Updated July 15, 2025
There are many garden grants available in the United States to support local school, community, and nonprofit gardening projects. Please visit the links below for grant information.
- School Garden Grants
- Community Garden Grants
- Veterans and People with Disabilities Garden Grants
- Organic Farming and Horticulture Grants
- Other Gardening Resources for Kids
Formerly the Growing Spaces In-Kind Grant
Growing Spaces has been actively working with nonprofits to provide fresh organic produce for over a decade. Recognizing that food banks across the country needed to increase production to meet the growing demand caused by the pandemic and inflation, we formalized our In-Kind Grant program in 2021.
Growing Spaces is always looking for more opportunities to give back and help a larger portion of the community. That’s why we are retiring our In-Kind Grant program and expanding our blanket discount for nonprofits, schools, and government entities. Use code COMMUNITY6 to receive a 6% discount off the Growing Dome base kit price. If you are a registered 501(c)(3) organization, PreK-12 school, or Government Entity (city, county, state, federal, or tribal governments), you are eligible for this discount. Verification may be requested. We hope this helps you take that next step toward bringing your garden dreams to life.
Links to Garden Grants
School Garden Grants
Colorado Garden Foundation – Has awarded more than $13 million in grants to fund gardening and horticulture projects for Colorado. All the proceeds from the Colorado Home and Garden Show go to support these garden grants. Visit the website to learn about their grants.
Whole Foods Market – “Our Garden Grant program provides a $3,500 monetary grant to support a new or existing edible educational garden located at a K–12 School in the U.S. or Canada.” Visit the website to learn about their grants.
Kids Gardening – “KidsGardening offers a variety of grants to new and existing youth garden programs across the nation. Each funding opportunity has its own timeline, defining features, eligibility requirements, and reporting expectations.” Visit their website to learn more.
American Heart Association Teaching Gardens Network – The Teaching Gardens Network is a one-stop shop for everything schools will need to start or enhance a school garden. By joining the network you gain access to possible Grant opportunities for funding your garden, free gardening materials, and resources, digital cross-curricular, standards-based gardening and nutrition education curriculum, a downloadable Teaching Gardens Network certificate, and recognition on their website. Visit the website to join their Teaching Gardens Network.
Big Green Real Food Grow Here – The Big Green DAO periodically opens grant opportunities to nonprofit organizations and schools working to grow food. When a grant cycle opens, each member of the Community votes on how much of the Treasury will be used, eligibility, and who should receive grants and how much the grant should be. Grants are awarded based on optimized consensus to reflect the majority perspective of the Community. Visit their website to learn more about this opportunity.
Captain Planet Foundation™ – Invests in high-quality, solution-based programs that embrace STEM learning and environmental education. They empower youth to become local and global environmental change-makers. Explore the programs on their website to find out how you can get involved and receive a grant!
California Fertilizer Foundation – The California Fertilizer Foundation’s (CFF) School Garden Program strives to increase the understanding and awareness of agriculture and plant nutrition in California’s youth through school gardens. Visit the website to learn about their grants and additional school resources.
Herb Society of America – Thanks to the generosity of Donald Samull, who made a planned gift to The Herb Society of America, an herb garden grant program for elementary school classes was established more than a decade ago. These grants ensure that learning about herbs can be part of the curriculum, a resource Mr. Samull — an elementary school teacher — regularly used in his own classroom. Elementary classrooms grades K-6 with ten students or more may apply for a grant to establish an herb garden. Visit their website to also explore regional scholarships.
National Head Start Association – The GroMoreGood initiative makes garden grants, garden kits, educational curriculum, and garden training available to all Head Start programs with the goal of creating more edible gardens for young children and their families. The initiative also supports the creation of green space projects as an option for children and the community to learn. Must be a Head Start program to apply. Visit the website to learn about their grants.
Community Garden Grants
America in Bloom – America in Bloom and the CN Railway have partnered to create the “EcoConnexions From the Ground Up” grants program. With a true transcontinental network that extends to three North American coasts, CN passes through a wide range of urban and rural communities. We encourage communities along the CN corridor to take environmental action by improving their communities through healthy urban forests, natural landscaping, groundcover improvement, and flower displays. Visit the website to learn about their grant criteria.
