The New-Land Foundation is interested in funding tax-exempt organizations with programs in the following areas.

Protection of public lands, waters, and wildlife of the American West: Roughly 70 percent of the New-Land Foundation’s funding supports this cause. The foundation usually funds smaller groups who are working to designate and preserve wilderness and other protected areas, protect free-flowing rivers, defend wildlife habitat from fragmentation and industrial incursions, and ensure that the public has a voice in decisions affecting public lands. We are particularly interested in supporting projects that make a significant difference in public lands policy and management. Groups funded by the foundation use education, research, policy analysis, advocacy, and litigation in defense of rivers, wildlands, and wildlife.

The foundation’s geographic focus for this funding includes the western states of Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Due to limited resources, we do not generally fund projects in Washington, Oregon, or California.

Peace and arms control: New-Land funds groups working for international peace and security and nuclear disarmament. Our focus is to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, to bring greater transparency to the operation and safety of the national weapons laboratories, and to help develop a more stabilizing national security doctrine.

Population control and reproductive rights: The New-Land Foundation is interested in programs that address the many problems caused by global overpopulation including its impact on the environment. New-Land funds groups advocating for reproductive rights, access to reproductive healthcare, and population control.

The Foundation makes grants only to qualified tax-exempt organizations. No grants are made to individuals or to foreign charities that have not received funding from the Foundation in the past (such charities must continue to have a fiscal agent in the United States with tax-exempt status). The Foundation does not conduct personal interviews and does not publish an annual report.

In addition, the Foundation does not typically fund educational institutions or programs in the following areas: medicine, religion, or general social programs, including homelessness, poverty, domestic violence, drug addiction, and crime rehabilitation. The Foundation does not typically award grants for direct purchase of land or conservation easements, capital campaigns, endowment campaigns, building campaigns, community parks and recreation facilities, trail building, tree planting, recycling programs, toxic waste cleanup, wildlife rehabilitation centers, zoos, publications, films, or conferences. If your project falls within any of these areas, please do not submit a grant proposal.