The EFOD Fund was created to disrupt the harmful cycle of disinvestment in communities of the global majority and offer a transformative alternative—one that prioritizes community-driven development and the expertise of those most impacted by these inequities. The Fund is intentionally designed to be flexible, culturally relevant, and rooted in the lived experiences of community practitioners. 

Growing Justice Fund is a multi-donor pooled fund co-designed by funders, farmers, advocates, food suppliers, purchasers, and community partners. The Fund invests in efforts to solidify the leadership, dignity, and power of Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant people to identify and drive solutions that expand the market for good food from locally-or regionally-owned, and environmentally- and economically-sustainable farms, ranches, fisheries, and food businesses. Its design reflects values-based philanthropy with an emphasis on participatory governance and trust in practitioners. 

The Soil Health Opportunities & Tools (SHOT) Fund is a joint initiative of the Rural Climate Partnership and the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation. The SHOT Fund puts a thumb on the scale to ensure public and private funding advances the most regenerative agriculture practices and fosters lasting agricultural change with rural communities.

The Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation is a collaborative philanthropic initiative founded to transform the U.S. agriculture system from a leading contributor to the climate crisis to a source of solutions.

The Fibers Fund, a Transformative 25 Fund, is a catalytic fund to support small U.S. natural fiber and textile producers and processors, with a specific focus on environmental equity. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and Fibershed established the Integrated Capital Fibers Fund to facilitate the investment of financial capital into a regenerative U.S. natural fibers and textile industry. The Fund is a direct response to the specific capital gaps identified in the SAFSF Fibers Roadmap Report and through the Fibershed Regional Fiber Manufacturing Initiative. The Fund’s implementation partners are Impact Charitable and Broadstreet Impact.

Liberating Investment in the Food and Farm Ecosystem (LIFE) is a resource mobilization vehicle founded by a collaborative of critical food and land justice organizations representing and directly accountable to frontline voices across the U.S. The focus is on advancing food and agricultural justice, organizing people, and building critical systems while also transforming philanthropic practices that threaten to hinder our progress towards driving real solutions in community.

The Marigold Fund makes grants in unincorporated communities to build the power of the unrepresented agricultural workers and land stewards living in the fringes of California democracy, the deeply rural communities that have been excluded from access to capital and political representation that would otherwise support their participation in core natural resources governance. The Marigold Fund’s movement for political and environmental regeneration is co-located in the Central Valley due to the region’s historic role as the backbone of California agriculture.

Radical Resource & Land Fund (RRLF) was introduced to provide holistic, place-based financial capital and ecosystem resources to BIPOC farmers based in urban, suburban, and rural Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, and eventually throughout the Midwest region. The strategic, farmer-centered investments will empower BIPOC farmers and cultivators to grow their operations, increase economic resilience, and create sustainable and community-driven food and agricultural systems.

The People’s Land Fund supports and resources the land and infrastructure needs of Black, Indigenous, and POC farmers and land stewards. It is part of a movement to advance racial and economic justice through just transition of resource governance to the people. Their work centers indigenous and ecological land stewardship, equitable regional food systems, and collective wealth.

The Persimmon Collective Fund is a practitioner-led mutual aid resource to support BIPOC Farmers and Land Stewards in their on and off farm organizing efforts, uplifting their work, nurturing cultural technology, and reweaving the collective agrarian spirit of past, present, and future generations. The Persimmon Collective Fund helps resource and support beginning and existing BIPOC farmers and land stewards through funding support, technical support, and by nurturing an ecosystem that uplifts and values an in-depth cultural lens to build relationships with individuals and collectives of farmers in NC, SC, GA, and VA.

The Southern Black Farmers Community-Led Fund (SBFCLF), a community-advised fund housed at RSF Social Finance (RSF), invests in the realization of self-determining and healthy Southern rural Black communities through their control of land, local and regional food systems, water, energy, cultural narratives, and legacy extension. The goal of the fund is to invest in self-determining rural Black communities. The strategy is anchored around farmers and reweaving of local and regional food systems that center Black ownership and access.