• Is your organization based in and working in a low and moderate-income community?
• Is your organization engaged in community, neighborhood, and/or workplace organizing?
• Does your organization have limited access to corporate, government, or mainstream sources of funding?
• Does your organization have an annual budget under $400,000?

• Land Conservation in an Era of Climate Change
• Wildlife and Energy Development
• Strengthening the Conservation Field
• Environmental Stewardship in the Tri-State Area

• Social Investment Fund applications are due August 30.
• Mini-Grants for Education applications are due October 30.
• Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Fund applications are due March 15.
• Community Investment Fund applications for the Climax, CO area are due December 15.

• January 15 (Trustee review in early-April)
• April 1 (Trustee review in mid-June)
• July 1 (Trustee review in mid-September)
• October 1 (Trustee review in mid-December)

The Foundation supports grants for environmental protection in the western United States. In particular, the foundation is concerned with protection and preservation of the Rocky Mountain West’s remaining wild lands, rivers, and wilderness, as well as the wildlife that depends on these lands. The geographic area of interest includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.

• Environment
• Social
• Jewish/ Isreal.

• Improve habitat for Federal Trust Species, including migratory birds; threatened and endangered species; inter-jurisdictional fish; marine mammals; and, other declining species.
• Complement activities on National Wildlife Refuge System lands, or contribute to the resolution of problems on refuges that are caused by off-refuge practices.
• Address species and habitat priorities that have been identified through Service planning teams (with our partners), or in collaboration with state fish and wildlife agencies.
• Reduce habitat fragmentation or serve as buffers for other important Federal or state conservation lands.
• Result in self-sustaining systems that are not dependent on artificial structures.

• Restore, enhance or protect bird habitats;
• Benefit declining, threatened or endangered species;
• Generate measurable outcomes;
• Provide opportunites for ConocoPhilips employee participation and volunteerism.

• Lesser prairie chicken
• Gunnison sage-grouse
• American oystercatcher
• Waterfowl shorebirds

Funding priorities for this program include:

• Projects that directly address plant conservation priorities established by one or more of the federal agency partners
• On-the-ground work that involves local communities and citizen volunteers in restoration or protection of native plant communities
• Inclusion of a project component focused on pollinator conservation.

The Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Program seeks to develop nation-wide-community stewardship of local natural resources, preserving these resources for future generations and enhancing habitat for local wildlife. Projects seek to address water quality issues in priority watersheds, such as erosion due to unstable streambanks, pollution from stormwater runoff, and degraded shorelines caused by development. The program focuses on the stewardship and restoration of coastal, wetland and riparian ecosystems across the country. Its goal is to meet the conservation needs of important species and habitats, providing measurable and meaningful conservation and educational outcomes. The program requires the establishment and/or enhancement of diverse partnerships and an education/outreach component that will help shape and sustain behavior to achieve conservation goals.

Approximately $2,100,000 is available nationwide for projects meeting program priorities. There is one round of full proposals annually for this program. Awards range from $20,000* to $50,000 with an average size of $30,000 and 40-50 grants awarded per year. Grants should span one to two years in length with a start date in July 2015. Applications requesting more than $30,000 should propose projects longer than one year.

The Pulling Together Initiative is one of the only public-private partnerships to address invasive weeds nationally. Pulling Together Initiative grants are intended to help support the creation of local Cooperative Weed Management Area partnerships. Such partnerships bring together local landowners, citizens groups, and weed experts to develop and implement strategies for managing weed infestations on public lands, natural areas, and private working lands.

Funding priorities for this program include:

• Projects that focus on a particular well-defined Weed Management Area, such as a watershed, ecosystem, landscape, or county
• Projects supported by private landowners, state and local governments, and the regional/state offices of federal agencies
• Projects with a Steering Committee composed of local cooperators who are committed to working together to manage invasive and noxious plants across their jurisdictional boundaries 
• Long-term weed management plans which are based on an integrated pest management approach using the principles of ecosystem management
• Inclusion of a public outreach and education component, as appropriate.

