Clif Family Foundation Open Call Grant

Clif Family Foundation Open Call Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Clif Family Foundation
Amount: US $5,000 - US $50,000
Last Updated: January 15, 2026

Summary

The Clif Family Foundation Open Call invites 501(c)(3) organizations to apply for grants supporting general operating costs or specific projects. With a focus on regenerative farming, food worker health, climate justice, and food access, the foundation aims to empower grassroots initiatives. Grants range from $5,000 to $50,000, with applications reviewed twice a year. Deadlines are March 1 and August 1, and announcements occur about four months post-deadline.

Overview

About Welcome to the Clif Family Foundation, an organization we started in 2006 to support grassroots groups led by people with vision and commitment. We believe that much of our nation's needed innovation will spring from grassroots organizations' daily efforts in local communities. The foundation has been proud to support hundreds of nonprofits that are working tirelessly to transform our food system, revitalize the environment, and enhance community health. Now that we’re grandparents, the urgency to build a healthy, just, and ecologically thriving world is even more personal. We look forward to expanding the reach and impact of the foundation in the years to come. This means working with nonprofits that prioritize people-centered solutions and address urgent gaps and historically underfunded priorities. We believe we can all do more good in the world. Together. Strategic Priorities Regenerative and Organic Farming: Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches. Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety: Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers. Climate Justice: Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized. Healthy Food Access: Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate. Inclusive Outdoor Access: Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health. Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution: Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from our air, water, soil, and human-made materials. Open Call These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization. The Foundation reviews applications twice a year; the deadlines are March 1 and August 1. Grant announcements occur approximately four months after the deadline. Typical grants range from $5,000 - $50,000 and last for one year.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. These grants support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization.

Ineligibility

Areas not fundedAfter school academic-based programs Capital construction (construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building) Chapters of national organizationsDeficit funding EndowmentsFaith-based or religious organizationsFood banks (unless engaged in wider systemic change)Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala) Individuals Local and state public sector or government agencies Media projects (such as films, books, radio) Medical or health centers Natural disaster/emergency first responsePrimarily pass-through grant programming Product donations PTAs/PTOs, or individual school boosters Sponsorships Summer Camps