Financial Transparency

The Healthy Soil Collaborative is headquartered in Vermont, and can accept donations through our fiscal sponsor Ecologistics, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. 

This page is where we will post our reports about our progress and what we did with donated funds over the course of each year.

Neither we nor Ecologistics will ever sell your information. You can donate here if you would like to support our research mission.

Funders

Private Support

Private support is a crucial part of what makes the Healthy Soil Collaborative function. Donations from generous private donors helped make the entire project come into existence. This type of funding also helps us to be more flexible, allowing us to respond nimbly to new challenges, ideas, and research directions in a way that public grants inherently do not allow for.

  • Planet Heritage Foundation (2022)

    The Planet Heritage Foundation contributed early seed funding to help the Healthy Soil Collaborative take root. They are a private foundation with a mission to protect the environment and give voice to the voiceless. Their primary focus is on marine conservation and climate change, and their work has included collaborations with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, WildAid, and the World Wildlife Fund. Planet Heritage also helped to create the Ocean’s 5 funder’s collaborative to help conserve global oceans.

  • We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the individual donors who helped to make our project and the Healthy Soil Collaborative happen. It is no overstatement to say that backyard gardeners, garden clubs, landowners, and concerned hikers helped make this entire project happen through their generosity and support. You inspire us to continue striving. Thank you.

Public Support

The Healthy Soil Collaborative is a nascent organization. We are actively seeking funding from all possible sources, private and public. Public funding achieved by members of the Healthy Soil Collaborative will be listed here as it is awarded. In the meantime, some of our research is supported by existing grants earned by our researchers from national and state agencies including the:

  • Minnesota Department of Agriculture

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

  • New York State Department of Transportation

  • Northeastern States Research Cooperative

  • Research Nova Scotia

  • University of Minnesota, Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center

  • Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets