Woka Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $1.0M

  Green America · Washington, DC · 2024

  Soil Carbon Initiative

• $1.0M

  New Energy Nexus · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $700,000

  Activate · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  General operating expenses and climate tech fellows

• $500,000

  Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2024

  Select and support Ashoka Climate Fellows

• $500,000

  Elemental Excelerator Elemental Imp · Honolulu, HI · 2024

  General operating support

• $400,000

  African Women Rising · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $400,000

  Global Greengrants · Boulder, CO · 2024

  Gender & Environment

• $400,000

  Climate Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $400,000

  Rockefeller Family Fund Fcog · New York, NY · 2024

  General operating support for Funder's Collaborative on Oil and Gas initiative

• $350,000

  International Biochar Initiative · Canandaigua, NY · 2024

  Capacity building support

• $350,000

  Oil Change International · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support

• $350,000

  Center for Climate Integrity · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support

• $330,000

  Opepa Bwl · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2024

  Support the Bioregional Weaving Labs

• $300,000

  Action for the Climate Emergency · Charlestown, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $300,000

  Agroecology Fund · Boulder, CO · 2024

  General operating support for Agroecology Fund

• $300,000

  Kakenya'S Dream · Arlington, VA · 2024

  General operating support

• $300,000

  Deployus · Boston, MA · 2024

  General Operating Support

• $300,000

  Natural Resource Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024

  Rewrite the Future initiative

• $300,000

  Groundswell International · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  The Land Institute · Salina, KS · 2024

  General operating support

• $250,000

  Mad Agriculture · Boulder, CO · 2024

  General operating support

• $230,000

  Quivira · Santa Fe, NM · 2024

  General operating support

• $225,000

  Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Forest program and Community Action grants

• $200,000

  Mongabay · Menlo Park, CA · 2024

  General operating support and Natural Climate Solutions reporting

• $200,000

  Women'S Environment and Development · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Support gender-just & environmentally sound climate solutions

• $200,000

  Conservation International · Arlington, VA · 2024

  Global Mangrove Alliance

• $200,000

  Greenwave · New Haven, CT · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Forge · Somerville, MA · 2024

  Cleantech startups

• $200,000

  Deployus · Boston, MA · 2024

  General Operating Support for Urgent Investment Priorities

• $200,000

  350org · Boston, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Covering Climate Now · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support for Covering Climate Now initiative

• $200,000

  Amazon Watch · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Ohio River Valley Institute · Johnstown, PA · 2024

  General operating support for Ohio River Valley Institute

• $200,000

  The Hive Fund for Climate Gender Ju · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support for Hive Fund

• $200,000

  Rural Climate Partnership · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support for Rural Climate Partnership

• $200,000

  Oil Change International · Washington, DC · 2024

  Field-wide coordination efforts

• $150,000

  Regenerative Farms · Williamsburg, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Mangrove Action Project · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  Nurturing Minds · Newtonville, MA · 2024

  General operating support

• $150,000

  White Buffalo Land Trust · Summerland, CA · 2024

  Jalama Ranch Programs

• $115,000

  Center for Land Based Learning · Woodland, CA · 2024

  Incubator Learning Lab and Farm & Climate Program

• $100,000

  Women'S Earth and Climate Action Ne · Mill Valley, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $75,000

  Re-Amp · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Agricultural Hub

• $50,000

  Ciks · 2024

  Sustainable Agriculture Program

• $1,000

  The Father Center of New Jersey · Trenton, NJ · 2024

  General operating support

• $1.0M

  New Energy Nexus · Oakland, CA · 2023

  Expand platform capabilities to build a renewable energy entrepreneur support ecosystem

• $1.0M

  Activate · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  ClimateTech Fellows

• $1.0M

  Green America · Washington, DC · 2023

  Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency

• $800,000

  Greentown · Somerville, MA · 2023

  Support the growth of startup climatetech entrepreneurs, improve the opportunities for decarbonization across key GHG-emitting sectors, and expand Greentowns climatetech ecosystem.

• $500,000

  International Biochar Initiative · Canandaigua, NY · 2023

  Capacity Building Support

• $500,000

  Climate Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Supporting construction of a scalable 10,000 m of Marine Permaculture floating array to accelerate seaweed growth and lead to healthy fisheries and other ecosystem services.

• $500,000

  Elemental Excelerator Elemental Imp · Honolulu, HI · 2023

  General Support for their efforts to help climate companies bridge the gap from pilot projects to commercial-scale projects.

• $500,000

  Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2023

  Select and support Ashoka Climate Fellows working in South and Southeast Asia

• $400,000

  Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Funding for the Forests Program to prevent deforestation and encroachment into tropical rainforests.

• $400,000

  Rockefeller Family Fund Fcog · New York, NY · 2023

  Curtailing US oil and gas production in partnership with frontline campaigns in local communities through shared grantmaking & learning.

• $400,000

  African Women Rising · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023

  Education, regenerative agriculture, and microfinance programs for women in refugee camps and surrounding communities in northern Uganda.

• $400,000

  Global Greengrants · Boulder, CO · 2023

  Womens Environmental Action initiative

• $330,000

  Opepa Bwl · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2023

  General Support

• $300,000

  White Buffalo Land Trust · Summerland, CA · 2023

  Create a center for education, training, and scientific research to foster rapid and broad adoption of regenerative agriculture locally, regionally, and globally.

• $300,000

  Natural Resource Defense Council · New York, NY · 2023

  Rewrite the Future

• $300,000

  Agroecology Fund · Boulder, CO · 2023

  Strengthen the case for agroecology as a climate change and hunger solution.

• $300,000

  Deployus · Boston, MA · 2023

  Accelerating decarbonization by strengthening climate leadership across the political spectrum.

• $300,000

  Groundswell International · Washington, DC · 2023

  Growing the global agroecology movement to catalyze the transition to just farming and local food systems.

• $300,000

  Kakenya'S Dream · Arlington, VA · 2023

  Transforming communities in rural Kenya through education, health, and leadership programs for girls.

• $300,000

  Nurturing Minds · Newtonville, MA · 2023

  General Operating Support

• $265,000

  Mangrove Action Project · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Growing the reach of MAP's restoration training programs to restore and conserve mangrove ecosystems.

• $250,000

  Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  Teacher training & engagement, youth advocacy, and community engagement efforts that foster understanding and action on climate change.

• $250,000

  Mad Agriculture · Boulder, CO · 2023

  Develop capital and market value offerings that help farmers accelerate the transition to regenerative and organic agriculture.

• $250,000

  The Land Institute · Salina, KS · 2023

  Funding to transform agriculture through perennial grain breeding research and development, researching the social impacts of transitioning to perennial grain agriculture, and studying the impact of ecological intensifi…

• $250,000

  The Living Lab World Resources Inst · Washington, DC · 2023

  Promoting behavior change research & action to transition from a resource-exploitative society to one that supports human and planetary wellbeing.

• $230,000

  Quivira · Santa Fe, NM · 2023

  Support a shift from extractive to regenerative agriculture in the arid working lands of the western US.

• $225,000

  Center for Land Based Learning · Woodland, CA · 2023

  Expand the Beginning Farmer Incubator and Training Program and launch the Farm and Climate Program.

• $200,000

  Forge · Somerville, MA · 2023

  Helping cleantech start-ups solve crucial manufacturing readiness and supply chain gaps.

• $200,000

  Regenerative Farms · Williamsburg, MA · 2023

  Funding documentation of RFs bioregional development hub model, revision of their strategic plan, and development of a funding plan to support their planned capacity growth.

• $200,000

  Women'S Earth and Climate Action Ne · Mill Valley, CA · 2023

  Providing women-led approaches to climate solutions using a climate justice framework that supports women on the frontlines of protecting water, land, climate and communities.

• $200,000

  Mongabay · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

  Reporting that addresses information gaps and awareness of natural climate solutions.

• $200,000

  350org · Boston, MA · 2023

  Building widespread demand for, and implementation of, renewable energy solutions that are localized and create shared prosperity and greater equity. Providing support for grassroots organizations in this effort through…

• $200,000

  Covering Climate Now · Washington, DC · 2023

  Supporting the launch of a Local TV & Media Climate Hub that provides training, story development, and coaching to enable local newsrooms to cover the climate emergency.

• $200,000

  Conservation International · Arlington, VA · 2023

  Conserve and restore mangrove ecosystems and build awareness of the critical role mangrove forests play in mitigating climate change and providing economic prosperity for coastal communities.

• $200,000

  Greenwave · New Haven, CT · 2023

  Support GreenWaves goal to train 10,000 farmers to scale the environmental and economic impact of the regenerative ocean farming model using a digital resource platform.

• $150,000

  Ipl · Oakland, CA · 2023

  Faith Climate Action Week and CoolCongregations

• $124,608

  Uc Berkeley - Lawrence Hall of Scie · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  Funding BEETLES' development of a Nature Videography outdoor science activity for use at Outdoor Education and Nature Centers involving children taking slow-motion phone videos to make observations impossible with the n…

• $100,000

  Re-Amp · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  Agricultural Hub

• $62,565

  Crowdsourcing Sustainability · Needham, MA · 2023

  Developing an online community to crowdsource more sustainability into the world.

• $50,000

  Ciks · 2023

  Conserve, characterize, and scale Traditional Rice Varieties through ecofriendly and sustainable cultivation in Tamil Nadu State, India.

• $31,813

  Nurturing Minds · Newtonville, MA · 2023

  General Operating Support

• $25,000

  Funders of Regenerative Agriculture · Staatsburg, NY · 2023

  General Operating Support

• $1.8M

  Prime Coalition · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Prime Azolla Ventures

• $1.0M

  Activate · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  ClimateTech Fellows

• $1.0M

  Climate Foundation · Woods Hole, MA · 2022

  Supporting construction of a scalable 10,000 m of Marine Permaculture floating array to accelerate seaweed growth and lead to healthy fisheries and other ecosystem services.

• $800,000

  Greentown · Somerville, MA · 2022

  Support the growth of startup climatetech entrepreneurs, improve the opportunities for decarbonization across key GHG-emitting sectors, and expand Greentowns climatetech ecosystem.

• $750,000

  Green America · Washington, DC · 2022

  Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency

• $700,000

  New Energy Nexus · Oakland, CA · 2022

  Expand platform capabilities to build a renewable energy entrepreneur support ecosystem

• $500,000

  Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2022

  Select and support Ashoka Climate Fellows working in South and Southeast Asia

• $500,000

  International Biochar Initiative · Canandaigua, NY · 2022

  Capacity Building Support

• $500,000

  Green America · Washington, DC · 2022

  Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency

• $400,000

  Rainforest Action Network · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  Funding for the Forests Program to prevent deforestation and encroachment into tropical rainforests.

• $400,000

  African Women Rising · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022

  Education, regenerative agriculture, and microfinance programs for women in refugee camps and surrounding communities in northern Uganda.

• $350,000

  Kakenya'S Dream · Arlington, VA · 2022

  Transforming communities in rural Kenya through education, health, and leadership programs for girls.

• $335,000

  Mangrove Action Project · Seattle, WA · 2022

  Growing the reach of MAP's restoration training programs to restore and conserve mangrove ecosystems.