The Wildseeds Grants program is the primary offering for non-profit, grassroots organizations.
Donor Name: Wildseeds Fund
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/27/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Through Wildseeds Grants, they resource movement organizers by investing in solutions that support the development of their ideas, amplification of their messages, and their long-term movement infrastructure.
The Wildseeds Grants program funds community organizations, strategists and media makers working to uplift frontline stories, build power, and embolden transformative food and farm systems change. They do this all in an effort to grow deeper roots with the grantee partners by making sure they have the infrastructure, communications skills, and strategic support they need to thrive now and forever.
The team uses a participatory grantmaking framework to build trust with the community and to inform the community project development decisions.
Wildseeds Grants support strategic communications efforts including, but not limited to:
- Base building communications projects that increase connectivity and grow collective power
- Integrated communications planning
- Communications-based professional development for staff/ leadership/ members
- Implementing or upgrading communications tools
- Development of content or creative media initiatives including videos, zines, websites, etc.
- Sourcing short-term communications staffing support or outside consulting
- Narrative development, message framing, and integration
- Campaigns, events, or experiences that use communications to foster engagement around food and farm issues
- Language justice planning and implementation.
Priorities
Wildseeds Fund has identified the following priorities as critical to building power in the food and farm system. They invest in projects that are grounded in and focus on one or more of the following:
- Cultural Organizing
- Inclusive Economic Models & Community-Controlled Systems
- Reclaiming Democracy
- Promoting Indigenous and Ancestral Foodways and Agricultural Practices.
Funding Information
Grants range from $20,000 to $50,000 over a one-year term.
Eligibility Criteria
- Is a U.S. based grassroots organization or network with 501(c)(3) status or with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor; or a tribal government
- Has an annual revenue of less than $3 million; or, if current revenue is over $3 million, has an average annual revenue over the last three years that is less than $3 million
- Is working on initiatives that directly affect change within food and agricultural systems (e.g. land sovereignty, food security, inclusive economy, water and soil stewardship, climate justice, labor organizing, sustainable/regenerative/reindigenized practices and healing traditions)
- Operates from a deeply shared understanding of structural and institutional racism in the food and farm system and actively works to advance racial equity and justice
- Is committed to integrating the leadership of constituents within the organization’s staffing, advising, and governance structures
- Focuses on one or more of the following priorities: Cultural Organizing; Inclusive Economic Models & Community-Controlled Systems; Reclaiming Democracy; Promoting Indigenous and Ancestral Foodways and Agricultural Practices.
For more information, visit Wildseeds Fund.
