Farm to School Grants

Kars for Kids Grants

  • This grant program is dedicated to supporting educational initiatives around the world and helping us impact more children.
  • Deadline: Rolling

Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools

  • Apply to have a salad bar donated to your school in order to ensure that students have access to fresh fruits and vegetables every school day.
  • Deadline: Rolling

Project Produce: Fruit and Veggie Grants for Schools

  • These $2,500 grants assist in exposing students to a diversity of fresh fruits and vegetables, expanding their palates, and encouraging increased consumption of fresh produce through fruit and vegetable samplings and lunchroom education experiences.
  • Deadline: Rolling

The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

  • Grant recipients will receive donated high-quality fruit trees and shrubs for school gardens, organic soil amendments, equipment, planting volunteers, and on-site orchard design work, horticultural workshops, and aftercare training.
  • Deadline: Rolling

The Pollination Project Seed Grants

  • Grants fund projects on a daily basis to inspire change and develop compassion such as planting an edible garden at a school.
  • Deadline: Rolling

Smucker’s Charitable Giving Request

  • The J.M. Smucker Company believes strongly in contributing to the well-being of communities and want to help by giving back to education-related programs.
  • Deadline: Rolling

Karma for Cara Foundation

  • As part of an effort to support volunteerism, the Karma for Cara Foundation has begun a microgrant program encouraging kids 18 and under to apply for funds to complete service projects in their communities.
  • Deadline: January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st

Fund for Teachers

  • Fund for Teachers provides educators, possessing a broad vision of what it means to teach and learn, the resources needed to pursue self-designed professional learning experiences. Individuals may apply for up to $5,000 and teams may apply for up to $10,000.
  • Deadline: January 31st

American Honda Foundation Grant

  • Grants are awarded to help meet the needs of youth and scientific education, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the environment, job training and literacy. American Honda Foundation supports youth education with a specific focus on the STEM subjects in addition to the environment.
  • Deadline: February 1st and August 1st (new organizations); May 1st (returning organizations)

The National Education Association Foundation

  • $2,000 grants to individual’s fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes, conferences, or action research.
  • Deadline: February 1st, June 1st, and October 15th

The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement Innovation Fund Tiny Grants

  • Tiny grants will provide public schools, charter schools, and school districts between $1,000 and $10,000 to implement innovative projects to deeply engage students in solving an existing problem in an inventive way to have a large and lasting impact.
  • Deadline: February 1st, June 1st, September 1st, and November 1st

Project Orange Thumb

  • This is a community garden grant program that provides tools and resources to help communities reach their goals for collaboration, neighborhood beautification, and healthy, sustainable food sources.
  • Deadline: February 10th

Georgia Farm Bureau Foundation Grants

  • Up to $350 will be awarded to projects dedicated to enhancing agricultural literacy across Georgia.
  • Deadline: June 30th and December 15th

Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Community Grant

  • Receive up to $5,000 with this grant to make your school a better place. LCEF is seeking ways to provide the tools to help educators like you through educational challenges by providing the greatest impact, with basic necessities being the priority.
  • Application Opens: August 7th

Captain Planet Foundation

  • Captain Planet Foundation will accept small grant requests for amounts between $500 – $2,500 to provide monetary support for environment-based education in schools. Preferential consideration is given to requests who have secured at least 50% matching or in-kind funding for their projects.
  • Deadline: September 30th (spring/summer projects); January 31st (fall/winter projects)

GreenWorks Grants

  • Project Learning Tree offers up to $1,000 grants to schools and youth organizations for environmental service-learning projects that link classroom learning to the real world.
  • Deadline: September 30th

Target Field Trip Grants

  • Grants valued up to $700 are awarded to K-12 schools nationwide to fund learning opportunities outside of the classroom.
  • Deadline: October 1st

The Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education Grant Program

  • Grant recipient projects must emphasize involvement of students and volunteers in all phases of development, and increase the educational value of the project site.
  • Deadline: October 15th

Whole Kids Foundation Learning Garden Grant

  • The Extended Learning Garden Grant program provides a $2,000 monetary grant to a non-profit children’s programming organization, working with children ages K–12, to support an edible educational garden.
  • Deadline: October 31st

Whole Kids Foundation U.S. School Garden Grant

  • Created in partnership with FoodCorps, this grant program provides a $2,000 monetary grant to a K-12 school, or a non-profit working in partnership with a K-12 school, to support a new or existing edible garden on school grounds.
  • Deadline: October 31st

School Food Support Initiative

  • With this funding, selected districts will receive support through a technical assistance program that includes a workshop for food service directors, on-site assessment, debrief and strategic planning, along with peer-to-peer collaboration and access to a food service program Assistance Grant.
  • Deadline: November 30th

Annie’s Grants for Gardens

  • Grant money provides funds to support an edible garden at a public school or 501c3 non-profit.
  • Deadline: December 5th

Youth Garden Grant

  • This grant is designed to support school and youth educational garden projects that enhance the quality of life for students and their communities.
  • Deadline: December 15th