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

The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support the Learning Among the Oaks Program and the Land Conservation Program
  • $150,000
  • 2 Years
  • 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 Nature Conservancy

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support California ocean resilience and recovery projects, with a focus on seagrass and oysters
  • $150,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Oakland Public Education Fund

Public School Teachers Classroom Grants
To support the Teacher Supply Fund and/or the A-to-Z Fund
  • $150,000
  • 3 Years
  • 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 Trust For Hidden Villa

Resilient Ecosystems Connecting People and Nature
To support Summer Camp scholarships
  • $30,000
  • 2 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

The University Corporation San Francisco State

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support graduate or undergraduate students doing field research at the Estuary & Ocean Science Center
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

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 threatened wildlife of the Rio Grande Valley
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Walden Woods Project

Public School Teachers Teacher Experiences
To support Approaching Walden, a six-day professional development seminar for educators
  • $50,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Wildlands Conservancy

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support Eastern Sierra restoration planning and stewardship activities
  • $50,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Theodore Payne Foundation For Wild Flowers and Native Plants Inc.

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support the Local Source Initiative and the Seed and Bulb Program
  • $150,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Trust For Public Land

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support Bay Area programs and initiatives, specifically East Bay parks; California Green Schoolyards; and Hawai'i's Aloha 'Aina program, in partnership with other nonprofit organizations to create opportunity for land restoration and stewardship
  • $300,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

U C Santa Cruz Foundation

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support students to attend the CAMINO (Center to Advance Mentored, Inquiry-based Opportunities) summer internship program, and to present their field-based research at scientific conferences
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

U C Santa Cruz Foundation

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support a postdoc and graduate student in Antarctic field research
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Uncf

Public School Teachers New Teacher Pipeline
To support the UNCF Teacher Empowerment Fund, including awards for 70 first-year teachers per year
  • $2,000,000
  • 2 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 Hawaii Foundation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for an undergraduate student or recent graduate
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of Hawaii Foundation

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support undergraduate and graduate student field researchers at Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
  • $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

University of Maryland Foundation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support a scientific illustration internship for undergraduate or graduate students at Maryland Sea Grant to gain experience in scientific illustration and communication regarding topics in the coastal and marine sciences
  • $22,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of Puerto Rico

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support graduate students in field-based marine science research, focused on funds for transportation and field materials
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of Washington Foundation

Field Biology Fellowships and Internships
To support student(s) to attend the REU Blinks Program for Undergraduates and Post-Baccalaureates at Friday Harbor Laboratories
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

University of Washington Foundation

Field Biology Science Illustration Internships
To support scientific illustration internships for undergraduate, postgrad and graduate students at Friday Harbor Labs
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Wai

Resilient Ecosystems Protecting Important Places
To support outreach & education regarding coral reef health, wastewater workforce development and pilot projects
  • $75,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active