Environmental Justice funders

Grants for community-led environmental and energy-equity work. Active funders include the US EPA Environmental and Climate Justice programme, foundations such as the Bezos Earth Fund and Kresge, US community foundations, and EU Just Transition instruments. The organisations listed below are the environmental justice funders behind that picture, each with what it backs, where it operates and how it prefers to be approached.

Funders span innovation agencies, environmental regulators, financial-sector bodies and a large group of foundations funding community and justice work. The foundations in this group are among the most open to unsolicited approaches in the whole directory, and they typically fund organisations and programmes over several years rather than single projects.

This page lists every funder in the Raise Lens directory whose stated focus includes environmental justice. There are currently 32 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 environmental justice include African Climate Foundation, Allianz Foundation, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and 2 others. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same environmental justice 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.