Keepers of the Earth Fund

Nontraditional Participatory grantmaking

An Indigenous-led fund whose awards are approved by an internal committee made up mainly of members of different Indigenous Peoples, supporting community-designed projects in land rights, language revitalization, climate action, and traditional knowledge.

Indicative award

up to $12k (total award)Page states awards of up to $12,000 USD per project. No published minimum.

Timing

Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Hybrid cycle described on the page: one year of public call followed by two years of applications by invitation, often with region-specific calls. No deadline is published on this page; contact koef@cs.org for the current cycle.

Who can apply

Community organisation, Practitioner

Eligibility

Grants go to traditional Indigenous communities, collectives, organizations, and governments, including grassroots groups with no state registration. Projects must be designed and managed by Indigenous members of the community served, so an outside university cannot be the applicant; the researcher's route is as a partner or documentarian to a grantee.

SSWR clusters

Topics

land rights · language revitalization · climate action · traditional knowledge · indigenous women and youth leadership

Apply at

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/programs/advocacy/koef

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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Keepers of the Earth Fund

Also on the American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster) shelf