New Earth Foundation Grant
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New Earth Foundation Grant
Status: ACTIVE
Funder: New Earth Foundation Inc.
Last Updated: November 25, 2025
Summary
The New Earth Foundation Grant aims to support innovative, humanitarian projects that promote sustainability, peace, and community development. Founded by John B. Loveland in 1997, the foundation focuses on assisting smaller 501(c)(3) organizations to create impactful solutions for societal challenges. Grants are awarded to projects that demonstrate innovation, community involvement, and the potential for replication, ensuring a lasting positive impact on both local and global scales.Overview
Vision In 1997, John B. Loveland MMsc founded New Earth Foundation™. His vision for New Earth Foundation was, and it still is, assisting to create an enhanced worldwide awareness, manifesting as universal peace and respect for all forms of life, the responsible use of Earth’s resources in sustainable ways, and a common realization that all is interconnected and One. New Earth Foundation envisions greater wisdom in handling human affairs, an increased understanding of other cultures by education, and the willingness to cooperate. Mission It is New Earth Foundation’s mission of peace and delight to fund innovative, humanitarian projects according to the vision of New Earth Foundation, from community efforts that create models of social sustainability, to educational innovations that prepare youth to be future socially responsible leaders; from strategies that offer economic advances, to environmental initiatives that curb pollution and save the planet’s precious resources and earth's natural biosphere. What NEF Seeks to Fund New Earth Foundation seeks to fund innovative projects that enhance life on our planet and brighten the future, furthering peace. Smaller, newer 501(c)(3) organizations are the focus of grants given, so that the foundation’s gift can make a more significant contribution to the work of the recipient organization. The grants given by NEF support a wide variety of projects in many fields of endeavor, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to help eliminate pollution and to save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders of the future, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities. NEF particularly appreciates projects that are replicable so that excellent ideas and work can multiply and benefit many. Criteria New Earth Foundation awards grants to projects that serve life's wellness and Earth's peace. NEF accepts Letters of Inquiry and invites Grant Applications according to the criteria listed below. The project meets NEF’s Vision and Missionis innovative, new, pioneering, even ingenious transforms an aspect of society and provides practical solutions fulfills an important and persisting need outlines one specific undertaking with clearly defined goals, implementation plan and expected results indicates who will benefit and how endeavors to involve those who are served in the planning process includes plans for replication so that benefits can multiply contains an evaluation process to measure success, progress, and future decision-making seeks community involvement and/or collaboration with other organizations is cost-effective with a realistic budget appropriate for the proposed program, and a suitable balance between project related administrative costs and benefits to those served has a plan of acquiring future funding from other sources has qualified staff/volunteers to carry out the project, with staff qualifications clearly specified has images of models/examples, and will provide such regarding work on the project and it's completionEligibility
You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Any organization with an IRS nonprofit 501 (c)(3) status in the USA might apply.Ineligibility
Although organizations with their specific types of projects listed below do valuable and important work, NEF does not give grants to:organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) tax statusindividualspersonal education expensesmainstream social services or organizations that are affiliated with a well-known national or community organization real estate, repairs, maintenance, building or renovation projectsgeneral organizational purposesstandard after-school programs, summer camps, or gardening programs, unless they are significantly innovative and pioneeringprojects not well-defined and focusedWhat New Earth Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 12
- Total given
- $22K
- Median grant
- $1,500
- Range
- $1,000–$4,500
- By dollars: Arizona 27%, New York 20%, Pennsylvania 14%. Top recipient cities: Sedona, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; West Edmeston, NY.
- 8% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 82% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Foresight Institute · Sedona, AZ
Step Forward Education
$4,500
Beyond the Bars Inc · Philadelphia, PA
An Ecosystem of Support for Youth Who Have Been Impacted By Violence
$3,000
Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc · West Edmeston, NY
Herbal Aid Program
$3,000
Beheard · Tulsa, OK
Mobile Drop in Center
$1,500
Think Regeneration NFP · Colona, IL
Advancing Food is Medicine
$1,500
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