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12 funders with a record of paying for “agroecology”
Where the money went
Largest: $80,000 to International Centre for Research in Agroforestry — provide gap funding for the early phase of the agroecology coalition, ensuring continuous support from the agroecology transformation partnership platform for a successful transiti…
Largest: $174,135 to Desde Mi Huerto — funds were granted to farmers to help further agroecology efforts in puerto rico.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
24 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2024Largest: $480,000 to GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC — provide core support for the agroecology fund to strengthen its local strategy in mexico through the agroecology fund of the yucatan peninsula to advance agroecological food system…
Largest: $80,000 to AFRICAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ALLIANCE — support for global work on agroecology
Largest: $50,000 to GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — the agroecology fund
Largest: $105,000 to GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — agroecology fund
Largest: $30,000 to CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC — for the cuba-us agroecology network to build climate resilience through agroecology and sustainable livelihoods
Largest: $459,037 to INTERNATIONAL PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES INSTITUTE — toward the costs of a multi-faceted research project to understand how indigenous peoples and their agroecology and regenerative practices can help to solve the global food systems…
Largest: $100,000 to GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC — support for the agroecology funds agroecology initiative for rights-based, locally led ape habitat and biodiversity conservation.
Woka FoundationNewbury Park, CA
5 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to Agroecology Fund — strengthen the case for agroecology as a climate change and hunger solution.
Largest: $295,000 to TIERRA VIVA — support farmers to transition their farms to agroecological practices and diversify their income so they can sustain their livelihoods and wellbeing in the highlands of ecuador
Largest: $750,000 to FOODLINK FOR TULARE COUNTY INC — central valley agroecology network - promoting healthy food systems: to support development of a network of regenerative farms that provide healthy, local and sustainable produce t…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →