The Oak Hill Fund is a private family foundation (formed in 2002) that operates a Healthy People – Healthy Planet portfolio of six program areas and accepts letters of inquiry via an online grantee portal for open programs. It only awards grants to organizations tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3).

Must be tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code | No funding for individuals, capital campaigns, endowments, or book and film writing/publication

Chesapeake Bay & Water Quality

FY26 Ruth D. Gates Coral Reef Conservation Grants - Fishery Management

The amount of $2,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from Illinois General Revenue Funds to the Environmental Protection Agency to provide a grant to Lewis and Clark Community College for purposes of the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC).

National Great Rivers Research and Education Center FY 2027

The Foundation provides operating, project and capital grants. Grant applications begin with a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) submitted via the Foundation's online portal; the Foundation carries out two grantmaking cycles each year.

Work must be tax-exempt charitable work, typically under a 501(c)(3) public charity or a public institution (501(c)(4) only in certain circumstances). | Primary geographic focus is Texas; work outside Texas accepted by invitation only. | For community parks, environmental education programs and animal welfare, focus is on greater Houston and central Texas; outside these areas by invitation only. | The Foundation typically does not fund galas/fundraising events; grants, scholarships or memorials for individuals; endowment funds; religious activities; ongoing maintenance and operations for parks and park conservancies; species-specific animal rescue and transport efforts or trap-neuter-release (TNR) programs.

Jacob & Terese Hershey Foundation Grants

The Foundation accepts electronic grant requests via a single application; the Board meets quarterly to consider requests and gives priority to applicants located in and/or serving Fort Wayne and Allen County, IN.

Must be tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) | Must qualify as a 509(a) public charity | No grants to private individuals | No grants for general fund drives, annual charitable appeals, or to influence legislation or elections | No grants to an organization for distribution to ultimate beneficiaries of its own choosing

M.E. Raker Foundation Grants

Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials for fiscal year (FY) 2026

This Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Grant Program (Program) responds to recent legislation and executive orders addressing California’s wildfire crisis.  In November of 2024, California voters approved Proposition 4, the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, commonly known as the “Climate Bond.” In April 2025, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 100 (Gabriel), which allocates $30.9 million from the 2024 Climate Bond to the SNC for the purposes of wildfire prevention and forest resilience, including improving local fire prevention capacity, improving forest health and resilience, and reducing the risk of wildfire spreading into populated areas from wildlands.  This Program seeks to create more resilient forest landscapes and watersheds and reduce wildfire risk. The climate and ecological benefits of forest-restoration treatments are well known. Ecologically sound forest management, including beneficial fire, and community protection are critical in securing the overall well-being of the Sierra-Cascade.  To be eligible to receive a grant award from the SNC under this Program, projects must meet all of the following criteria: Result in a clear, demonstrable, and enduring public benefit; be located within the Sierra-Cascade as defined by current SNC governing legislation; must align with one of the Program priorities identified in the guidelines; be consistent with the SNC mission and program areas as defined in the SNC Strategic Plan; be consistent with the requirements of the funding source and budget provisions; and meet all California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, as applicable.  The SNC proposal process involves concept and full proposal phases. To initiate consideration of a project, an applicant must contact the appropriate SNC Area Representative. If it is determined that the SNC will consider the project, the applicant will receive a concept proposal form and SNC will assist in the development of the project.  After concept proposals are submitted, the evaluation team will review them based on the first three evaluation criteria described in the Guidelines. These criteria are: 1) Public and Natural Resource Benefits and Alignment with Funding and Program Goals, 2) Project Design and Budget, and 3) Landscape Context.  Based on the funding available, top scoring concept proposals may be invited to submit a full proposal. If it is determined that the SNC will consider partnering on the project, the applicant will be asked to submit a full proposal. The SNC will share the full proposal form with the applicant and assist in developing the project.  The SNC may give favorable consideration to projects which: are forest-health projects that result in multiple benefits; involve California Native American tribes; were identified in a collaboratively developed regional plan, such as the Regional Priority Plan; directly benefit SDAC, DAC, or Vulnerable Populations; engage a workforce-development effort; or enable the equitable geographic distribution of SNC resources.  Please review the full grant program guidelines.

Nonprofit; Public Agency; Tribal Government

2026 Wildfire and Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program

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 15, 2026.  Full invited proposals are due by 3 p.m. (PST), November 4, 2026.  This solicitation will fund collaborative research that supports 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(s) 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)      Include a bullet point about PODs (from Tadashi and Eric)  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 implementation of forest treatments 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 of 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).

Chesapeake Bay & Water Quality

About this program

Eligibility

Contact & website

oakhillfund.org

Past recipients

2024

The Faison Center

$250,000

Piedmont Housing Alliance

$150,000

The Virginia League For Planned Parenthood

$125,000

Women'S Emergency Network Inc

$100,000

Repro Rising Virginia Foundation

$100,000

James River Association

$85,000

Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association

$80,000

Dc Abortion Fund

$80,000

Pro-Choice North Carolina Foundation

$75,000

Closed

~$20K (572 grants)

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