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

Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support an internship within Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust (ASFT's) Fisheries Workforce Development/Crew Training Program with projects including hosting a series of workshops and a mentorship program for entry-level and emerging fishermen
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2026 Active

Seed Savers Exchange

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support a hands-on internship focused on the science of regenerating and securing rare food crops, advancing the preservation of genetic diversity essential to climate-resilient agriculture
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2026 Active

American Heart Association

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support early-career fellows in exploring the intersections of food systems, health, culture and equity through engagement with the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Berea College

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Grow Appalachia in hosting a series of workshops or a mentorship program for early growers and beginning farmers
  • $75,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Chicago Botanic Garden

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Windy City Harvest's Apprenticeship & Farm Incubator program, which provides hands-on training in sustainable urban agriculture for early-career participants
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Dillard University

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Dillard University Food Pantry Healthy Corner Internship Program
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025

Earth Matter Ny

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Urban Soils Institute to provide students with hands-on opportunities in building and restoring ecosystem-based food systems for food sovereignty
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Lift All Boats

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Lift All Boats Program
  • $30,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Aquaculture Internships for Massachusetts (AIM) Program, offering wraparound support, training, and hands-on experiences for early and prospective career aquaculturists
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Mountain Roots Food Project

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the NextGen|ReGen Beginning Farmer Training Program
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Movement Alliance Project

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Fishadelphia to host college students interns to engage with real world food systems work
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Nc State Center For Environmental Farming Systems

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Registered Agricultural Apprenticeship Program coordinated by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Pie Ranch

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Regenerator Program at Cascade Ranch and Youth Corps
  • $90,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Spelman College

Food Fellowships and Internships
To engage students in food and regenerative farming practices that reflect and preserve culture and heritage
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Land Institute

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Summer Research Assistant Program, offering hands-on learning in perennial agriculture for early-career participants
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the AQUANAUTS program
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The U C Davis Foundation

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Plant, Environmental and Agroecology Sciences (PEAS) Fellowship for undergraduate students, creating more inclusive pathways for research
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of California Berkeley Foundation

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars for Change Program with a focus on hands-on food research
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of Idaho Foundation

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center's summer internship program
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Berea College

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Grow Appalachia's hands-on learning with experienced farmers for new and beginning farmers aspiring to start their own farms
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Calypso Farm and Ecology Center

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Community Roots Program, an urban agriculture training program for teens and young adults
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Earth Island Institute

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support a Food Shift internship(s) focused on maximizing food use for the community through food recovery
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Friends of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support Fishadelphia’s after-school program for high school students to learn about sustainable seafood
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Friends of Zenger Farm

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support the Beginning Farmer Apprenticeship Program
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Ho’okua’ina

Food Fellowships and Internships
To support seasonal interns in spending 10 weeks on the farm to gain hands-on experience learning ancient Hawaiian traditional methods of farming, important cultural lessons and life skills
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active