Best Buy Children's Foundation
The BBCF awards grants to nonprofit organizations that take an innovative approach to building life skills in young people through education, mentoring, and leadership development. Funding is directed to multicultural programs located in Best Buy market areas for children ages 5 to 18. Deadline: 2/15, 5/15, 8/15, 11/15/2002
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Environmental Grantmaking Foundations 3167

A directory of resources for nonprofit organizations looking for grants to support environmental activities and programs published by Resources for Global Sustainability, Inc.

Vancouver Foundation (BC) 573

Through the growth and stewardship of permanent endowment funds and the distribution of income to a broad range of eligible organizations, Vancouver Foundation, in meeting community needs, provides philanthropic leadership to improve the quality of life for all British Columbians.

A Territory Resource Foundation (WA) 334

The foundation provides essential resources to organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming to strengthen grassroots efforts in the broad-based movement for progressive, systemic social change.

 

Achelis Foundation, (NY) 335

The Achelis Foundation concentrates its grant program in New York City. The Bodman Foundation also focuses its grant program in New York City, but occasionally awards grants in northern New Jersey in memory of the Bodmans. Both Foundations fund youth, rehabilitation, biomedical research, child welfare, major cultural institutions, hospitals and health care, social services, alcohol and drug abuse, father absence and responsible fatherhood, and education.

Albert A. List Foundation,  (NY) 480

The List Foundation achieves its mission through grantmaking in three major program areas: Democracy and Citizen Participation, Freedom of Expression, and New Problems/New Solutions. The Albert A. List Foundation currently funds organizations that foster citizen participation in the democratic process.
 

Albuquerque Community Foundation (NM) 336

Albuquerque Community Foundation is a nonprofit, publicly-supported philanthropic institution that manages a pool of charitable funds whose income is used to benefit the greater Albuquerque community in grants to nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and scholarships.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,. (NY) 553

The Foundation's programs and interests are divided into four: Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance and Education and Careers in Science and Technology.
 

Allen Foundation, Inc. (MI) 339

Grants are strictly limited under the terms of the charter to projects that benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.

Alliance Healthcare Foundation (CA) 340

Alliance Healthcare Foundation focuses on improving the healthcare delivery system for the medically under-served, primarily in San Diego County and in selected communities throughout California.

American Express Company (NY) 343

American Express supports initiatives that reflect their funding priorities: Community Service, Cultural Heritage and Economic Independence

American Honda Foundation (CA) 344

For the past 40 years, Honda has made it a priority to give back to the community. They wish to be a contributing member, both economically and socially, to each community in which they do business.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, (NY) 494

The Foundation currently makes grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; in cultural affairs and the performing arts; in population; in conservation and the environment; and in public affairs.

 

Arthur Vinin Davis Foundations, (FL) 398

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, based in Florida, makes grants to certain educational, cultural, scientific and religious institutions primarily in the areas of private higher education, secondary education, graduate theological education, health care (caring attitudes) and public television.

AT&T Foundation (NY) 347

The AT&T Foundation invests globally in projects that are at the intersection of community needs and AT&T's business interests. Emphasis is placed on programs that serve the needs of people in communities where AT&T has a significant business presence, initiatives that use technology in innovative ways, and programs in which AT&T employees are actively involved as contributors or volunteers.

Beldon Fund (NY) 352

By supporting effective, nonprofit advocacy organizations, the Beldon Fund seeks to build a national consensus to achieve and sustain a healthy planet. The Fund plans to invest its entire principal and earnings by 2009 to attain this goal.

Ben & Jerry's Foundation (VT) 353

The Ben & Jerry's Foundation offers competitive grants to not-for-profit, grassroots organizations throughout the United States which facilitate progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems.

 

Blandin Foundation, (MN) 356

The mission of the Blandin Foundation is to strengthen rural Minnesota communities.

Bodman Foundation (NY) 357

The Achelis Foundation concentrates its grant program in New York City. The Bodman Foundation also focuses its grant program in New York City, but occasionally awards grants in northern New Jersey in memory of the Bodmans. Both Foundations fund youth, rehabilitation, biomedical research, child welfare, major cultural institutions, hospitals and health care, social services, alcohol and drug abuse, father absence and responsible fatherhood, and education.

Boeing Company (WA) 358

The Boeing Company is committed to improving the quality of life in the communities in which it operates.

Boston Foundation (MA) 360

Through this framework, the Foundation makes grants to ongoing programs and special projects that help children and their families gain access to all of the basic ingredients that are necessary to overcome poverty and to support a decent and fulfilling life in the Greater Boston community .

 

Boston Globe Foundation (MA) 361

The Foundation primarily supports programs and operations of well-managed, financially viable charitable organizations based in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Chelsea that serve youth ages 0-22 who live primarily in low-income neighborhoods.

Brainerd Foundation (WA) 363

The Brainerd Foundation's mission is to protect the environmental quality of the Pacific Northwest and to build broad citizen support for environmental protection. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory comprise their geographic funding region.


 

Bullitt Foundation, (WA) 367

The Bullitt Foundation is committed to the protection and restoration of the environment of the Pacific Northwest. This commitment includes environmental problems that disproportionately impact lower-economic people in both urban and rural communities. The Foundation invites proposals from nonprofit organizations that serve Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, western Montana (including the Rocky Mountain Range), and the rain forest region of southern Alaska.

Captain Planet Foundation (GA) 369

The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to fund and support hands-on environmental projects for children and youths.

Cargill Foundation (MN) 370

Cargill's grantmaking mission is to foster economic, social and human development in each of the communities where Cargill has a business presence to help people achieve their full potential as individuals and as contributing members of society.

 

Carnegie Corporation of New York (NY) 372

The Carnegie Corporation makes grants to support initiatives in Education, International Peace and Security, International Development, Strengthening U.S. Democracy.

Center for Ecoliteracy (CA) 416

Through a grant-making program, the Center for Ecoliteracy nurtures school communities and educational organizations in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region engaged in fostering the experience and understanding of the natural world

Ceridian Corporation (MN) 376

Champlin Foundations, (RI) 377

The Foundations make direct grants for capital needs to tax exempt organizations, substantially all in Rhode Island. Typical capital needs are the purchase of equipment, construction, renovations, purchases of real property, and reduction of mortgage indebtedness.
 

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, (MN) 479

Lindbergh Grants are made in the following categories: agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources; education; exploration; health and adaptive technology; and waste minimization and management.
 

Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, (CT) 396

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, (MI) 504

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a private foundation based in Flint, Michigan, with grantmaking offices in Prague, Czech Republic, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty.
 

Chesapeake Bay Trust (MD) 378

The Chesapeake Bay Trust offers grants for qualified activities proposed by nonprofit organizations, community associations, civic groups, schools and public agencies which contribute to the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.

 

ChevronTexaco Corporation (CA) 379

Church and Dwight Company (NJ) 380

Columbus Foundation (OH) 384

The Columbus Foundation accepts proposals for grants in each of seven broad program fields: Education, Health, Social Services, Advancing Philanthropy, Urban Affairs, Conservation, and Arts and Humanities.

Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro (NC) 386

Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County (CA) 388

The Foundation grants provide support to nonprofit organizations involved in arts and humanities, community development, education, the environment, health, historic preservation, and human services. They also supports projects in specific program areas, such as the Vecinos Project, Youth Grants, LGBT Community Funding Project, and Scholarships.

Community Foundation Silicon Valley 390

Grants must benefit residents of the service area of Santa Clara and southern San Mateo Counties. Their Focus Areas are: Arts and Cultural Participation, Education and Lifelong Learning, Self Reliant Individuals and Families, Neighborhoods and Civic Engagement, Innovative Application of Technology.
 

Compaq Computer Corporation (TX) 385

Contribution resources are targeted to support charitable organizations that are located in communities where the company has significant business, facility/site and employee presence.

Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, (MA) 391

The Foundation is especially interested in supporting projects which lead to the transfer of responsibility to the citizens of developing countries for managing and solving their own problems and developing the capacity of local organizations. Preference will be given to projects, including research projects, in areas that tend to be under-funded.

 

Cooper Foundation (NE) 392

Funds projects in Nebraska, primarily in Lincoln and Lancaster County. Focus areas include: Education, Human Services, Arts and Humanitites, Environment

 

Cottonwood Foundation (MN) 394

Cottonwood Foundation is dedicated to promoting empowerment of people, protection of the environment, and respect for cultural diversity. The foundation focuses its funding on committed, grass roots organizations that rely strongly on volunteer efforts and where foundation support will make a significant difference.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation, (CA) 527

The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas: conservation; population; science; children, families, and communities; arts; and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy.

