Carolyn Foundation Environmental Grant

Carolyn Foundation Environmental Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Carolyn Foundation
Amount: US $15,000 - US $25,000
Last Updated: December 29, 2025

Summary

The Carolyn Foundation Environmental Grant focuses on combating climate change through community-led initiatives in Minnesota and Indigenous Nations. The Foundation prioritizes organizations that work towards aggressive carbon reduction goals by 2030 to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Eligible applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations, not classified as private foundations. The Foundation seeks to support efforts that enhance community engagement and energy efficiency, ensuring equity and environmental justice in policy reforms.

Overview

Carolyn Foundation Our vision is to improve the lives of children/families, communities, and the environment through the involvement of successive generations of the family of Carolyn McKnight Christian. We make community grants in New Haven, CT, and Minneapolis, MN, and climate change grants in Minnesota. Within climate change grantmaking we focus on efforts to mitigate and adapt for climate change: Carolyn Foundation’s highest environmental priority is addressing climate change as the most important issue affecting our world. The Foundation’s objective is to support aggressive & equitable carbon reduction between now and 2030 as the foundation for achieving net-zero carbon by 2050. The Foundation’s objective is to support aggressive & equitable carbon reduction between now and 2030 as the Foundation for achieving net-zero carbon by 2050. So as we look at requests, we will prioritize organizations explicitly addressing carbon reduction and community impact. Organizations that prioritize other essential environmental issues, water, toxics, and food, and only tangentially impact climate, are unlikely to be funded. We also focus on the intersection of climate and communities. We want to support community-led efforts such as: increasing energy efficiency, mobilizing community action, bringing community voice to policy tables, and collaborating with other climate advocacy groups to ensure the community impact and equity are designed into policy and administrative reform.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The Foundation only funds organizations which are exempt from Federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which are not classified as Private Foundations. Geography: Minnesota and the Indigenous Nations

Ineligibility

The Foundation generally does not make grants to:Individuals, political organizations or candidates, veterans’ organizations, fraternal societies or orders, nor does it support courtesy advertising, or respond to telephone solicitations. Religious organizations for religious purposes. Organizations in support of operations carried on in foreign countries. Federated fund drives, for the purpose of redistribution to those groups to which they make grants. The Foundation may on occasion, make grants to umbrella organizations for specific needs they may have as it relates to our funding priorities. Annual fund drives. Cover deficits already incurred. Organizations for one-time events such as conferences, seminars, fund-raiser events, dinners, or other such requests for contributions