Seed Money – is a Maine-based nonprofit providing grants, crowdfunding opportunities, and training to food garden projects across the country and around the world. Visit their website to learn about the types of grants they offer to nonprofit food garden projects.
National Garden Bureau – For therapeutic garden programs. Schools, nonprofits, hospitals, retirement centers, rehabilitative facilities, veteran facilities, community centers, inter-generational groups, job-training centers, food pantries, and public gardens throughout the United States and Canada are eligible. Visit their website to subscribe to their newsletter and receive Information when the Therapeutic Garden Grant is Open.
Fruit Tree Planting Foundation – The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is an award-winning international nonprofit charity dedicated to planting fruitful trees and plants to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water. FTPF programs strategically donate orchards where the harvest will best serve communities for generations, at places such as community gardens, public schools, city/state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, international hunger relief sites, and animal sanctuaries. Visit the website to learn about their grant requirements.
Veterans and Disability Garden Grants
USDA Veterans Grants – Enhancing agricultural opportunities for veterans. The Enhancing Agricultural Opportunities for Military Veterans Program provides grants to nonprofits to increase the number of military veterans gaining knowledge and skills through comprehensive, hands-on, and immersive model farm and ranch programs offered regionally that lead to successful careers in the food and agricultural sector. Visit the website to learn about eligibility requirements and the awards process.
Farmer Veteran Fellowship Program – The Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund is a small grant program that provides direct assistance to veterans who are in their beginning years of farming or ranching. The Fellowship Fund does not give money directly to the veteran, but rather to third-party vendors for items the veteran has identified will make a crucial difference in the launch of their farm business. Visit their website to learn how the fellowship fund works.
Organic Farming and Horticulture Grants
Future Farmers of America – Living to Serve Grants provides an opportunity for FFA chapters and state FFA associations/foundations to seek funding to support various types of service projects through a competitive application process. Applicants must identify a community need that falls within one of four focus areas: community safety, hunger, health and nutrition, environmental responsibility, or community engagement. Visit the website to learn about their resources and to plan your service project.
Blooming Prairie Foundation – Grants for innovative practices in the area of organic and natural foods. Visit the website to review their grant information and qualifications.
Herb Society of America – The grants listed on their page are for the research of the horticultural, scientific, and/or social use of herb gardens throughout history. Visit the website to learn about their grants.
California ReLeaf Grants – Offers smaller minimum award amounts and technical assistance to help make funds accessible and the projects successful. Past grantees have included not just urban forest nonprofits, but also youth organizations, museums, neighborhood associations, civic groups, faith-based groups, sustainability initiatives and more. They prioritize projects that demonstrate strong community engagement, and the placement of trees where they will have the best multi-benefit impact in the community. They also have a link to other grant opportunities for California. Visit the website and subscribe to get funding alerts in your inbox.
Wild Ones – Healing the Earth one yard at a time. For more than 25 years, this donor-funded program has provided grants ranging from $100 to $500 for native plant gardens and landscaping projects throughout the United States. The funds are designated for acquiring native plants and seeds for outdoor learning areas that engage youth (preschool to high school) directly in planning, planting, and caring for native plant gardens. Visit the website to apply for the next planting season.
Other Grant Resources
GrantWatch – Grant listing directory
The Butterfly Website – Grant listing directory
The Awesome Foundation – The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Created in the long hot summer days of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. Visit the website to apply now.
Colorado Markets Funding – The Colorado Department of Agriculture Markets Division is pleased to offer loan and grant programs to help Colorado’s agriculture industry identify renewable energy opportunities, promote products, conduct feasibility studies, and to take advantage of local, regional, national and international market opportunities. Visit their website to explore grant and loan opportunities like community food access or the Climate Smart Market Expansion Project.
Other Gardening Resources for Kids
Paonia Soil Co./Soil That Serves – If you are a nonprofit, community garden, or school program and are interested in being considered to join Soil That Serves, visit their website to fill out and apply to receive their lowest soil cost opportunity.
Junior Master Gardener – The Junior Master Gardener program is an international youth gardening program of the university cooperative Extension network. JMG engages children in novel, “hands-on” group and individual learning experiences that provide a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment, and cultivate the mind. Visit their website to learn more.
Fundraising
You could also try starting up a fundraiser on Adopt A Classroom.org, KickStarter.com, or GoFundMe.com.
Good luck with your fundraising!