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Funding Opportunities: Other Grant Sources

West Coast Funding Opportunities

  • The Alaska Conservation Foundation is a community foundation for the environment that receives and awards grants to a range of organizations and projects that work to protect and enhance Alaska's incredible ecosystems and wildlife by promoting sustainable communities, helping build institutional capacity, or building broad-based public support for environmental protection.
  • The Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) was founded to support watershed restoration programs and develop new sources of renewable energy. BEF, a not-for-profit organization, markets green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals.
  • The Brainerd Foundation is a grant-making institution dedicated to protecting the environmental quality of the Pacific Northwest. Grants are awarded in two program areas: endangered ecosystems and communications and capacity building.
  • The Bullitt Foundation is committed to protecting and restoring the environment of the Pacific Northwest. The Foundation invites grant proposals from nonprofit organizations that serve Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, western Montana (including the Rocky Mountain Range), and the rain forest region of southern Alaska. The Foundation supports efforts in many areas ranging from energy and climate change, to growth management, to rivers, wetlands, and marine ecosystems.
  • The Burning Foundation supports projects in many areas, including environmental protection and conservation. The environmental program especially focuses on the rivers, forests, native fish, and land in Washington and Oregon.
  • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's conservation program supports efforts to address environmental threats and conserve critical habitats. This program includes funding for establishing and managing marine fisheries along North America's western coast, from Baja to the Bering Sea.
  • The Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation provides grants to a wide range of nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, and British Columbia, Canada). The Foundation has four program areas; currently environmental preservation and conservation is its top priority.
  • The Northwest Fund provides grants to organizations and projects that promote changing the uses of natural resources to protect and preserve them in the state of Washington. The Fund emphasizes the protection of wild fish, native wildlife, natural forests, wetlands and shorelines, and the preservation of pure and free-flowing waters. Beginning in 2003, the NW Fund will focus its funding in two program areas: growth management and aquatic ecosystems protection.