Gray Family Foundation: Environmental Education Grant Program

The Gray Family Foundation's Environmental Education Grant Program aims to enhance K-12 environmental education by funding initiatives that connect youth with nature. With a budget of $705,000 for 2025, the foundation seeks to support both formal and informal learning opportunities, including outdoor experiences during school hours, afterschool, and summer programs. This initiative fosters a deeper understanding of environmental issues and promotes active engagement in nature, ensuring that young people develop a strong connection to their surroundings.

Note: Organizations should first contact staff with proposed requests beginning January 17,2025.
Environmental Education Program
The Gray Family Foundation’s Environmental Education program seeks to support programs that stimulate or promote the teaching of environmental education in K-12 environments and increases outdoor experiences that connect youth with built and natural environments.
In 2025 Gray Family Foundation continues to seek applications and fund organizations and programs that inspire and promote outdoor, environmental, land-based, and/or climate education in formal and informal K-12 educational environments and increase outdoor experiences for youth – either during the school day, during afterschool or the summer, or as a service or opportunity offered to families and youth outside of the context of the school setting.
The Gray Family Foundation total budget in 2025 for environmental education grants is $705,000. We anticipate maintaining this funding level for the foreseeable future, which will include multi-year commitments, new grant funding, and grants distributed to intermediary organizations to support individual schools. The goal of our 2025 strategy is to effectively support the ecosystem of organizations, schools, educators, and youth-serving organizations essential to ensuring that youth have the opportunity to connect with and learn in the outdoors.