Dayton Foundation (OH) 399

The Dayton Foundation welcomes grant requests from organizations that benefit citizens in the Dayton/Miami Valley region only and that are recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
 

Dayton Hudson Foundation (MN) 400

DEKALB Genetics Foundation (IL) 401

Denver Foundation (CO) 402

The Denver Foundation has two primary functions. First, it invests funds received from donors and distributes those investment earnings to non-profit organizations throughout the community. Second, it manages and administers funds for individuals or families that have specific charitable objectives.
 

Detroit Edison Foundation (MI) 403

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (NY) 407

Grants are either competitively awarded through Request for Proposal (RFP) processes or are initiated by the Foundation. The Foundation generally awards multi-year grants that range from $300,000 to $2 million, as illustrated by the list of grants awarded.

Duke Endowment, (NC) 408

The Endowment's mission is to serve the people of North Carolina and South Carolina by supporting selected programs of higher education, health care, children's welfare, and spiritual life.

Dunn Foundation (RI) 409

The Dunn Foundation is particularly concerned with the impacts sprawl is having on community character and the visual quality of our communities, landscapes, streets, and neighborhoods. Therefore, our grants program is intended to foster visually distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.

 

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DE) 411

Eastman Kodak Company (NY) 412

Programs and initiatives are focused to instill employee pride, build public trust, foster education, respond to community needs and enhance company image.

eBay Foundation (CA) 414

eBay Foundation™ is to support effective non-profit organizations that help create a world where people have the skills, tools, motivation and community support to help themselves. Projects must have a technology orientation and can be local or global in scope.

Echoing Green Foundation (NY) 415

Echoing Green is a non-profit Foundation that offers full-time Fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs.

Educational Communications Scholarship Foundation (IL) 417

Through two separate programs, The Educational Communications Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, funded substantially by the publishing company, awards 250 students scholarships of $1,000 each, for a total of $250,000 annually.
 

El Paso Community Foundation (TX) 418

El Paso Community Foundation was established in 1977 as a permanent endowment for the long-term benefit of Far West Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It serves as a charitable resource to donors, nonprofit organizations and the community at-large.

El Pomar Foundation (CO) 419

El Pomar Foundation was established in 1937, by Spencer and Julie Penrose, to provide resources and opportunities for all future generations of Coloradans. This general-purpose foundation supports nonprofit organizations that work in the arts and humanities, education, health, human services, and civic and community initiatives.

Energy Foundation (CA) 420

The Energy Foundation is a partnership of major foundations interested in sustainable energy.

Fannie Mae Foundation (DC) 422

The Fannie Mae Foundation nurtures community growth and development through a variety of grants and fellowships each year.

Fields Pond Foundation (MA) 424

The primary mission of Fields Pond Foundation is to provide financial assistance to nature and land conservation organizations which are community-based and which serve to increase environmental awareness by involving local residents in conservation issues.

Ford Foundation (NY) 425

The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to: Strengthen democratic values, Reduce poverty and injustice, Promote international cooperation and Advance human achievement.

Foundation for the Carolinas (NC) 427

the Foundation is a multi-faceted grantmaking program with the majority of grants awarded in Mecklenburg County.
 

Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation, (FL) 354

The Foundation provides grants for a variety of programs. Organizational eligibility can be verified online.

Frey Foundation (MI) 430

Most of the Foundation's grantmaking falls into five focus areas: Encouraging Civic Progress, Enhancing the Lives of Children and Their Families, Nurturing Community Arts, Protecting the Environment, Strengthening Philanthropy.


 

Friends of the Environment Foundation (BC) 431

The purpose of the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation Community Fund is to provide funding support for worthwhile community-based initiatives that make a positive difference to the Canadian environment.

Fund for the City of New York, Inc. (NY) 432

The Fund for the City of New York is a private operating foundation with the intention of improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers. The Fund introduces and helps to implement innovations in policy, programs, practice and technology in order to advance the functioning of government and nonprofit organizations in New York City and beyond.


 

Funding Exchange (NY) 434

A partnership of activists and donors dedicated to building a base of support for progressive social change through fundraising for local, national and international grantmaking programs.

Gates Family Foundation (CO) 436

The purpose of the Foundation is to enhance the quality of life of those who live and work in Colorado through activities that promote broad education, self-sufficiency, connection to nature, and cultural appreciation.

