California Environmental Grassroots Fund
Forecasted
California Environmental Grassroots Fund supports community-rooted California groups with general organizational funding for advocacy and organizing to advance environmental justice and climate resilience.
Funder: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Typically $4,000–$7,500, maximum $7,500, for one year of general organizational support
Summary: Supports small, community-rooted California groups building climate resilience and advancing environmental justice through advocacy, organizing, and related environmental work.
Key Information: Applicants generally must have annual income or expenses of $150,000 or less; exceptions are considered case by case.
Description
The California Environmental Grassroots Fund, administered by Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, supports small and emerging local groups across California. This pooled re-granting fund is supported by foundations and individual donors and guided by a funding board of community activists and veteran funders. It provides general organizational support to grassroots organizations underserved by most foundations’ funding strategies.
Supported issues include environmental health and justice, climate advocacy and resilience, land management and urban sprawl, habitat and wilderness protection, water resources, sustainable agriculture, and pollution and toxics. Activities include community-based advocacy, litigation, restoration, organizing, grassroots campaigns, and environmental education. The fund emphasizes movement-building, broad outreach, and locally rooted work with a strategic view of larger environmental challenges, prioritizing groups serving and representing BIPOC, frontline, immigrant, low-income, and other historically marginalized or impacted communities.
