Grants
Updated 2/2025
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
Due: Rolling Basis (Year-Round)
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is dedicated to planting fruitful trees and plants to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. FTPF programs strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations, at places such as community gardens, public schools, city/state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries.
Silos & Smokestacks Field Trip Award Program
Available throughout the 2024-2025 school year
The Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA) Field Trip Program is a grant initiative designed to help schools in the 37 county heritage area fund the transportation costs associated with field trips to designated SSNHA Heritage Sites and farm sites giving students the opportunity to learn about America’s agricultural heritage firsthand. The award funds 75% of the total amount of transportation costs to and from the school and the selected SSNHA Heritage Site or farm site. Award not to exceed $350.00.
Open: March 3 - April 15
Grants are a for K-12 public or nonprofit private school, charter school, community/junior college, state/private college or university; or a church or other faith-based organization, and range from $250-$5,000. Proposed projects must benefit the community at large.
Due: Every 30-60 days
Rural Tech Fund provide grants for Rural Technology Education projects and Assistive Technology projects.
Grants for your school to set up an aquaponics system.
Opens: March 2025
Due: June 13, 2025
The White-Reinhardt Grant Program funds projects that will increase agricultural literacy. County and state Farm Bureaus may apply for $1,000 grants for education programs for grades K-12 in order to initiate new ag literacy programs or expand existing programs. Organizations and individual schools can work with their local Farm Bureaus to apply. Grants are available on a competitive basis.
The White-Reinhardt Fund for Education is a special project of the Foundation in cooperation with the AFB Women’s Leadership Committee. It was established to honor two former chairs of that committee, Berta White and Linda Reinhardt, who were leaders in the national effort to improve agricultural literacy.
Open: March 2025
The Chrysalis Fund fosters the future of entomology through grants to K-12 teachers and other educators who use insects in the classroom to get kids excited about science.
Who can apply? K-12 teachers or other educators and organizers of educational programs
When is the grant application period?
The application period for the 2025-2026 academic opens March 2025.
What are the grant-funding levels? The amount of funding available in any year is set by the ESA Education and Outreach Committee. The same scoring rubric is used for reviewing all applications. The three levels for grant applications are:
Micro-grants (less than $500)
Regular grants ($500-$999)
Large grants ($1,000-$2,500)
Whole Kids Foundation: Garden Grants
Due: March 5, 2025
The Garden Grant program provides a $3,000 monetary grant to support a new or existing edible educational garden at either a: K–12 School, 501(c)(3) Non-profit working in partnership with a K–12 school, or a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Compeer Financial Agriculture Education Grant
Open: April 1, 2025
Closes: April 30, 2025
The mission of the Agriculture Education & Classroom Equipment Grant Program is to support agriculture education by funding programs and equipment for middle and high schools in Compeer Financial’s territory.
Hands-on learning and new technologies are crucial to showing students the limitless potential of agriculture. This grant program is designed to help fund agricultural education and classroom equipment so students have access to modern resources to broaden their perspective of the rapidly changing agricultural industry.
Middle and high school agriculture departments located in our 144-county territory
Up to $4,000 of funding is available per school for agriculture education or classroom equipment.
We do not provide funding for fundraising campaigns.
If awarded, all funds must be used by December 31 of the current calendar year.
Requests may be partially funded.
Funds are not for deficits already incurred.
Priority is given to high school-level agriculture programs.
Schools that did not receive a grant in the previous two years are eligible to apply this year. To find out if your school received a grant in the previous years, review the previous years’ press releases below listing the grant recipients.
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