The Clif Family Foundation provides grants to support general operating cost or specific projects and applicants must be registered as (or fiscally sponsored by) a 501(c)3 organization.
Donor Name: Clif Family Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/01/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priorities
- Regenerative and Organic Farming
- Accelerate the adoption of regenerative farming practices, including organic, climate-resilient, equitable, and agroecological approaches.
- Food Production Workers’ Health and Safety
- Amplify efforts to secure healthy, safe, just, and empowering working and living conditions for food production workers.
- Climate Justice
- Expand community-centered solutions to climate change that build resilience and empower those who have been historically marginalized.
- Healthy Food Access
- Advance food systems’ changes that make healthy and sustainably produced food accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate.
- Inclusive Outdoor Access
- Catalyze solutions that expand access to safe places to enable healthy physical activity and improve mental health.
- Indoors and Outdoors Safe from Pollution
- Promote preventative health approaches by identifying and eliminating toxics from the air, water, soil, and human-made materials.
Funding Information
Typical grants range from $5,000 – $50,000 and last for one year.
Guidelines
Priority is given to applicants that:
- Advance the strategic priorities and align with the values
- Focus their work primarily in the United States and its unincorporated territories
- Demonstrate strong community ties
- Have operating budgets under $8MM
- Operate at the grassroots level to implement change at the local, state or national stage.
Areas not funded
- After school academic-based programs
- Capital construction (construction, demolition, renovation, or renewal of a public building)
- Chapters of national organizations
- Deficit funding
- Endowments
- Faith-based or religious organizations
- Food banks (unless engaged in wider systemic change)
- Fundraising events (e.g., fun run, challenges, annual gala)
- Individuals
- Local and state public sector or government agencies
- Media projects (such as films, books, radio)
- Medical or health centers
- Natural disaster/emergency first response
- Primarily pass-through grant programming
- Product donations
- PTAs/PTOs, or individual school boosters
- Sponsorships
- Summer Camps
For more information, visit Clif Family Foundation.