GE Fund (CT) 438

George Gund Foundation, (OH) 452

Grants made primarily for projects in the Greater Clevelend area for the Environment, the Arts, Civic Affairs, Economic Development & Revitalization, Education, Human Services.

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,  (NJ) 404

Grants given for New Jersey initiatives in the following categories: Arts, Education, Morris County, Critical Issues, Welfare of Animals.

German Marshall Fund of the United States (DC) 442

GMF has a total grantmaking budget of approximately $10 million of which $2 million is spent on GMF-managed fellowships. The remainder is allocated for grants in the areas of Economics, Environment, Immigration and Integration, and Foreign Policy.

Give to the Earth Foundation (MN) 443

Global Greengrants Fund 371

The mission of the Global Greengrants Fund is to help protect the global environment by strengthening the grassroots environmental movement in developing countries with small grants. The Global Greengrants Fund supports a wide range of community-based initiatives that protect the environment in the most underserved and threatened regions on Earth.

Goldman Environmental Foundation (CA) 446

The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists.

 

Great Lakes Protection Fund (IL) 448

The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the Governors of the Great Lakes States. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem.

 

Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation (IA) 449

The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, a publicly-supported charitable foundation, exists for the good of all citizens of Cedar Rapids and the communities of Linn County.

Greater Worcester Foundation (MA) 450

By focusing on the entire community rather than on any specific issue, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation is able to address matters of greatest importance to the people of this region. They build flexible, permanent capital to serve the region now and in the future.
 

Greenville Foundation, (CA) 451

The Greenville Foundation normally provides support for special projects, not for general operations. Current funding interests are education, environment, human and social issues, international, and religion.

Harold K. L. Castle Foundation, (HI) 373

Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation (HI) 453

The primary purpose of the foundation is to award grants to 501 (c) (3) organizations in the State of Hawaii in the categories of Education, Family Services, Environment, and Community Development

Heinz Endowments (PA) 456

The Foundation's mission is to help southwestern Pennsylvania thrive as a whole community—economically, ecologically, educationally, and culturally—while advancing they work.

Henry M. Jackson Foundation (WA) 465

Grants given for programs in International Affairs, Environment, Public Service, and Human Rights. Primary focus on the Pacific Northwest and Russia (Human Rights).

Hershey Foundation, The (OH) 457

The Hershey Foundation is dedicated to providing Northeast Ohio children from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds with special opportunities for personal growth and development.

Home Depot, (GA) 459

The Home Depot is committed to giving back to the communities where their associates and customers live and work. Emphasis is on affordable housing, at-risk youth, the environment, and disaster preparedness and relief.

Houston Endowment, (TX) 460

Priority placed on organizations and programs serving the people of the Houston area and the State of Texas. The Foundation supports a wide variety of charitable activities, including education, health, arts and cultural, human service, and civic and environmental programs.


 

IBM Corporation (NY) 461

IBM Corporation's main focus is Education. Smaller grants in the areas of Adult Education and Workforce Development, Arts and Culture, Communities in Need, and the Environment are also provided.

Indianapolis Foundation (IN) 462

The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of Central Indiana Community Foundation, serves the Indianapolis and Marion County area by providing donors a vehicle for using their gifts in the most effective ways.

 

J. C. Penney Company, (TX) 532

Funding emphasis is given to projects/organizations that serve a broad sector of the community; national projects that have a multiplier effect by benefiting local organizations across the country; organizations that provide direct services to their client populations; projects/organizations with a proven record of success.
 

J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. (NY) 503

James Irvine Foundation, (CA) 463

The Foundation offers grants for a variety of projects including Sustainable Communities. All projects must benefit California.

Jennifer Altman Foundation (CA) 341

The Jennifer Altman Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to the vision of a socially just and ecologically sustainable future through program interests in environmental health and mind-body health.

Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, (MA) 395

Jessie Ball duPont Fund, (FL) 410

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (NY) 522

The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is committed to protecting and restoring Earth's natural systems and promoting a sustainable society by strengthening individuals, institutions and communities pledged to pursuing those goals. The Foundation makes grants primarily in the areas of environment and reproductive rights.
 

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (IL) 483

The Foundation gives grants in the areas of Human and Community Development, Global Security and Sustainability and other general projects that fit the mission.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, (CA) 454

Each year, the Foundation distributes up to $3 million in grants and scholarships to various institutions — most of them local. These funds, in turn, are used to encourage study and research into the underlying causes of social problems in Los Angeles and to recommend ways of addressing them.
 

