Grant-Making Organizations
Listing of foundations and grant programs supporting environmental education, habitat conservation, advocacy and more. Be sure to visit our current grant opportunity section.
- Agua Fund
- Beirne Carter Foundation
- C.S. Mott
- Charlottesville Waldorf Foundation
- Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
- Dominion Foundation
- DonorsChoose
accepts project proposals from teachers and posts it to the website. Private donors can visit the website and choose which projects to fund.
- Doris Duke
- Energy Foundation
- EPA Enviromental Education Grants
are awarded annually to schools, nature centers, museums, and other nonprofit institutions. Provides professional development and training to educational providers including businesses, health care providers, community leaders, and adult populations.
- EPA Five-Star Restoration Program
The Five Star Restoration Program brings together citizen groups, corporations, youth conservation corps, students, landowners and government agencies to undertake projects that restore streambanks and wetlands. The program provides challenge grants, technical support, and peer information exchange to enable community-based restoration projects. - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
More than 3 federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE website. - Fund For Wild Nature
- Fundsnet Online Services
A comprehensive website dedicated to providing nonprofit organizations, colleges, and universities with information on financial resources available on the Internet. - Google.org
- GrantsAlert
GrantsAlert is a website that helps nonprofits, especially those involved in education, secure the funds they need to continue their important work. - GuideStar
- Home Depot Foundation
- Kendall Foundation
- Merck Family Fund
- Melinda Gray Ardia Foundation
provides grants of $1000 to educators to develop or implement environmental curricula. Prefer to support the actual development of a curriculum rather than provide funds to purchase equipment.
- National Geographic Society Education Foundation Teacher Grants
The primary purpose of the grants is to support individual teachers or teaching teams in the classroom, district or community for work in four areas: 1) exploring uses of new technologies; 2) expanding student experimental learning opportunities; 3) providing professional development and mentoring; and 4) engaging families and/or communities in education. Grant amounts vary from $500 to $5,000. For more information on these grants and their restrictions, visit www.nationalgeographic.com/foundation. - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) makes grants to preserve and restore our nation’s native wildlife species and habitats. NFWF directs public conservation dollars to the most pressing environmental needs and works with a full complement of individuals, foundations, government agencies, nonprofits, and corporations to identify and address the nation’s most intractable conservation challenges.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center has recently announced available funding for individual community-based habitat restoration projects under the Community-Based Restoration Program (CRP). The CRP is a financial and technical assistance program that funds grass-roots, community-based activities that restore living marine resources and their habitats, including anadramous species (like salmon and herring that spawn in freshwater and migrate to the ocean.) - Nonpoint Source Pollution Education Grants
In cooperation with Virginia Cooperative Extension and local soil and water conservation districts, DCR conducts an active educational program on nonpoint source (NPS) pollution management. An annual mini-grant program funds area field days, demonstrations, tours, workshops and other events that promote the implementation of best management practices that protect water quality. - Patagonia Grants
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Prince Charitable Trusts
- Robbins Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Rockefeller Family Fund
- School Funding Services Grant of the Week
Each week, School Funding Services, a division of New American Schools, features a new grant on its website. - School Grants
A collection of resources and tips to help K-12 educators apply for and obtain special grants for a variety of projects. - Surdna Foundation
- The Campbell Foundation
- The Meyer Foundation
- Tides Foundation
- Town Creek Foundation
- Tremaine Fnd.
- Turner Foundation,
- Wallace Genetic Foundation
- Wallace Global Fund
- WestWind Foundation