Helpful Grant Lists & Directories
Funding Opportunities
- America the Beautiful Fund - Operation Green Plant--free seeds; rolling application cycle
- American Honda Foundation--youth education; application deadlines 4 times/year
- Annie's Grants for Gardens--community or school gardens; rolling application cycle
- Bonnie Plants 3rd Grade Cabbage Program--free cabbage plants for 3rd graders to plant; rolling application cycle
- Box Tops for Education--youth education; rolling application cycle
- Captain Planet Foundation--environmentally-based education in schools; application deadlines 3 times/year
- Fiskar's Project Orange Thumb--garden installation and makeover grants; application for 2013 available later this year.
- ING Unsung Heroes--class projects for educators; application deadline April 30, 2012
- KIDS Consortium Mini Grant Program--Green service learning projects
- Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program--plant and maintain natural landscapes in schools and nature centers; application deadline October 15, 2012
- Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation--community improvement projects and public education; rolling application cycle
- Lowe's Toolbox for Education--indoor/outdoor facility enhancement; application deadlines 2 times/year
- National Association for Sport and Physical Education Grant Opportunities Database
- National Education Association - Green Across America Grants--to educators for innovative educational programs, activities, lessons, or events designed to excite students about going green, caring for the earth, and creating a sustainable future
- National Gardening Association - Youth Garden Grants--schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs
- Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards--for community groups who are committed to improving their local environment by planting trees, bushes and shrubs to make their communities a better place to live
- Project Learning Tree GreenWorks Pollinator Garden Grants--offering grants to teachers and students participating in PollinatorLIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure. Participating teachers can apply for GreenWorks! funding to create pollinator gardens in their schoolyard or community; rolling application cycle
- PSNH's Environmental Community Grant Program--provides support to nonprofit organizations, within the company's service territory, that foster environmental preservation, improvement, or education; application deadlines on April 15 and October 15
- PTA Healthy Lifestyles Awards--Any PTA in good standing is eligible to apply for the Healthy Lifestyles Grant
- Subaru Healthy Sprouts Grants--your school or organization must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of 3 and 18. The selection of winners is based on the demonstrated relationship between the garden program and education related to environmental, nutrition and hunger issues in the United States
- Walmart Store and Sam's Club Giving Programs--through the Local Community Contribution program (LCC), facilities are able to support the needs of their local communities by providing funding to organizations working to improve the lives of associates, customers and neighbors
- Whole Kids Foundation school garden grant.