of Sciences
To support the Thriving California Initiative
$100,000 | 2 years | www.calacademy.org
California Academy of Sciences
To support a scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, or graduate student in the California Academy of Sciences Herpetology department
$10,000 | www.calacademy.org
California Botanic Garden
To support undergraduate summer internships in Applied Plant Conservation at the California Botanic Garden
$45,000 | 3 years | www.calbg.org
California Botanic Garden
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate students
$10,000 | www.calbg.org
California College of the Arts
To support scholarship(s) for students focusing in ceramics, furniture, glass, jewelry & metal arts, or textiles, with a preference for students underrepresented in their craft
$45,000 | 3 years | www.cca.edu
California Institute of the Arts
To support the expansion of current infrastructure for the Institute’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) strategy as it relates to faculty development, to support the recruitment and retention of diverse students, faculty, and staff for programs at the intersection of the arts, design, and computer-based technology
$500,000 | 5 years | www.calarts.edu
California Native Plant Society
To support native plant conservation and biodiversity programs, including 30x30, wildfire resilience and recovery, and community-led science
$20,000 | www.cnps.org
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
To support the Teaching the Teachers program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.woodschool.org
Center for Craft
To support a Craft Teaching Award
$15,000 | www.centerforcraft.org
Coastal Quest
To support the Marine Protected Area (MPA) Outreach and Education Small Grants Program
$20,000 | www.coastal-quest.org
Coral Reef Alliance
To support reducing land-based sources of pollution in Hawaii
$40,000 | 2 years | www.coral.org
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
To support the “Get Ready” Grant Program that provides grants for the material and studio needs of professional craftspeople
$20,000 | www.cerfplus.org
Crafting the Future, a project of Penland School of Craft
To support Crafting the Future's scholarship program for 2-3 BIPOC students to attend craft workshops
$15,000 | www.craftingthefuture.org
Cranbrook Educational Community
To support Materials Grants to graduate students in Craft
$15,000 | www.cranbrook.edu
Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center (University of California)
To support the Elkus Ranch Fund
$15,000 | www.elkusranch.ucanr.edu
Environmental Grantmakers Association
To support the 2022 Environmental Fellows Program
Field Projects International
To support an undergraduate or graduate student intern in developing illustrations for the In Situ Laboratory initiative that offers a new global framework for monitoring animal health and safety at the human-wildlife interface
$10,000 | www.fieldprojects.org
Field Museum of Natural History
To support graduate students in a field-based internship for urban monarch and pollinator conservation
$45,000 | 3 years | www.fieldmuseum.org
Filoli Center
To support nature trail building and maintenance
$10,000 | www.filoli.org
Greenwich House
To support the Greenwich House Pottery Artists-in-Residence Program
$15,000 | www.greenwichhouse.org/pottery
Handweavers Guild of America
To support the HGA Scholarship Fund
$15,000 | www.weavespindye.org
Hawaiʻi Land Trust
To support the Māhukona project
$30,000 | www.hilt.org
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
To support four BIPOC fellowships for recipients to participate in two-week intensive studio workshops during the 2023 summer season
$15,000 | www.haystack-mtn.org
Hidden Villa
To support the Hidden Villa Summer Camp and/or Internship Programs
$45,000 | 3 years | www.hiddenvilla.org
Humboldt State University
To support a scientific illustration residency program for a recent graduate, graduate student, or undergraduate who will work in collaboration with faculty from the departments of Art + Film and Biological Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt
$10,000 | www.humboldt.edu
Institute of American Indian Arts
To support scholarship(s) for undergraduate students majoring in Studio Arts
$45,000 | 3 years | www.iaia.edu
Krenov Foundation
To support scholarship(s) for women in the nine-month program in fine cabinet and furniture making
$45,000 | 3 years | www.thekrenovschool.org
Latino Outdoors, a project of Community Initiatives
To support Latino Outdoors' programs in California
$40,000 | 2 years | www.latinooutdoors.org
Marine Biological Laboratory
To support an undergraduate student(s) to pursue summer field research at the MBL
$45,000 | 3 years | www.mbl.edu
Minorities in Shark Sciences
To support recent college graduates and graduate students in a field-based internship studying sharks and rays
$15,000 | www.misselasmo.org
Minorities in Shark Sciences
To support a scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate or graduate student
$10,000 | www.misselasmo.org
Missouri Botanical Garden
To support field research of graduate students in the Graduate Studies Program
$15,000 | www.missouribotanicalgarden.org
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation
To support conservation research and education, focused in California
$50,000 | www.montereybayaquarium.org
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
To support the MBARI Summer Internship Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.mbari.org
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
To support the MBARI Science Illustration Internship Program
$10,000 | www.mbari.org
Morton Arboretum
To support the Integrated Mentorship Program at The Center for Tree Science
$15,000 | www.mortonarb.org
Mote Marine Laboratory
To support one or more students from underrepresented backgrounds to participate in the Mote Research Experience for Undergraduate Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.mote.org
National Geographic Society
To support STEM Field Assistant Program, and Level I and II National Geographic Grants for Explorers engaging in field-based natural science research
$300,000 | www.nationalgeographic.org
National Tropical Botanical Garden
To support a field-based research internship with National Tropical Botanical Garden for an undergraduate or graduate student(s) within conservation science of native Hawaiian plants
$45,000 | 3 years | www.ntbg.org
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