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, (FL) 473

Local grants in the Knight Community Partners Program improve the quality of life in the Foundation's 26 communities listed on the website.

Johnson Foundation, (WI) 466

The Johnson Foundation serves as a private operating foundation, making use of its resources to convene conferences on issues selected as priorities by its Board of Trustees, either on its own initiative or in response to proposals from non-profit organizations that share the goals of the Foundation.

 

Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, (GA) 580

The grant program of the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation reflects a strong emphasis on basic human services, particularly organizations and programs that benefit children and youth in metropolitan Atlanta.

Joyce Foundation, (IL) 469

Grants are given for work affecting the Great Lakes Region in the program areas of Eduncation, Environment, Employment, Gun Violence, Money & Politics, and Culture.

Joyce  Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, (NY) 496

The Foundation gives grants for projects relating to Energy, Human Rights, Israel & Palestine, and New York.

Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation (WA) 474

The Foundation limits grants to Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana in the areas of Enviornmental Protection & Conservation, Human Rights, Civic Development, Arts & Humanities, and Technical Assistance.

Kresge Foundation, (MI) 475

Grants given to build facilities and to challenge private giving, upgrade and endow scientific equipment, support strategic investment in Detroit and Southeastern Michigan, develop permanent endowment assets for community foundations and nonprofit organizations and to support the advancement efforts at historically Black colleges and universities.
 

Laird Norton Endowment Foundation (WA) 477

The foundation funds distinctive programs in conservation and forestry education in the United States.


 

Levi Strauss & Co. (CA) 478

Levi Strauss provides support to communities where they have a business presence through employees' community-involvement programs.

Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, (NY) 575

The Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds seek to create opportunities for people to enrich themselves through better schools, enhanced community activities, and participation in the arts.
 

LL Bean (ME) 351

Ludwick Family Foundation (CA) 481

Grants given to provide new vehicles or equipment, equipment replacement and modernization, improvements to facilities, and educational materials for organizations in the United States (majority California)

Luso American Development Foundation (Portugal) 482

M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, (WA) 506

The Trust's mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by providing grants to organizations that seek to strengthen the region's educational and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways.


 

Maine Community Foundation (ME) 484

The Foundation supports any qualified non-profit or public organization in Maine in working in healthcare, the arts, social services and education.

Manitou Foundation (CO) 486

Manitou Foundation has provided land grants and some financial support in Crestone/Baca, Colorado, in 1995, the Foundation shifted its focus to the research and development of a comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan, to place most of its remaining land holdings into permanent conservation.

 

Marin Community Foundation (CA) 485

MCF makes loans to local nonprofits, and honors individuals and groups for their outstanding work to improve the Marin County community.

Mary Owen Borden Foundation, (NJ) 359

The Foundation has limited its new funding to New Jersey's Mercer and Monmouth counties. The primary focus on current giving is to address the needs of disadvantaged youth and their families.

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, (NC) 348

The Foundation will place special emphasis on community-building that seeks to assure the well being of children, youth and families; bridge the fault lines of race and class; and invest in communities' human and natural resources. Geographically limited to the Southeast US.
 

Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MA) 487

Trust funding programs are designed to encourage grassroots activity, to address specific environmental needs and to stimulate cooperative activity among environmental entities.
Geographically limited to Massachussetts.

McCarthy Family Foundation (CA) 488

Grantmaking limited to San Diego and Los Angeles counties in a variety of project areas including Environmental Protection.

McKesson Foundation (CA) 491

The McKesson Foundation seeks to enhance the health and quality of life in communities where McKesson Corporation operates and its employees live. Thier emphasis is focused on youth, especially health services for underserved populations, educational enrichment, recreation and youth development activities.

McKnight Foundation, (MN) 492

Grants are given for a variety of purposes through several programs including one focused on the environment.

Meadows Foundation, (TX) 493

The Foundation provides funding assistance throughout the state of Texas but tries to allocate between one-third and one-half of its grants resources to organizations helping those in the Dallas area.

Merck Family Fund (MA) 495

The Fund has two areas of priority to help achieve a healthy planet. The first is the protection of vital ecosystems in the eastern US. The second is supporting the shift towards environmentally sustainable economic systems, incentives, and behaviors.

Metropolitan Life Foundation (NY) 497

Meyer Memorial Trust (OR) 498

The Meyer Memorial Trust invites proposals for its grantmaking programs from qualified tax-exempt applicants in Oregon and Clark County, Washington.

