Rainforest Alliance

About Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest Alliance Inc’s largest recent grant went to Cdp North America for forestry work, a signal that the foundation uses sizable, operationally oriented grants to support nature and land-use programs. Across the recent grants list, its funding repeatedly supports organizations working on forests, sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, certification, and supply-chain risk, often through management, logistics, or strategic support rather than direct project delivery. The foundation’s recent grantmaking also shows repeated support for groups that help coordinate and measure environmental work. Conservation Int Foundation received grants for management and landscape work, while EcoAgriculture International was funded for monitoring and evaluation and later for management support. Verra, Meridian Institute, and Technology Matters also appear among recent recipients, each tied to support functions that help environmental initiatives operate, track results, or coordinate across partners. This pattern fits Rainforest Alliance Inc’s stated aim of using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. The grants suggest an organization that backs the infrastructure around environmental programs as much as the field activities themselves.

What Rainforest Alliance Funds

Forests are central to the foundation’s giving. It awarded $947,745 to Cdp North America for forestry and $584,263 to Cdp-north America for forestry activity, two of the largest recent grants in the file. In landscape and natural-resource work, Conservation Int Foundation received $662,929 for management and $310,499 for landscape. Those grants point to support for coordination around broader land-use efforts rather than a single-site project. Sustainable agriculture appears in the foundation’s support for EcoAgriculture International, which received $478,518 for monitoring and evaluation and later $191,720 for management support. The repeat funding suggests an interest in strengthening the organization’s internal capacity alongside its program work. Climate and certification-related infrastructure also shows up through grants to Verra for logistics and to World Resource Institute for management support, indicating that the foundation funds the systems and intermediaries connected to environmental standards and implementation.

How Rainforest Alliance Gives