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| Organization Name | Grant Name | Grant Amount | Grant Cycle | Region |
Grand Prairie Friends | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $40,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
Funds will be used to supplement the general operating budget of Grand Prairie Friends, including additional and sustained staffing, maintenance of 1,200 acres, insurance, and other essential expenses to provide equitable access for all community members. | ||||
Fresh Taste – Midwest Regenerative Agriculture Fund (Fiscal Sponsor: Forefront) | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $50,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
The I-Regen initiative is intended to deepen commitment to Regenerative Agriculture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), through research and university/community partnerships engaging key actors in the food system: producers, landowners, value chains, end users, scientists, NGOs, technology firms, policy makers, the financial sector, and experts in multiple disciplines. | ||||
Delta Institute | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $30,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
Funding to continue and scale Delta Institute’s soil health land appraisal efforts to achieve a “tipping point” of data, knowledge, and network to standardize their appraisal methodology within the agricultural land appraisal process to drive farmer adoption of soil health-focused conservation practices. | ||||
Climate Land Leaders | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
The Climate Land Leaders Initiative will recruit six Central Illinois farmers and landowners to serve as leaders on federal, state, and local boards and commissions that make critical decisions on funding and implementation of nature-based climate solutions. The Land Leaders will also be featured as speakers and field day hosts to share conservation challenges and opportunities in implementing perennial enterprises and natural area restoration. | ||||
City of Mattoon | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $20,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
The City of Mattoon has planted 151 trees since the start of its partnership with the Lumpkin Family Foundation. This grant provides funding for tree removal and replacement in and around the city with a goal of planting 50 new trees per year through 2027. | ||||
Children’s Museum of Illinois | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $15,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
To establish and support the Curious by Nature monthly after school Climate Club at the Children’s Museum to engage kids ages 8–12 in hands-on climate education that is rooted in science, exploration, and hope. Participants will explore topics like composting, regenerative agriculture, clean energy, and green transportation through STEM projects, outdoor discovery, and creative problem-solving. | ||||
Champaign Parks Foundation | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $12,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
For the purchase of 60 trees to plant in Heritage Park along the Greenbelt Bikeway along the edges of the Copper Slough, a tributary to the Kaskaskia River. The new trees would establish the path through Heritage Park as a feature in the landscape to shade and shelter cyclists, making the Bikeway more attractive to commuters to Parkland College and recreational cyclists. | ||||
American Rivers | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $15,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
American Rivers will complete and begin implementation of an integrated floodplain management plan for Illinois that promotes equitable and sustainable nature-based adaptation policies, partnerships, and projects in the state. AFT will also work with the Illinois NAACP State Conference to build the capacity of community leaders to proactively engage in floodplain management decisions in their communities, including areas in East Central, by supporting the Illinois Floodplain Community Justice Network. | ||||
American Farmland Trust | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $50,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
American Farmland Trust (AFT) will expand its Farmer-Led Advances in Soil Health (FLASH) groups that engage farmer leaders and builds capacity for peer mentoring to address local water quality issues, and identify equipment share opportunities that reduce barriers to cover crop adoption. | ||||
American Farmland Trust | Nature-Based Climate Action Program | $40,000.00 | 2025 | East Central Illinois |
American Farmland Trust will expand their farmer-led, peer-to-peer programs that decrease waterway nutrient loading and sedimentation and help achieve water quality goals identified in Illinois’s Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy. AFT will establish at least 8 farmer-led groups, coordinating and supporting education and outreach to at least 100 local farmers in the Embarras watershed of East Central Illinois. | ||||