Milwaukee Foundation (WI) 499

Minneapolis Foundation (MN) 500

The Minneapolis Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life for children, youth and families in the Twin Cities region, particularly those living in poverty.

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, Co. (MN) 501

Mitchell Kapor Foundation (CA) 471

The Foundation accepts applications for grants in the Environmental Health Program, the Level Playing Field Program, and the Program on the Impact of Information Technology.

Monsanto Fund (MO) 502

At Monsanto, global contributions looks at projects that relate to the areas of emphasis of Monsanto businesses; agricultural abundance; science education and literacy; the environment; and the communities where their people live and work.

 

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, (DC) 368

Grants given for projects directly benefiting the Washington, DC community in the areas of Community Service, Education, Eealth, and Arts & Humanities.

Mountaineers Foundation (WA) 505

The Mountaineers Foundation promotes the study of the mountains, forests, and streams of the Pacific Northwest, and contributes to the preservation of its natural beauty and ecological integrity.

Nathan Cummings Foundation, (NY) 397

The Foundation's Environment program includes an accountability approach that will seek to address the root causes of environmental degradation. Funding priority will be given to projects with the potential of having state, multi-state, or national impacts.
 

National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (DC) 508

NEETF gives challenge grants to innovative environmental education programs, and recognizes outstanding achievement in the field.
 

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) 507

The Foundation awards challenge grants to projects that address priority actions promoting fish and wildlife conservation and the habitats on which they depend, work proactively to involve other conservation and community interests, leverage Foundation-provided funding, and evaluate project outcomes. Federal, state, and local governments, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations are welcomed to apply.

National Park Foundation, The (DC) 511

NPF is the only national organization offering "seed" and challenge grant support directly to the National Parks.

Needmor Fund, (CO) 512

The mission of the Needmor Fund is to work with others to bring about social justice.

New England Biolabs Foundation (NEBF) 3921

NEBF is an independent private foundation founded in 1982 by the president of New England Biolabs, Inc. to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education, and science.

New England Forestry Foundation (MA) 513

The Foundation is dedicated to the conservation and management of New England's working forests for ecological, economical, and social benefits.

New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (VT) 514

The New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF) is a small grants program designed to foster and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It provides grants of up to $2,500 to fuel civic engagement, local activism, and social change.
 

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (NH) 515

Grant programs are designed to strengthen New Hampshire communities through the nonprofit sector.

Norcross Wildlife Foundation, (NY) 517

Norcross makes restricted grants, mostly for land protection, program related office and field equipment, public-education and outreach materials. They support a limited amount of community-service work, confined to the NYC metro area and the towns surrounding the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary.

Norman Foundation (NY) 519

The Norman Foundation supports efforts that strengthen the ability of communities to determine their own economic, environmental and social well-being, and that help people control those forces that affect their lives.

Northwest Area Foundation (MN) 520

Northwest Area Foundation’s mission focuses all the Foundation’s resources on helping communities in an eight-state region reduce poverty. (Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon)

Northwest Fund for the Environment, (WA) 521

Open Society Institute (NY) 523

Orchard Foundation, The (MA/ME) 524

The Orchard Foundation makes grants to non-profit organizations concerned with the environment and children, youth and families in New York and New England. The foundation also funds, on a very small scale, organizations concerned with campaign finance reform at the state level.

Ottinger Foundation, (MA) 525

The Ottinger Foundation supports organizations that address structural or root causes of social problems and focus on systemic social change rather than direct services

Otto Bremer Foundation, (MN) 364

The mission of the Otto Bremer Foundation is to promote human rights and create opportunities for economic and social justice in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Outdoor Industry Conservation Alliance (WA) 526

PADI Foundation (CA) 528

The PADI FOUNDATION encourages and supports underwater science, environmental projects, and education. The Foundation will fund and assist worthwhile projects that will enrich mankind's understanding of the aquatic environment and encourage sensitivity to and protection of the delicate ecological balance of underwater life.

Partnership for Narragansett Bay (RI) 3924

To serve as a continuing forum to build consensus regarding the future of Narragansett Bay, grounded in good science, and shaped by the widest possible public input.

Patagonia, Inc. (CA) 529

Patagonia funds only environmental work. They are most interested in making grants to organizations that identify and work on the root causes of problems and that approach issues with a commitment to long-term change.

Paul G Allen Charitable Foundation, (WA) 337

The Paul G. Allen Foundations support worthwhile activities that promote real change in the many communities they serve. Funding programs include innovative arts, medical and charitable groups, forest protection, virtual education and music.
 

Paul G Allen Forest Protection Foundation, (WA) 338

The foundation focuses its grantmaking on the acquisition of old growth and other critical forest lands. Priority is given to projects that protect forest lands with a strategic biological value, that extend or preserve wildlife habitat, and, where possible, offer opportunities for public recreation and education.

Peninsula Community Foundation (CA) 530

Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation (MA) 534

Pfizer (NY) 535

Pfizer Inc contributes funds through its Corporate Philanthropy Programs and through its business divisions. Funding is often directed to communities where Pfizer has a major presence.

Planktos Foundation 3920

The Planktos Foundation exists to foster Research and Stewardship of the environment in the oceans and on earth. They actively seek out and work with progressive "New Environmentalists" who are dedicated to and share their ideas and goals.

 

Procter & Gamble Fund (OH) 536

Public Welfare Foundation, (DC) 537

Grants have been awarded in the areas of criminal justice, disadvantaged elderly and youth, environment, population, health, community and economic development, human rights and technology assistance.

Regional Institute for Environmental Technology (Asia) 539

The Regional Institute for Environmental Technology (Asia) mission is to assist Asian economies learn to integrate sound environmental management policies and practices into their economic development is to help Asia leap-frog economically and provide sustainable employment and welfare to the young, large and dynamic population of the region.

Rhode Island Foundation (RI) 540

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund, The (CA) 447

The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund is interested in supporting programs that will have a significant positive impact in an array of fields, including: the Environment, Population, Jewish Affairs, Violence Prevention, Children and Youth, the Elderly, and Social and Human Services.

 

Richard Ivey Foundation (ON) 464

Guidelines vary with each of the granting programs: biodiversity in forest- dominated ecosystems, information technology in health care and the general program.
 

Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation (NH) 560

The Foundation mission is to identify and nurture those individuals who have the ability and determination to make a significant environmental impact and to support projects which will have direct, early and measurable results in improving the quality of our natural environment.
 

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, (NY) 382

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, (GA) 585

Traditionally, preference has been given to one-time capital projects and to other extraordinary needs of well established public charities. Funded programs include those dealing with the environment and conservation.

Rochester Area Community Foundation (NY) 541

Rochester Area Community Foundation is a nonprofit grant making institution that helps preserve and enhance the quality of life in the Genesee Valley region of upstate New York.
 

Rockefeller Brothers Fund (NY) 542

Grantmaking for program areas includes sustainable resource use, global security, education, health, and New York City.

Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc. (NY) 543

The Family Fund's Environment program emphasizes conservation of natural resources, protection of health as affected by the environment, meaningful implementation and enforcement of the nation's environmental laws, the cessation and cleanup of pollution caused by the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, and public participation in national environmental policy debates.

Rockefeller Foundation, (NY) 544

Rotary Charities of Traverse City (MI) 545

Royal Geographical Society (England) 546

The Society’s grants are wide-ranging and offer support to individual researchers, expedition teams and school teachers. Grants are for work in both the UK and overseas and range in value from £350 to £15,000. In 2001-2002 the Society will provide nearly £100,000 in grants, supporting over 100 projects.
 

S.C. Johnson Wax Fund, (WI) 467

The SC Johnson Fund, Inc. contributes to the well being of the communities where their employees and their families work and live by supporting organizations and programs to improve the quality of life and increase the sustainability of those communities.
 

Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation,  (HI) 374

The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation is a private family foundation established to assist benevolent charitable and educational organizations in Hawaii.

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, (OK) 516

The Foundation makes grants to those groups that are enabling individual farmers and ranchers to understand resource management better and achieve their goals through comsultation, education, research and demonstration, enhancing plant productivity through fundamental research and applied biotechnology, assisting community service, health research and delivery systems, and educational and other selected nonprofit organizations through grants and employee involvement.
 

