Unsolicited general-support grants to nonprofit organizations (US-registered 501(c)(3) public charities; fiscally sponsored projects eligible). The program runs two unsolicited cycles per year, with awards up to $25,000 and priorities including agriculture, clean/safe drinking water, community engagement, water management, watershed advocacy, and racial equity.

Must be a US-registered 501(c)(3) public charitable organization (including educational institutions) or fiscally sponsored project | Organization must not have previously received a grant from The Campbell Foundation | Only one proposal per cycle may be submitted | The Foundation does not provide unsolicited grants for: Academic or Medical Research; Alcohol and Drug Recovery Programming; Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation; Boarding schools/private schools (including private preschools); City and county governments; Federal departments; Conservation Districts outside Chesapeake and California regions; Disease Research and Prevention; Ecosystem Restoration; Films; Hospitals; Individuals; International aid; Marine Protected Areas (Outside of California); Membership/dues based organizations; Non-Community-Based Fisheries and Ocean Management; Plastic Pollution; Programs or activities that require participation in religious activities; Projects not based in the US; Single Species Management or Conservation; Waterkeepers organizations outside of Chesapeake and California regions; Youth sports clubs

Unsolicited Grants Program

The WaterSMART Drought Response Program invites eligible applicants to submit proposals for projects designed to improve drought resilience by developing effective water management strategies and drought contingency plans. Funding supports infrastructure improvements for increased water storage and distribution, water source diversification, water management decision tools, and comprehensive planning for drought preparedness.

Eligible Entities Category A Applicants • States, Tribes, irrigation districts, and water districts; • State, regional, or local authorities, the members of which include one or more organizations with water or power delivery authority; • Other organizations with water or power delivery authority. Category B Applicants • Nonprofit conservation organizations that are acting in partnership with, and with the agreement of an entity described in Category A. Ineligible applicants include: Federal Governmental entities, individuals, and institutes of higher education Eligible Activities Proposed projects should aim to reduce the need for emergency drought response actions while providing sustained benefits that build long-term resilience. Funding is structured under two task areas: Task A: Infrastructure Projects: • System modifications or improvements , such as constructing surface water intakes to access supplies when water levels are low, new conveyance system components (pipelines, canals, pumping plants, etc.) to increase delivery flexibilities, or installing barriers to prevent saltwater intrusion into surface supplies. • Storing water and/or recharging groundwater supplies , such as developing off-stream storage ponds, installing water towers and storage tanks, installing recharge ponds or injection wells, etc. • Developing alternative water supply sources through the treatment and reuse of surface water and reclaimed water , such as constructing stormwater capture and reuse systems like raingardens and bioswales, or installing residential grey water and rain catchment systems. • Groundwater recovery and treatment projects , such as constructing or rehabilitating a well to provide back-up water supplies during times of drought, constructing an aquifer storage, or treating impaired water. Task B: Water Management and Planning Projects • Developing water management, water marketing, and modeling tools to help communities evaluate options and implement strategies to address drought. This includes developing online decision support tools to help communities identify alternative water supplies, installation of monitoring equipment to accurately track water supply conditions, developing water budgets and pricing programs that incentivize decreased consumptive use, and more. • Developing or updating Drought Contingency Plans. Proposed Drought Contingency Plans should be divided into two phases: • Phase I includes the establishment of a drought planning task force, development of a detailed work plan, and development of a communication and outreach plan. • Phase II begins after the work plan is accepted by Reclamation. In Phase II, the planning lead develops the plan or plan update including the required Drought Contingency Plan elements

WaterSMART Drought Response Program

A grant awarded from offerings collected at the Community Thanksgiving service; Foundation matches the offering (up to $5,000) and the selected local nonprofit is invited to share its mission and impact.

