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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “regenerative”
Where the money went
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: $15,000 to REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — project support for the herd fellows scholarship fund
Woka FoundationNewbury Park, CA
18 matching grants · $5.7M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to White Buffalo Land Trust — create a center for education, training, and scientific research to foster rapid and broad adoption of regenerative agriculture locally, regionally, and globally.
Largest: $350,000 to Regenerative Agriculture Foundation — to support raf's rapid response fund and to raf as fiscal sponsor of the funders for regenerative agriculture (fora) project to support fora's pooled fund for supporting and develo…
Largest: $1.1M to RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — a collaboratory for a regenerative economy (core): molecules to neighborhoods: safer chemicals & materials for the renewable energy economy
Largest: $500,000 to Regenerative Agriculture Foundation — to build the capacity of diverse midwest food and farm organizations to administer large federal grants and advance regenerative agriculture through a newly created fund by the rur…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
15 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2023Largest: $560,189 to AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — advancing adoption of regenerative agriculture
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2023Largest: $250,000 to Regenerative Agriculture Alliance Inc — support for the deployment of the regenerative poultry system
Largest: $250,000 to Regenerative Agriculture Foundation — to support a fund focused on helping farmers implement regenerative agriculture practices
The Peterffy FoundationFort Lauderdale, FL
10 matching grants · $508,639 · through 2025Largest: $158,079 to REGENERATIVE EARTH — to support local projects in partnership with the osa capacity strategic center
Largest: $850,000 to URBAN TILTH — the north richmond farm project: creating a hub for community driven regenerative agriculture, education, health and empowerment in richmond
Largest: $200,000 to REGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — tauopathy research
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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 →