San Diego Foundation (CA) 547

San Francisco Foundation (CA) 548

Santa Fe Community Foundation (NM) 549

SBC Foundation (TX) 550

Shell Foundation (TX) 552

Sonoma County Community Foundation (CA) 554

St. Paul Companies (MN) 555

Stern Family Fund (VA) 556

Sudbury Foundation, (MA) 557

Summit Foundation, (DC) 558

Surdna Foundation, (NY) 559

Texaco (NY) 562

Texas Instruments Foundation (TX) 563

The Pew Charitable Trusts (PA) 533

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 3952

The Active Living Policy and Environmental Studies Program (ALPES) is a $12.5-million national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created to support investigator-initiated research to identify environmental factors and public and private policies that influence physical activity within communities and populations.

Tides Foundation, The (CA) 561

Tides Foundation, The (CA) 564

Tinker Foundation, Inc., (NY) 565

Toyota USA Foundation (CA) 566

Triangle Community Foundation (NC) 567

Trust for Mutual Understanding (NY) 568

Turner Foundation (GA) 569

United Nations Foundation (DC) 570

United States-Japan Foundation (NY) 571

USX Foundation (PA) 572

W. Alton Jones Foundation, (VA) 468

W.K. Kellogg Foundation,  (MI) 472

Wakesman Foundation for Microbiology (NY) 428

The Foundation supports research and education in the general field of microbiology, including medical disciplines, agricultural and soil microbiology, marine microbiology, and the diverse environmental interactions of microbes.
 

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, (CA) 441

Wallace Global Fund (DC) 574

Walton Family Foundation, (AR) 576

Water Environment Research Foundation, (VA) 577

Weeden Foundation (NY) 578

Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation (WA 579

Wilburforce Foundation, (WA) 581

Wild Rose Foundation (AB) 582

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, (CA) 458

William Bingham Foundation, (OH) 355

William H. Gates Foundation, (WA) 437

William Penn Foundation, (PA) 531

William Randolph Hearst Foundations, (NY) 455

Windham Foundation  (VT) 583

WKKF 470

WMX Environmnetal Grants Program (DC) 584

Working Assets (CA) 586

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, (NC) 538

Brainerd Foundation

Cottonwood Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation

Echoing Green Foundation

Environmental Support Center

Ittleson Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

Rudolf Steiner Foundation

Turner Endangered Species Fund

Turner Foundation, Inc.

The Virtual Foundation

W. Alton Jones Foundation

Whitley Award Scheme

• Anza-Borrego Foundation - A non-profit organization supporting California State Parks by acquiring land for the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park through donation or by purchase from willing sellers.
• Bonneville Environmental Foundation - Funds environmentally preferred energy and watershed projects in the Pacific Northwest.
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation - Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems in North America.
• Conservation Technology Support Program (CTSP) - Grants fund Conservation Groups to expand their Geographic Information Systems (GIS) capacity
• Energy Foundation - Mission is to assist in the nation's transition to a sustainable energy future by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy
• George Gund Foundation - Environmental grants focused locally in the Cleveland area, and regionally in Ohio and the Great Lakes Basisn
• Great Lakes Protection Fund - Supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem
• Heinz Endowments
• The Helios Environmental Resource Network - Provides small grants (500-1000)to 501(c)3 non-profit organizations working to promote the ecological and economic sustainability of the Pacific Northwest, with special attention given to projects and organizations in Western Oregon.
• Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation - Environmental grantmaking areas includes Toxics, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Communities, and Metropolitan New York City
• The JoMiJo Foundation - Provides financial support for grassroots efforts aimed at social change and environmental preservation. We seek to work with non-profit organizations and individuals who respond to the most pressing needs of people and land in danger.
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
• New England Forestry Foundation
• Norman Foundation - Makes grants to strengthen communities, prevent the use of toxics, and link environmental justice with economic justice
• The Reef Ball Foundation - Non-profit organization dedicated to making new aquatic habitats by helping folks build Reef Ball artificial reefs and teaching about the value of natural reefs.
• Spoehr-Clarke Foundation - Makes grants to those working in the areas of wildlife and wilderness protection, the environment, and animal welfare.
• The Summit Fund of Washington - A foundation focused on preventing teen pregnancy in Washington, DC and restoring and preserving the Anacostia River.
• Town Creek Foundation - Seeks a healthy environment, an informed society, and a peaceful world. The Foundation is committed to achieving its mission through public education, citizen action, and advocacy.
• W. Alton Jones Foundation - A private grantmaking foundation focusing on global environmental protection and the prevention of nuclear war or other massive release of radioactive material.
• Whole Systems Foundation - Provides grants for environmental education and sustainabiity efforts. Site includes an integrated overview of environmental sustainability concerns.