To support LIFT program awardees
$15,000 | www.nativeartsandcultures.org
NatureBridge
To support NatureBridge's California programs
$15,000 | www.naturebridge.org
New York Botanical Garden
To support undergraduate interns or graduate students to engage in field research along with NYBG botanists
$45,000 | 3 years | www.nybg.org
North Bennet Street School
To support Impact Scholarships for students in the full-time program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.nbss.edu
North House Folk School
To support the Internship Program
$15,000 | www.northhouse.org
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
To support the Prothero Internship
$45,000 | 3 years | www.nwswb.edu
Organization for Tropical Studies
To support the professional development of undergraduate or graduate students in the field of scientific illustration and provide real world experience that advances the mission of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
$10,000 | www.tropicalstudies.org
Outdoor Afro
To support California outdoor leadership and Making Waves programs, and general operations
$30,000 | 2 years | www.outdoorafro.com
Pa'i Foundation
To support the Nānā I Ke Kumu cultural workshop series with a focus on hands-on traditional arts
$45,000 | 3 years | www.paifoundation.org
Pacific Horticulture Society
To support general operations and science communicators
$15,000 | www.pacifichorticulture.org
Peninsula Open Space Trust
To support the Coyote Valley and Farmland programs
$200,000 | 2 years | www.openspacetrust.org
Penland School of Craft
To support scholarships for HBCU faculty at Penland School of Craft
$45,000 | 3 years | www.penland.org
Peters Valley School of Craft
To support the Artist Residency Program
$15,000 | www.petersvalley.org
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
To support 1) Visiting Artist, 2) Excursion and 3) Technology, Engineering and Design Thinking small grants programs for teachers in the Bay Area
$130,000 | 2 years | www.venturesfoundation.org
Pilchuck Glass School
To support Pilchuck's Artist in Residence (AiR) program
$15,000 | www.pilchuck.org
Planet Women
To support the West Coast cohort of the 100 Women Pathway project
$10,000 | www.planetwomen.org
Point Blue Conservation Science
To support the Education Program, including STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed), the Community College Conservation Internship Program, and/or intern training
$100,000 | 2 years | www.pointblue.org
Polynesian Voyaging Society
To support Moananuiākea – A Voyage for the Pacific, and organizational strengthening and leadership development
$50,000 | 2 years | www.hokulea.com
Rhode Island School of Design
To endow a Maxwell/Hanrahan Society of Presidential Fellowship
$1,000,000 | 4 years | www.risd.edu
Rhode Island School of Design
To support an expanded understanding of the cultural, social, and visual significance of movement by developing a paid, post-graduate research fellowship program for artists and scholars whose work engages with the study of and experimentation with movement at the intersection of race and culture
$500,000 | 4 years | www.risd.edu
San Francisco Botanical Garden
To support the High School Internship Program
$60,000 | 3 years | www.sfbg.org
San Francisco Botanical Garden
To support San Francisco Botanical Garden’s new nursery
$250,000 | www.sfbg.org
San Francisco Estuary Institute
To support the Shoreline Resilience focus area and urban green infrastructure projects
$15,000 | www.sfei.org
San Francisco State University
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate student(s)
$10,000 | www.eoscenter.sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University
To support up to two rising scholars at the Estuary & Ocean Science Center through the Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Sciences graduate program or the Diving into Ecology and Evolution undergraduate marine science immersion semester
$45,000 | 3 years | www.eoscenter.sfsu.edu
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
To support the Summer Conservation Internship
$45,000 | 3 years | www.sbbotanicgarden.org
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
To further the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's mission of conserving native plants through an illustration internship
$10,000 | www.sbbotanicgarden.org
Save the Redwoods League
To support at least two students' participation in the BIPOC Science Starter Grant Program
$15,000 | www.savetheredwoods.org
School for Advanced Research
To support SAR's Native American artist fellowship program, with a focus on material mastery
$15,000 | www.sarweb.org
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
To support a research fellowship for undergraduate or graduate students, focused on marine biological sciences with a field research component at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
$45,000 | 3 years | www.scripps.ucsd.edu
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
To support a scientific illustration internship in the Choy Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for undergraduate or graduate student(s), and/or those in early-career transitional phases that would enable them to progress to their next career stage
$10,000 | www.scripps.ucsd.edu
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
To support hands-on environmental science research projects by undergraduate students
$40,000 | 3 years | www.serc.si.edu
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
To support a scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate student focused on visualization of human-environment interactions
$10,000 | www.serc.si.edu
Society of Arts and Crafts
To support the Craft Innovation Jumpstarter Program
$45,000 | 3 years | www.societyofcrafts.org
Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths, a project of Shunpike
To support the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths’ Mini-Grant and Tool Grant programs
$10,000 | www.inclusiveblacksmiths.com
Sonoma Land Trust
To support Community Engagement and Education Programs, the Santa Rosa South East Greenway, and Investing in Nature-Based Solutions
$150,000 | 2 years | www.sonomalandtrust.org
Stanford University
To support undergraduate, graduate or post-doc intern(s) to pursue research that contributes to fulfilling the mission of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
$15,000 | www.jrbp.stanford.edu
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF College Foundation Inc.)
