Knobloch Family Foundation
The Knobloch Family Foundation is a private, spend-down foundation focused on science-based conservation, conservation economics, conservation finance, and tools for durable conservation. The site states the foundation makes grants (by invitation only) to support conservation science and land stewardship.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A mission-driven land trust, conservation nonprofit, or research institution proposing science-based conservation, large-scale land protection, migration corridor or conservation finance projects with capacity to manage multi-hundred-thousand to multi-million-dollar awards.
Good Fit
- • Project focuses on land protection, conservation science, habitat connectivity, or conservation finance.
- • Capacity to manage large, transaction-style grants (e.g., easements, acquisitions, large pilots).
- • Project operating in states that received larger shares recently (e.g., VA, NY, GA, MT, WY, TX).
- • Existing partnerships with larger conservation intermediaries or ability to be introduced by current grantees.
Geography
Observed grants in the latest year went to recipients in 15 states with about 89% of dollars going out of the foundation's home state and one state receiving roughly 20% of the year's funding.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows 77 grants to 53 distinct recipients and 40 first-time recipients, and across three years the foundation funded dozens of independent organizations rather than a tiny closed circle.
New Applicants
Although the website and application notes state grants are by invitation only, observed behavior shows many new recipients (40 new grantees in the latest year and large numbers of new grantees in prior years), so new entrants do appear in the portfolio but unsolicited public application is not available.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
