Patagonia’s Corporate Grant

Patagonia’s Corporate Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Patagonia Org
Amount: US $5,000 - US $20,000
Last Updated: March 05, 2026

Summary

Patagonia’s Corporate Grant supports grassroots organizations focused on bold, direct-action campaigns that address the root causes of environmental issues. The program emphasizes equity, inclusivity, and long-term change, targeting communities affected by environmental exploitation. Grants are awarded to innovative groups within the US and Canada, fostering civic engagement and measurable objectives. Patagonia prioritizes funding for initiatives that confront systemic bias and promote environmental justice, ensuring that diverse voices are represented in the environmental movement.

Overview

How We Fund Patagonia supports environmental organisations with bold, direct-action agendas and a commitment to long-term change. We support innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. We focus on places where we’ve built connections through outdoor recreation and through our network of retail stores, nationally and internationally. We believe local battles to protect a specific stand of forest, a stretch of river, an indigenous wild species or a community from a polluting refinery build public support and confront larger, more complex issues like climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental justice. We encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defends communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. We support multipronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws. We fund work that: builds an equitable, inclusive and diverse environmental movement confronts systemic bias, discrimination and injustice in environmental policy or outdoor spaces is action-oriented focuses on root causes has a clear strategy identifies specific goals and objectives that can be effectively measured to evaluate success builds public involvement and civic engagement Patagonia’s Corporate Grant Our Corporate Grants Program supports grassroots activist organizations that have direct-action agendas and are working on strategic, multipronged campaigns to preserve and protect the environment. We support local groups that work to protect local habitats and frontline communities through bold, original actions. We are most interested in awarding these grants to organizations that identify and work on the root causes of problems, and approach issues with a commitment to long-term change. We look for innovative groups whose work includes specific goals, objectives, action plans and measures for evaluating success. Patagonia’s Corporate Grants Program funds organizations working within the US and Canada that are either national in scope or not local to one of our North American retail stores or wholesale partners. Proposals are reviewed and grants decisions are made by an employee-grants council at our company headquarters.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. We fund work that: takes place within the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. To qualify for Patagonia grant funding: Your organisation must be operated for the public goodYour organisation must be a registered Australian charity, or have a fiscal sponsor with such statusYour organisation, or your fiscal sponsor, must have a bank account for business purposes in the name of your organisationYou can use funds to educate the public on issues. You can do general voter registration work that is not favouring one candidate over the other.

Ineligibility

We do not fund: organizations that perpetuate systemic biases and discrimination based on ethnicity, race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship or veteran or disability statustrail creation, maintenance or restorationany dam renovations, human-assisted fish passage infrastructure or hatchery programsconservation easements or land acquisitionresearch, unless it is in direct support of a developed plan for specific action to alleviate an environmental problemwork that is solely focused on environmental educationenvironmental conferences, event sponsorships or film festivalsendowment fundspolitical campaignsbike advocacy, unless the project is in direct support of a climate change solution