Grants Database

The Coldwater Land Conservancy Fund provides grants for land protection projects that result in conservation easements or land trust or agency acquisition of important properties that protect salmon habitat. Funds will be awarded to TU Chapters and Councils in partnership with land trusts and conservation agencies to support land protection project expenses.

These grants help non-profits afford the switch to clean energy. Priority is given to solar projects that have additional funding sources, community support, and have near-term installation plans. Grant amounts depend on a variety of factors, including need, and funds are limited. Application deadline is rolling.

Projects must fall into one of these areas: Creating Opportunity, Advancing Sustainability (categories include: Climate, Waste, Nature), Strengthening Community, or Center for Racial Equity. Applicants must have a Spark Good account on Walmart.com/nonprofits and be verified by Walmart’s third-party verification partner, Deed. Learn more and apply.

MassWildlife's Habitat Management Grant Program supports projects that improve wildlife habitat on lands that promote public outdoor recreation. Owners of private and municipal conserved lands are eligible. 

Rolling admission, must be LTA-accredited to apply. Proposed project acres must total 500 or more acres, but may be aggregated with multiple non-adjacent parcels. Adjacent lands are preferred. Awards will be up to $100,000 in funding for existing fee lands and up to $250,000 to support new land acquisitions, all of which will be permanently protected with a forever-wild easement. The funds may be used for: staff time; stewardship endowment; forever-wild land acquisition; and transaction costs associated with the Wildlands Partnership project. (Funds may not be applied to cover legal fees.)

The Rooting Resilience Program is for federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, and community-based nonprofits to fund small-scale forestry projects that support equitable climate resilience in disadvantaged communities that are often the most impacted by climate change. The program will provide technical assistance and funding for projects that improve the condition of the tree canopy in order to address the challenges of flooding and erosion, extreme heat, community health concerns, and/or increase access to green jobs through forestry. 

Science for Nature and People Partnership provides funding for 4-6 approved working groups led by academic, governmental agency, multilateral, or nonprofit institution to identify and quantify nature’s role in preventing and solving challenges around food and water security, climate change, and energy. Funds are fore research fellow salary and benefits, independent contractors, time of technical employees, virtual and in-person meetings, and convening groups.

To fund direct work with communities by 

• Targeting resources to benefit communities at risk
• Assessing, understanding, and reducing environmental and human health risks
• Increasing collaboration through partnerships and community-based projects
• Building institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems, and
• Achieving measurable environmental and human health benefits.

The Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs' Tribal Land Acquisition Grants are for Massachusetts tribal governments and collaborating non-profits to acquire land (in fee) or a Conservation Restriction (“CR”) to support restoration of tribal relationships to their ancestral land or to facilitate the conveyance of land to a Massachusetts tribal government subject to a perpetual charitable trust obligation to maintain the land in a natural, scenic, or open condition for conservation purposes.

For landscape restoration projects on rural nonindustrial private forestland and/or rural Tribal, State, or local government forest land in communities with a population of less than 50,000. Goals are to improve fish and wildlife habitat; improve water quality and watershed function; mitigate invasive plants, insect infestation, and disease; reduce wildfire risk; improve forest ecosystem health; and measure ecological and economic benefits.