Resources
Applications Due
Twice a year on March 1 and August 1
Total Funding
Funding Source
Maximum Award
Award Details
Typical grants range from $5,000 to $50,000
Eligibility
Applicants must be registered as — or fiscally sponsored by — a 501(c)3 organization.
Eligible Activities
Clif Family Foundation priorities:
- Regenerative and Organic Farming: Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
- Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety: Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
- Climate Justice: Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
- Healthy Food Access: Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
- Inclusive Outdoor Access: Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
- Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution: Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
Duration
Notable Requirements
The Eligibility Quiz requires entering the Tax ID/EIN for your organization or your fiscal sponsor, if applicable.
Preferences
Priority is given to applicants that advance the Clif Family Foundation’s strategic priorities and align with their values, focus their work primarily in the United States and its unincorporated territories, demonstrate strong community ties, have operating budgets under $8 million, and operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage.
How to Apply
Complete the online Eligibility Quiz here prior to starting a full application.