Foundations for Sustainable Agriculture and Farming
The 11th Hour Project’s fosters sustainable use of water, energy, and food resources. It works to promote agricultural systems that are sustainable and economically just, and supports human rights projects that relate to the environment and intersect with energy, food and water systems.
The foundation’s grants for sustainable agriculture address Africa, among other areas.
The Agua Fund’s grantmaking for sustainable agriculture focuses on Indigenous practices. Grants here are also tied to the Fund’s environmental giving and Indigenous and racial justice work.
The Anderson-Rogers Foundation supports sustainable agriculture and food systems programs that promote “environmentally sound agricultural practices.” The foundation supports both small and large scale projects.
According to tax filings, the Barnwood Foundation primarily and broadly funds grantmaking related to sustainable agriculture.
Bezos Earth Fund is the climate funder created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. It supports environmental conservation and justice, climate change and clean energy, marine and freshwater restoration, and animal and wildlife preservation.
Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation supports human rights, and immigrants and refugees, human rights, agriculture, animals and wildlife, and public health in places all over the world.
The Howard G. Buffett’s food security focus area takes a conservation-based approach to farming practices and focuses on resource development for smallholder farmers in least developed countries.
The Ceres Trust supports the environment, climate change resiliency, animals and wildlife, film and sustainable agriculture in Hawaii, the Upper Midwest and Central California.
Chapin’s grantmaking for sustainable agriculture is broad and focused on education.
The foundation’s environmental giving focuses predominantly on Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture.
The ClimateWorks Foundation supports climate change efforts through various programs, some related to sustainable agriculture and food systems, and grantmaking in places all around the world.
The foundation supports projects that "promote or develop specific sustainable agriculture practices with potential to advance science and practice in other countries."
Deere’s funding in this space works to expand application of agricultural best practices.
The foundation broadly supports the sustainable production of food, as wells as education about agriculture.
Grantmaking is broad here and favors established organizations.
This is a unique environmental funder that is committed to climate change across all of its giving areas, including sustainable agriculture.
The foundation’s Ecological Agriculture grants support “pioneers in sustainable agriculture.”
The foundation’s sustainable agriculture funding tends to focus on supporting rural farming practices, but grantmaking is still new and evolving in this area.
The foundation’s agriculture funding aims to “strengthen the food growers from which we source key ingredients,” and focuses on the protection of pollinator habitats and watershed areas and the improvement of soil health.
Gerbode’s environmental program has recently begun to fund programs involved in sustainable agriculture and food systems, naming “access to healthy food” as an area of interest.
Sustainable agriculture is a newer funding area for this funder. It has funded sustainable farming and fishing practices.
With roots in farming and ranching, the Glides give broadly in this area.
Greengrants has worked extensively with organizations in rural and developing areas of the world on efforts to promote soil conservation and sustainable farming methods.
The Greenbaum Foundation funds sustainable food systems, specifically funding organizations that promote plant-based diets for their sustainability and health benefits.
Grants for sustainable agriculture are broad and are tied to creating a clean economy.
The Hillside Foundation primarily funds Jewish causes, but also support STEM education, health, and more. The foundation's philanthropy centers around the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly the D.C. area.
IKEA’s grants in this space focus on the intersection of rural farmers in the developing world and multiplying risks brought on by climate change.
Sustainable agriculture is an emerging interest for the Lazar Foundation.
This foundation invests in transformative and regenerative farming practices that will help the next generation of farmers.
It funds “programs in low-income urban areas that are harnessing the power of young people to create urban farms and local markets.”
Orskov’s student grants and community projects uniformly fund projects that support agricultural innovation toward the sustainability, longevity and prosperity of farms in developing areas of the world.
The agriculture program supports organizations that help poor farmers in developing nations to adopt methods and technologies that enhance the productivity and profitability of their farms.
The Packard Foundation also funds conservation via its Agriculture Livelihoods and Conservation program, which supports the involvement of farmers and other small business owners who depend on natural resources in efforts to conserve and protect lands and ecosystems from destructive use and development.
The program was established in 2016 to support “leaders and organizations around the U.S. and the world fighting for food systems that foster thriving communities, promote dignity and racial equity, and regenerate natural resources. Much of the foundation’s work in this area has been collaborative.
Pepsico’s nutrition funding aims to alleviate pervasive hunger by supporting organizations that provide health food to people in need and supporting initiatives for “long-term food security.”
The project has given to initiatives for sustainable agriculture and food through its Health and Wholeness and Environmental funding programs.
The Porter Foundation prioritizes sustainable agriculture projects that partner with small-scale farms and indigenous and nomadic peoples to combat hunger though the adoption of sustainable agriculture.
The foundation also invests in sustainable urban farming amongst other interest areas.
Sustainable agriculture appears to be a growing area of interest for Purley. The trust’s interests in this area are evolving.
The foundation funds issues related to rural sustainable farming from a variety of prospectives.
The Flora L. Thornton Foundation typically awards grants to organizations operating in large metropolitan areas in the United States, particularly within the Los Angeles area.
A significant portion of this funder’s climate change grantmaking supports initiatives that promote sustainable agriculture, water management and the limitation of fossil fuel extraction from indigenous lands.
The foundation works to mitigate climate change through the management of “farms, ranches, and other landscapes so we pull carbon out of the air and return it to soils and living systems.”
The TomKat Foundation’s giving for sustainable agriculture and food systems prioritizes sustainable animal agriculture, the removal of obstacles to the processing and distribution of healthy foods, the preservation of lands for sustainable farming and ranching and increasing the availability of healthy and sustainable foods to underserved communities.
This foundation’s sustainable agriculture giving overlaps with it’s goals for global development and climate change.
Its community-based food justice efforts primarily makes grants to organizations in Massachusetts that work to create sustainable agriculture and to expand access to affordable and healthy food.
The Woodcock Foundation has demonstrated strong interest in supporting the development of sustainable food systems and agriculture over the past several years.