Biodiversity and Nature funders

Grants for nature restoration, habitat protection and biodiversity-positive business. Typical funders are the Global Environment Facility, EU LIFE and Horizon, national environment ministries, and conservation philanthropy. The organisations listed below are the biodiversity and nature funders behind that picture, each with what it backs, where it operates and how it prefers to be approached.

Funders span environment and agriculture ministries, the multilateral banks, conservation foundations, and corporate buyers sourcing against deforestation and nature commitments. Foundations are more important in this area than in any other on the site, and most of them do accept unsolicited approaches, which is unusual. Where a funder works through intermediaries, the intermediary is normally the right first contact.

This page lists every funder in the Raise Lens directory whose stated focus includes biodiversity and nature. There are currently 64 of them: a mix of public agencies, foundations, development finance institutions, corporate programmes and climate investors. Each profile records what the funder backs, where it operates, whether it is open to unsolicited applications, and the opportunities it has published through Raise Lens.

Funders active in biodiversity and nature include ADM Capital, ADM Capital Foundation, Aera VC and 2 others. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same biodiversity and nature work on very different timelines, at different cheque sizes and against different eligibility rules, so the right first approach is rarely the same one.

Funder records are refreshed continuously and enriched from each organisation's own published material, so focus areas and application routes reflect what the funder currently says rather than what it said when the directory was first built. Where a funder runs named programmes, those appear as individual opportunities you can track and save.