NC AgVentures is an NC State Extension program that provides cost-share grants to North Carolina family farm businesses, and local non-profit community organizations that work with family farms. The awards are based on a competitive process.
Donor Name: NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission
State: North Carolina
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/19/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
NC AgVentures is an NC State Extension program that provides cost-share grants to North Carolina family farm businesses, and local non-profit community organizations that work with family farms. The awards are based on a competitive process.
Funding Information
Maximum grant award is $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Family Farms that are organized as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or family corporation that are located in one of the counties listed below
- Non-profit community organizations such as livestock associations, farmers markets and Cooperative Extension that are working directly with family farms in the following counties are eligible to apply:
- Eligible counties: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Forsyth,, Gaston, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Iredell, Johnston, Lincoln, Martin, Mecklenburg, Nash, Northampton, Orange, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Rockingham, Rowan, Sampson, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Union, Vance, Wake, Wayne, Wilson, Wilkes, Warren, Yadkin.
- Applicants must be a current resident of North Carolina with an established independent farm operation in North Carolina.
- Grant recipients from 2024-2025 cycle must wait a year before they can submit another application.
- Farms that received 3 or more grants from NC AgVentures are no longer eligible.
- NC State Extension Agents, their spouses or partners are not eligible to apply for personal grants. Agents can write a Community Grant for the Extension office.
- NC State Employees are not eligible to apply for personal grants
- One Application per farm
- Married couples, domestic partnerships and business partners may only submit one application.
- The farm can be a sole proprietorship, LLC, partnership, or family corporation. Family farms exclude farms organized as nonfamily corporations or cooperatives.
For more information, visit NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission.
