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COMPETITIVE GRANTS

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

TOTAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: $3,955,000

Total Grant Searle Funds 
​Angelic Organics Learning Center
In support of the Routes to Farm and Upper Midwest CRAFT programs, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$125,000 $125,000
Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA)
In support of general operations, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$125,000 $125,000
Advocates for Urban Agriculture (AUA)
In support of the Urban Growing Re-granting Program, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$170,000 $170,000
Artisan Grain Collaborative
In support of general operations, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. Grant made via fiscal sponsor, Global Philanthropy Partnership.
$115,000 $115,000
Basil’s Harvest, Inc.
In support of Farm-to-Hospital: Institutional Procurement of Local Food, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$110,000 $110,000
Chicago Food Policy Action Council (CFPAC)
In support of expanding the Good Food Purchasing Program, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$100,000 $100,000
Delta Institute
In support of the Regenerative Grazing Market-building Project, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$125,000 $125,000
Faith in Place
In support of the Congregation-supported Agriculture Program and commercial kitchen pilot, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$115,000 $115,000
FamilyFarmed
In support of general operations and the Good Food Accelerator, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$125,000 $125,000
FARM Illinois
In support of a network platform to promote collaboration and scale innovation across the Illinois agri-food economy, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. Grant made via fiscal sponsor, GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP.
$125,000 $125,000
ForeFront
In support of the Austin Fresh Funder Collaborative, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$250,000 $250,000
Fresh Taste
In support of Fresh Taste general operations, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. Grant made via fiscal sponsor, Forefront.
$90,000 $90,000
Fresh Taste
In support of the Chicago Region Food System Fund, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.. Grant made via fiscal sponsor, FOREFRONT.
$1,000,000 $1,000,000
Fresh Taste
In support of the Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust. Grant made via fiscal sponsor, FOREFRONT.
$115,000 $115,000
Green City Market
In support of the Green City Market, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$100,000 $100,000
Grow Greater Englewood
In support of Englewood Agriculture District Activities, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$175,000 $175,000
Growing Home, Inc.
In support of the Social Enterprise Enhancement project, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$140,000 $140,000
Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund
In support of the Resilient Local Food Coalition and Education Project, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$100,000 $100,000
Illinois Stewardship Alliance (ISA)
In support of local food farming advocacy, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$75,000 $75,000
Liberty Prairie Foundation
In support of land access programs in the Chicago foodshed, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$140,000 $140,000
NeighborSpace
In support of the Repurposing Underutilized Public Land for Food Production Initiative, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$90,000 $90,000
Openlands
In support of Dialogs on the Future of Food and Farming, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$70,000 $70,000
Seven Generations Ahead (SGA)
In support of the Food Waste Reduction Program, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$100,000 $100,000
The Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC)
In support of planning the farm component for the Academy campus, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$75,000 $75,000
The Conservation Fund
In support of Working Farms Fund Midwest, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$125,000 $125,000
Urban Growers Collective (UGC)
In support of the Green Era Urban Farm Campus, from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust.
$200,000 $200,000
TOTAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS $3,955,000 $3,955,000