Small Collections Grants
Funding Amount
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Deadline
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Grant Type
Foundation
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Geography
- Located in any part of the World will be considered
Other requirements
- _You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's [website](https://www.iaptglobal.org/scg-conditions)._
- Grants are open to small herbaria with fewer than 100,000 specimens
- Herbaria must be listed in the [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/)
- Applications must be submitted by a collection director, curator, or manager
Overview
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IAPT will provide competitive grants for the improvement and/or maintenance of botanical collections (herbaria) of algae, fungi, and or plants.
Collection improvements include digitization projects, processing specimen backlogs, shipping endangered collections to other herbaria, conservation improvements to current specimens, and/or other herbaria-related activities. Requests for materials to mount herbarium specimens will also be considered.
Eligibility
_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._
- Grants are open to small herbaria with fewer than 100,000 specimens.
- Herbaria must be listed in the Index Herbariorum.
- Proposals from herbaria located in any part of the World will be considered.
- Applications must be submitted by a collection director, curator, or manager.
_You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Applicants must be IAPT members at the time of the grant submission to be eligible for the IAPT grant._
What International Association actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 51
- Total given
- $101K
- Median grant
- $2,000
- Range
- $1,500–$2,000
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Aneeqa Ghafoor
Untangling the systematic diversity, distribution and conservation of genus morchella…
$2,000
Caroline Da Cruz Vasconcelos
Building a near-infrared spectral library to reveal new species of ecclinusa…
$2,000
Dipankar Borah
Unraveling species boundaries within the begonia aborensis-silletensis complex of the…
$2,000
Eddy Martinez Quesada
Taxonomy, biography, and conservation of dendrophthora genus (santalaceae-visieae)
$2,000
John Michael Lastimoso
Setting the record straight on sargassum (fucales, heterokontophyta) taxonomy in the…
$2,000
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
- Environmental conservation
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