The Nature of Learning Grant Program provides seed grants to assist schools and non-profit organizations in efforts to use National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms. Specifically, this program provides two different levels of grants: 1) up to $10,000 for start-up grants to assist with new programs and 2) up to $5,000 to provide continued support for existing programs.

Funding priorities for this program include:

• Using National Wildlife Refuges as outdoor classrooms to promote a greater understanding of local conservation issues
• Encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to learning that seeks to enhance student academic achievement
• Utilizing field experiences and student-led stewardship projects to connect classroom lessons to real-world issues
• Establishing partnerships among local schools, community groups, natural resource professionals and local businesses

• Improved control and management of urban storm or rain water
• Efficient and innovative use (or capture and reuse) of water in towns and cities
• Protection and restoration of urban waterways
• Improved urban water quality

•      The welfare of children, the incapacitated, homeless, families, and the elderly;
•      The preservation and improvement of the environment and natural resources;
•      The arts;
•      Education;
•      Healthcare;
•      Community improvements; and
•      Charitable outreach.

• Responsible Mining
• Coral Conservation
• Urban Parks
• Excellence in Design

• 2006, EcoFlight, Aspen, $30,000: In support of EcoFlight, which provides aerial tours to organizations in order to offer first-hand views of environmental issues in the West,

• 2011, Responsible Mining Project: Conservation Lands Foundation in Durango, CO $350,000:  To support of a communications effort to raise the profile of the National Conservation Lands to further protect environmentally and culturally significant places in the American West from irresponsible mining.

• allow our grant funding to be leveraged to provide increased philanthropic support, through vehicles such as matching grants or challenge grants that have already been secured from an external source.
• are endorsed by the local, regional, or national tourism office.
• demonstrate strong support from and involvement of the local community.

• Conservation Impact
• Strengthening TU Impact
• Public Education and Outreach
• Technical Merit

• Land acquisition efforts, including conservation easements.
• Advocacy campaigns that endorse a specific candidates or particular piece of legislation.

• Aspen Center for Enviro Studies
• Four Corners School for Outdoor Ed
• Pikes Peak Community Foundation

• Environment
• Environmental Education
• Causes important to the areas where they operate

• Mesa County Small Grant Fund ($200-$500)
• Western Colorado Health Fund
• Brownson Memorial Fund

The Wick Fund makes grants to protect and restore watersheds in the Western United States. In the simplest of terms, we are interested in keeping western rivers flowing with ample volumes of clean water. The Foundation makes only discretionary grants.

Discretionary grants are given to projects that:

• Provide a real opportunity to change western water policy on a local, state or national level; or
• Defend environmental laws critical for the protection of all western rivers; or
• Focus on a specific strategy for protection of a biologically important western watershed; or
• Research and analyze issues that affect western water. Research topics might include alternatives for managing water demand, mechanisms for transferring water to environmental and recreational use, commentary on federal and state actions that affect water policy. Grants may be used for arranging meetings. Preference will be given to projects that will be disseminated to reach advocates for the West’s rivers.

The Jay Kenney Fund functions like a small family foundation. It makes grants to a variety of organizations and acts as a funding vehicle for the Board’s personal interests.

In the past, the fund has supported a variety of local, national, and international organizations, including the Museum for Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum,Threepenny Review, Lab at Belmar, KCFR, KUVO, KVNF, and Lighthouse Writers Workshops. On the recreation and environmental side we have funded the Arkansas River Trust, Backcountry Snowsports Alliance, Grand Canyon Private Boaters, Montana Land Reliance,Colorado Whitewater, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, etc.

• The Arts. Children's theater, documentaries, videos, and community outreach.
• Conservation / Education. Children's theater, documentaries, videos, and community outreach.
• Conservation / Field Work. Animal field research, no-kill animal shelters, protection of natural resources and wildlife sanctuaries.
• Educational Camps. Environmental, health and special needs camps.
• Preventative Health. Animals for the physically challenged, children's health, global populations, women's health.

• groups with annual budgets over $350,000;
• individuals;
• scholarships;
• capital campaigns; or,
• endowments.