Cedar Tree Foundation

Established in the mid-1990s, the Cedar Tree Foundation is a family foundation focused on grantmaking that invests in the capacity and agency for people and communities to actualize social change. Since its founding, it has focused its programming and grantmaking on environmental issues including sustainable agriculture, environmental health, and environmental education, with periodic funding in civic engagement. Current grantmaking prioritizes investments in Children’s Environmental Health and in Regenerative Grazing. Cedar Tree has also long supported civic engagement through its giving portfolio, reflecting the Board's dedication to and enthusiasm for civic engagement work, but the Foundation does not have civic engagement staff capacity or expertise. It has focused its grantmaking in this area on increasing voter turnout of women, youth, and people of color through multi-year dockets that are generally between $1 million to $3 million for multi-year grants. In 2019, they awarded a docket of two-year grants with the help of a consultant, which included two direct grants to current Cedar Tree grantees, as well as a larger grant to a regranting organization to support 9 organizations for a total amount of $1.2 million.