Watershed Restoration Grant Program

_NOTE: Out of respect for applicants’ time and limited resources, before starting the application process, please contact the Foundation to discuss your organization’s work._

Support for Vital Ecosystems

The Watershed Restoration program focuses on restoration and revitalization of key watershed ecosystems within specific geographic areas in California and Oregon.

Programs/Projects We Fund

Those which:

• Incorporate environmental, economic, and social equity factors because solutions that merge these factors tend to have long-term success
• Preserve and build natural capital by consuming the growth of the environmental resource, rather than the resource itself
• Support creative solutions to revitalization and restoration that have the potential to serve as models for similar projects
• Are part of a cluster of projects in a given watershed involving one or more organizations over time (the Foundation believes this clustering of support at the watershed level will result in stronger partnerships and a greater impact)
• Foster collaborative partnerships even among groups with divergent interests
• Include activities that governmental agencies do not normally fund

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• The Bella Vista Foundation awards grants to public charities operating under an IRS 501(c)(3) status or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) organization.
• Where We Fund
• California,
• the entire Klamath Watershed; and
• in the Sierra Nevada,
• the Truckee River watershed,
• Yuba/Bear/American rivers, and
• the North Fork Feather River watershed; and
• in Oregon,
• the upper Deschutes Basin and
• the upper John Day Basin.
• The foundation will fund restoration projects that have an environmental education component, but only where restoration is the main and long-term focus.
• The foundation only supports non-sectarian programs.
• Only one request from an organization will be funded in a 12-month period.

Ineligibility

• The foundation does not award grants to individuals.
• The foundation does not fund land acquisition projects.
• The foundation does not award grants to public or private schools or their affiliated foundations.
• The foundation does not make grants to support endowments, events, concerts, annual appeals, videos or films, medical research, or capital campaigns.
• The foundation does not provide funding to programs that are solely virtual.
  • This includes software applications.