To support scholarships for field experiences at Cranberry Lake Biological Station
$15,000 | www.esf.edu/clbs
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF College Foundation Inc.)
To support scientific illustration internships at SUNY ESF Cranberry Lake Biological Station
$10,000 | www.esf.edu/clbs
Ten Strands
To support general operations
$15,000 | www.tenstrands.org
The Center for Cultural Innovation
To support CCI’s Quick Grant program that provides funds for California artists to participate in professional development activities
$20,000 | www.cciarts.org
The Furniture Society
To support the Local Resident Fellows as part of the Craft For a Greater Good communities program
$15,000 | www.furnsoc.org
The Nature Conservancy
To support Las Piletas acquisition
$100,000 | www.nature.org
The Nature Conservancy
To support California ocean resilience and recovery projects, with a focus on kelp, eelgrass and oysters
$15,000 | www.nature.org
Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants
General support
$15,000 | www.theodorepayne.org
Trust for Public Land
To support Trust for Public Land's Bay Area programs and initiatives, and support for the Deer Creek Beach project
$150,000 | 2 years | www.tpl.org
UC Natural Reserve System (University of California)
To support undergraduate students taking California Ecology and Conservation, a seven-week intensive field research course taught at UC Natural Reserves
$15,000 | www.ucnrs.org
UC Santa Barbara Foundation
To support the UC Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute's Research SCUBA Certification Program (DIVErsity in Diving)
$15,000 | www.msi.ucsb.edu
United States Artists
To support design and administration of the 2023 Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft
$696,900 | www.unitedstatesartists.org
University of Alaska
To support the Tamamta Fellows Program
$10,000 | www.tamamta.org
University of California at Santa Cruz
To support students to attend the CAMINO (The Center to Advance Mentored, Inquiry-based Opportunities) summer internship program, and to present their field-based research at scientific conferences
$45,000 | 3 years | www.camino.ucsc.edu
University of California at Santa Cruz
To support two scientific illustration internships for undergraduate students at UC-Santa Cruz's Norris Center for Natural History
$10,000 | www.norriscenter.ucsc.edu
University of Florida Foundation
To support the field research grant program for graduate/doctoral students with a focus on field biology through the Tropical Conservation and Development Program
$10,000 | www.uftcd.org
University of Hawaii Foundation
To support undergraduate and recent graduate Research Assistantships at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology for one or more students from underrepresented backgrounds
$30,000 | 3 years | www.uhfoundation.org
University of Hawaii Foundation
To support an internship program for a community college art student in collaboration with a marine biology graduate student (scientific partner) and a local professional artist (mentor) by creating a mural inspired by cultural research and conservation
$10,000 | www.uhfoundation.org
University of Maryland, College Park
To support the University of Maryland Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
$17,250 | www.crge.umd.edu
University of Washington Foundation
To support student(s) to attend the REU Blinks Program for Undergraduates and Post-Baccalaureates at Friday Harbor Laboratories
$30,000 | 3 years | www.fhl.uw.edu
WAI
To support community outreach & education and pilot projects
$15,000 | www.waicleanwater.org
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
To support the summer residency program for ceramic artists
$10,000 | www.watershedceramics.org
YMCA of San Francisco
To support the Nature Engagement Education Program and Outdoor Education Programs
$15,000 | www.ymcasf.org