Organizations must provide services in one of the following areas: Family Services; Food, Hunger & Shelter; Health Services; Youth Services | Grant requests should support direct services benefiting Spartanburg County residents | Must be a nonprofit/tax-exempt organization

Community Thanksgiving Grant

The application consists of a concept proposal followed by review and selection. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal followed by a second review and selection period.  Concept proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PDT), July 30, 2026.  Full invited proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PST), November 14, 2026.  This solicitation funds collaborative research to support forest health and greenhouse‑gas reduction at landscape scales through improved forest and vegetation management across California. This solicitation is purposefully intended to consider research proposals that focus on a broad range of challenging questions relevant to forest and fire management at large spatial scales, and we encourage applications from any discipline that meaningfully intersect with landscape-scale management.  Research funded through this solicitation should be collaborative in nature, and include multiple partners working across organizations, institutions, jurisdictions, and/or disciplines. Projects should substantially advance their field of research and produce meaningful applied benefits for any of the following broad themes:  a)       improved forest or vegetation management strategies and activities to reduce unwanted disturbance impacts, promote recovery after disturbance, enhance carbon storage, sustain and promote biodiversity, improve water and air quality, provide regional economic benefits, or facilitate an adaptive management feedback loop  (including beneficial fire, tribal stewardship, forest fuels reduction, pest management, reforestation, biomass utilization, forest watershed restoration, upper watershed, riparian, and mountain meadow restoration) at landscape-scales;  b)    Improved decision support for planning and prioritizing risk reduction activities, including large-scale prescribed fire, across scales from Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) to individual projects. Improvements may include but are not limited to fire behavior modeling, fuels quantification, andprioritization schema.  c)       Improved understanding of current impacts of large-scale wildfires and other large disturbances, or management strategies within large disturbance footprints, such as second-entry treatments in fire footprints;  d)      Improved predictions of future conditions, disturbance regimes, or treatment effectiveness;  e)      Emissions reductions and/or avoided live vegetation losses, improved long-term carbon storage and sequestration, or improved quantitative assessment of greenhouse gas impacts across large scales; Or  f)        Improved policy related to the California Forest Carbon Plan or other State climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.  The research may – but is not required to – include forest treatment implementation such as forest fuels reduction, pest management, reforestation, biomass utilization, forest watershed restoration, upper watershed, riparian, and mountain meadow restoration. The research may – but is not required to – build off other previous or current implementation or research projects funded through other sources (e.g. Forest Health, Fire Prevention, Tribal Wildfire Resiliency, or other CAL FIRE or non-CAL FIRE grants).

Nonprofit; Public Agency; Tribal Government

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) Proposition 4 California Climate Bond Grants (RP-RFP-2026-03)

The application will consist of a concept proposal followed by review and selection. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal followed by a second review and selection period.  Concept proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PDT), July 30, 2026.  Full invited proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PST), November 18, 2026.  The Forest Health Research Program (hereafter “Research Program”) was established as part of CAL FIRE’s plan for implementing the California Forest Carbon Plan. It is one of several CAL FIRE programs funded through the California Climate Investments (CCI) program, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The mission of the Research Program is:  To identify and prioritize research topics in forest health and fire science critical to the State of California To fund sound scientific studies that support forest landowners, resource agencies, and fire management organizations within the state To ensure scientific information generated from the program is made available to support decision making and policy To further the goals of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, California Forest Carbon Plan, the California Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan, CCI, and AB 32 Global Warming Solutions Act  The program, procedures and requirements apply only to “stand-alone research” projects, where research-related activities are the only activities proposed. Research activities are no longer eligible as a component of larger management-oriented Forest Health projects.  The following topics have been identified as priorities for study for the Research Program for FY 2024-25. Topics are numbered for reference, but not ranked in terms of priority.  Research proposed under this solicitation must address one or more of these priority topics. Research projects should be focused on and relevant to California ecosystems and their management.  Recovery, restoration, regeneration and reforestation strategies following wildfires and other disturbances in an altered future climate. Implementation, effectiveness, impacts, and tradeoffs of current and alternative management strategies to reduce unwanted wildfire impacts to communities, improve hydrologic functions including water quality and supply, improve air quality, sustain and promote biodiversity, mitigate impacts of pests, pathogens, and invasive species. Methods of ecological monitoring to continually evaluate effectiveness, impacts and benefits of vegetation treatments at various scales. Community resilience to wildfires and other ecological disturbances under current and future climate conditions. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and tribal forest and fire management, especially research by tribal organizations or indigenous researchers. Forest products and utilization of forest residues related to fuel reduction and forest health treatments. Improved prediction of wildland fire spread, behavior, severity, and potential impacts, particularly under extreme weather conditions and/or within the wildland-urban interface.  Improved methods and applications for conducting cost-benefit analysis related to forest restoration, fuel treatments and other forest health interventions.

