Landscape Resilience Grant

About this grant

The Alcoa Foundation, founded in 1952, funds charitable projects that advance sustainable social, environmental, and economic outcomes, with priority given to regions where Alcoa operates. Its work is organised around three priority areas: Community Resilience, Economic Resilience, and Landscape Resilience. The Landscape Resilience area supports biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, habitat restoration, and greenspace and waterways stewardship. The page gives no separate budget, grant size, or programme guidelines for this area. The Foundation looks for projects that align with its focus areas, are based where Alcoa operates, produce outcomes that can be measured and communicated, can be sustained without ongoing Foundation funding, and can meet granting and reporting requirements. It also values inclusion of diverse and underserved populations and volunteering opportunities where feasible. The Foundation reports 2025 total charitable support of USD 7,077,197 across 61 projects in 10 countries, including Alcoa Foundation, Instituto Alcoa, and corporate-funded initiatives. This is an aggregate figure across all priority areas, not a grant range.

Eligibility

Grant applications are by invitation only, and the Foundation states it is not accepting unsolicited grant requests at this time. Eligible projects must be carried out by charitable organisations and fall within the Landscape Resilience priority area, and must be based in regions where Alcoa operates. The page does not list specific countries or organisation types beyond these conditions.

How it's scored

The page does not describe a scoring system, weightings, or panel composition. It lists selection considerations: alignment with priority focus areas, location in Alcoa operating regions, measurable and trackable outcomes, long-term sustainability without ongoing Foundation funding, capacity to meet agreement and reporting terms, commitment to inclusion of diverse and underserved populations, and volunteering opportunities where appropriate.

Key requirements

• ✓Project must align with biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, habitat restoration, or greenspace/waterway stewardship
• ✓Work must be located in communities where Alcoa operates
• ✓Applicant organization type must be eligible (nonprofit, community-based, research, or local government preferred)

Recent past awardees

Knowing who's won the last rounds tells you whether you're in the strike zone.

• Waalitj Foundation
• Rivers of Steel

Frequently asked questions

Who can apply for Landscape Resilience?

Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; nonprofit, charity, community-group, local-authority, university, research-institution. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

Relevant sectors

About this sector

Biodiversity funding backs habitat restoration, species protection, protected areas and nature-positive business. It comes from environment agencies, multilateral nature funds and conservation philanthropy, often through competitive calls with defined regions. Applicants are usually asked for baseline surveys, local partners and indicators that show ecological change.