Tilth Alliance

About Tilth Alliance

Tilth Alliance’s grantmaking is built around Washington farm resilience, with recent funding reaching farm businesses across the state and a 2025 flagship award of $29,265 to Gustavsen & Co LLC in Ridgefield. The foundation uses project-based grants and direct service to support farmers, small-scale family farms, and rural farming communities through agriculture-focused assistance. Its annual grants total $996,823, and the organization’s stated work centers on building a sustainable, healthy, and equitable food future in community with Washington farmers, gardeners, and eaters. The recent grant record shows repeated support for farm assistance rather than one-off, highly varied giving. Many awards sit at the $10,000 level, including grants to Ola Aina Farms in Colville, Rabbit Fields Farm in Mount Vernon, and North Star Farm on Lopez Island. That pattern aligns with the foundation’s focus areas in organic agriculture, regenerative agriculture, soil health, water conservation, food access and nutrition, and community gardening. Tilth Alliance also operates scholarship and training programs tied to farmer education, youth learning, and compost education, showing a mix of business support and public education within its local Washington scope.

What Tilth Alliance Funds

A major thread in Tilth Alliance’s grantmaking is farm assistance. The largest recent award in the data went to Gustavsen & Co LLC in Ridgefield for farm assistance, and the recent grants list includes other farm businesses such as Adam's Mushrooms in Vaughn and Center Valley Orchards in Chimacum. These grants point to practical support for Washington growers rather than broad regional philanthropy. The foundation also funds education and access programs. Tilth Conference Scholarships help farmers, Extension agents, conservation district employees, and food system educators attend the annual Tilth Conference + Farm & Food Symposium. For youth, the Summer Camp Scholarships program reduces financial barriers for hands-on garden, farm, and wetland-based learning in King County. Its program menu extends into soil and compost education through the Master Composter / Soil Builder training, and into emergency support through Washington State Flood Relief Grants for farm businesses in disaster-declared counties.

How Tilth Alliance Gives