Grants

The Foundation makes grants that support its broad interest areas of field-based science, art and craft, teaching, and protection of the natural world.

Active

Mote Marine Laboratory

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

National Geographic Society

Field Biology Small Grants for Field Biologists
To support Level I Grants for Explorers engaging in field-based natural science research; and the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship
  • $600,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Organization For Tropical Studies

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support 1-2 masters or postbaccalaureate students to pursue field research on forest plots
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Organization of Biological Field Stations

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support graduate students from member organizations in field-based research
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Regents of The University of California

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
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
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Regents of The University of Colorado – Boulder

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support two undergraduate students to pursue summer field research in the CU Boulder Mountain Research Station focused on alpine tundra
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a botanical or mycological illustration internship for undergraduate students or local artists to produce diagnostic line drawings at the National Herbarium of Victoria, in Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's Melbourne Gardens
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Sacnas

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support mentorship for students focused on field sciences, including attendance of the 2024 annual conference and research presentations
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

San Francisco State University

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate student(s)
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the STRI General Internship Program for students from underrepresented backgrounds focused on field biology research
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Stony Brook Foundation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support U.S. and Malagasy student participation in the field-based study abroad program at the Centre ValBio Research Facility in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Foundation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate students that will provide meaningful and hands-on experience in scientific illustration of a local, globally endangered parrot species with long cultural ties to the region
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the UC Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute's Research SCUBA Certification Program (DIVErsity in Diving)
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

University of California Santa Cruz

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support two to three scientific illustration internships for undergraduate students at UC-Santa Cruz's Norris Center for Natural History
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

University of Maryland Foundation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support undergraduate students to pursue a field-based internship with Maryland Sea Grant, with a focus on community college students
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

University of Montana Foundation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support two students in the Summer Internship Program at the Flathead Lake Biological Station focused on field biology research
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

University of Texas At El Paso (utep)

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support two undergraduate students per year conducting field research in ecology and evolutionary biology
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

University of Washington Foundation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support scientific illustration internships, residencies or opportunities for undergraduate, graduate students, or recent graduates at Friday Harbor Lab.
  • $5,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the Woods Hole Summer Student Fellowship Program
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Association For Tropical Biology and Conservation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the Seed Research Grant Program for graduate and PhD students with a focus on field biology
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2023 Active

Association For Tropical Biology and Conservation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for a graduate student working at the intersections of illustration, plant physiology, and restoration ecology; and another for an undergraduate student interested in pursuing a career in scientific illustration
  • $20,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2023

California Academy of Sciences

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate, post baccalaureate, or graduate student in the California Academy of Sciences Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2023

California Botanic Garden

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a summer-long scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate or graduate student or very early stage professional
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2023

California State University Channel Islands Foundation

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the community-based Service Learning field class research trip to Maui in January 2024
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2023

Compass For Youth

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the Community College Field Biology Alliance, to enable 15 undergraduates currently enrolled in community colleges in the greater Los Angeles area to participate in a 6-month long hybrid field research internship
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2023