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

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the Prothero Internship
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2022 Active

Organization For Tropical Studies

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
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
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Outdoor Afro

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
To support California outdoor leadership and Making Waves programs, and general operations
  • $30,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2022

Pacific Horticulture

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
To support general operations and science communicators
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Paʻi Foundation

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the Nana I Ke Kumu cultural workshop series with a focus on hands-on traditional arts
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2022 Active

Peninsula Open Space Trust

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support the Coyote Valley and Farmland programs
  • $200,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2022

Penland School of Craft

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support Crafting the Future's scholarship program for 2-3 BIPOC students to attend craft workshops
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Penland School of Craft

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support scholarships for HBCU faculty at Penland School of Craft
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2022 Active

Peters Valley School of Craft

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the Artist Residency Program
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation

Public School Teachers Classroom Grants
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
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Pilchuck Glass School

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support Pilchuck's Artist in Residence (AiR) program
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Planet Women

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
To support the West Coast cohort of the 100 Women Pathway project
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Point Blue Conservation Science

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
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
  • Granted in 2022

Polynesian Voyaging Society

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
To support Moananuiakea – A Voyage for the Pacific, and organizational strengthening and leadership development
  • $50,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2022

Regents of The University of California

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support undergraduate students taking California Ecology and Conservation, a seven-week intensive field research course taught at UC Natural Reserves
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Rhode Island School of Design

Diversity and Inclusion in Art, Design and Computing
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
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2022 Active

San Francisco Estuary Institute

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support the Shoreline Resilience focus area and urban green infrastructure projects
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

San Francisco State University

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
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
  • Granted in 2022 Active

San Francisco State University

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate student(s)
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support the Summer Conservation Internship
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2022 Active

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To further the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's mission of conserving native plants through an illustration internship
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Save The Redwoods League

Field Biology Field Research Fellowships and Internships
To support at least two students' participation in the BIPOC Science Starter Grant Program
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

School For Advanced Research

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support SAR's Native American artist fellowship program, with a focus on material mastery
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022

Shunpike

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths’ Mini-Grant and Tool Grant programs
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2022