Food Systems funders

Grants and contracts for sustainable food production, supply-chain resilience and nutrition. Funded by the USDA, EU CAP and Horizon Cluster 6, the World Bank and IFAD, and food-systems philanthropy such as the Rockefeller and Bezos Earth funds. The organisations listed below are the food systems 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 food systems. There are currently 651 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.

The funders active in food systems span public agencies, private foundations, development finance institutions and corporate venture arms. The mix matters when you are planning a raise: a public agency and a corporate venture arm fund the same food systems 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.