Individual; Nonprofit; Public Agency; Tribal Government

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) California Climate Investments Grants (RP-RFP-2026-01)

General grants program: the Foundation considers requests from 501(c)(3) public charities (not private foundations) and governmental units, with a geographic focus on Texas and a special emphasis on Houston; priorities include conservation, education, healthcare and programs for underprivileged youth.

Must be a 501(c)(3) public charity that is not a private foundation (509(a) public charity) | Governmental units described in Section 170 of the Code are eligible | Not a non-functionally integrated type III supporting organization (per Section 4942(g)(4)(A)(i)) | No grants to individuals | No grants to foreign charities | Will not directly or indirectly support candidates for political office or influence legislation

John M. O'Quinn Foundation Grants

The application will consist of a concept proposal followed by review and selection. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal followed by a second review and selection period.  Concept proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PDT), July 30, 2026.  Full invited proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PST), November 18, 2026.  The Forest Health Research Program (hereafter “Research Program”) was established as part of CAL FIRE’s plan for implementing the California Forest Carbon Plan. It is one of several CAL FIRE programs funded through the California Climate Investments (CCI) program, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The mission of the Research Program is:  To identify and prioritize research topics in forest health and fire science critical to the State of California   To fund sound scientific studies that support forest landowners, resource agencies, and fire management organizations within the state   To ensure scientific information generated from the program is made available to support decision making and policy   To further the goals of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, California Forest Carbon Plan, the California Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan, CCI, and AB 32 Global Warming Solutions Act  The program, procedures and requirements apply only to “stand-alone research” projects, where research-related activities are the only activities proposed. The following topics have been identified as priorities for study for the Research Program for FY 2026-27:  Recovery, restoration, regeneration and reforestation strategies following wildfires and other disturbances in an altered future climate.  Implementation, effectiveness, impacts, and tradeoffs of current and alternative management strategies to reduce unwanted wildfire impacts to communities, improve hydrologic functions including water quality and supply, improve air quality, sustain and promote biodiversity, mitigate impacts of pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and/or increase beneficial fire effects.   Methods of ecological monitoring to continually evaluate effectiveness, impacts and benefits of vegetation treatments at various scales.   Community resilience to wildfires and other ecological disturbances under current and future climate conditions. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and tribal forest and fire management, especially research by tribal organizations or indigenous researchers.  Forest products and utilization of forest residues related to fuel reduction and forest health treatments.Improved prediction of wildland fire spread, behavior, severity, and potential impacts, particularly under extreme weather conditions and/or within the wildland-urban interface.   In addition, the following special topic has been identified as priorities for the Research Program for FY 2026-27:  Utilizing novel applications of FireSat Quick Beam Instrument data to answer ecological questions.

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) California Climate Investments Graduate Student Grants (RP-RFP-2026-02)

Annual fund awarding grants to nonprofit organizations whose primary office or services are located in Thomas County, supporting local projects and capacity building.

Only nonprofit organizations whose primary office and/or services are located in Thomas County, Georgia are eligible to apply

Unsolicited Grants Program

About this program

Eligibility

Contact & website

Khloe Graczyk

[email protected]

(410) 990-0900

www.campbellfoundation.org

Past recipients

2024

Annandale Village

$64,000

Volunteers In Medcine

$10,600

The Childrens Center

$10,000

First Tee The Lowcountry

$7,586

Boys & Girls Club

$6,775

Boys & Girls Club

$3,000

Don Greer Mem Scholarship

$2,500

Kiwanis

$1,000

Doctors Without Borders

$250

Closes in 3 days

Up to $25,000

National · All 50 states

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WaterSMART Drought Response Program

$25.0K–$1.5M

Community Thanksgiving Grant

Up to $5.0K

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) Proposition 4 California Climate Bond Grants (RP-RFP-2026-03)

$1.0M–$1.5M

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) California Climate Investments Grants (RP-RFP-2026-01)

John M. O'Quinn Foundation Grants

~$35K

CAL FIRE Forest Health Research Program (FY 2026-27) California Climate Investments Graduate Student Grants (RP-RFP-2026-02)