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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “grazing”
Where the money went
Largest: $175,000 to PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA — project support for promoting regenerative grazing
Chesapeake Bay FoundationAnnapolis, MDCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $259,070 · through 2024Largest: $108,326 to Conservation and Development Area Council — expanding rotational grazing through the mountains to bay grazing alliance.
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
14 matching grants · $2.6M · through 2023Largest: $117,166 to NATIONAL GRAZING LANDS COALITION — technologies to improve fl grazing land management
Defenders of WildlifeWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $97,500 · through 2024Largest: $7,500 to Strayhorse Ranch — to assist with costs associated with your efforts to avoid livestock depredation by wolves on your grazing allotment in the apache-sitgreaves national forest during the summer/fall…
The Nature ConservancyArlington, VACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $99,522 · through 2024Largest: $37,500 to ILLINOIS GRAZING LANDS COALITION — conservation activities
Largest: $35,000 to KANSAS GRAZING LANDS COALITION — further organization's exempt purpose
Largest: $160,000 to DAIRY GRAZING APPRENTICESHIP — workforce training and development models to scale regenerative dairy grazing with integrity
Largest: $650,000 to DAIRY GRAZING APPRENTICESHIP — graze magazine grant
Mad AgricultureBoulder, COCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $52,549 · through 2024Largest: $20,000 to Grama Grass and Livestock — to support the hiring of an employee that increases the number of grazing-as-a-service partnerships
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxFort Worth, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $31,000 · through 2024Largest: $11,000 to FOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER INC — for the purchase of a no-till drill to plant native grasses for erosion control and wildlife grazing
Inquiring SystemsSanta Rosa, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $28,982 · through 2023Largest: $14,491 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — to support bren school field-based research on the effects of livestock and native herbivore grazing on point reyes national seashore.
Largest: $115,000 to Bird Conservancy of the Rockies — sustainable grazing network in mx / roadmap
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →