Grants
Updated 5/2025
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.
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.
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)
Opens: Now
Due: December 1, 2025
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture offers White-Reinhardt Scholarships to the attend the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference to full-time educators and/or volunteers that actively participate in classroom agriculture literacy programs or events. This scholarship program is to provide travel expense funds to attend the national conference and then use the information gained to expand their outreach to students regarding food, fiber and fuel.
Opens: Now
Due: November 15, 2025
Thanks to the generosity of CHS Foundation and CoBank, funding is available to provide 40 classrooms with funding for ag literacy projects. These $500 grants are available to pre-kindergarten-12th grade teachers who have classroom projects that use agricultural concepts to teach reading, writing, math, science, social studies and more. Eligible projects include classroom and schoolyard gardens, embryology projects, aquaculture projects and agricultural literacy reading programs to name a few. Projects need to be completed by June 1 the following year to allow for submission of a final report by June 30. Only state-certified classroom teachers employed by a school district or private school teachers are eligible to apply.
Open: Now
Closes: October 15, 2025
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.
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