Federal grants to Growing Gardens
Growing Gardens in Portland, Oregon received $1.3 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 7 awards. Its largest program was Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program, with $464,818. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $240,000.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$1.3 million
- Awards7
- Awarded in FY 2025$240,000
- Largest award$349,124
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 3 | $437,070 |
| FY 2022 | 1 | $100,000 |
| FY 2023 | 2 | $499,124 |
| FY 2024 | 0 | $0 |
| FY 2025 | 1 | $240,000 |
Programs that fund Growing Gardens
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program | 2 | $464,818 |
| Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP) | 2 | $455,250 |
| Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom | 1 | $150,000 |
| Soil and Water Conservation | 1 | $106,126 |
| Environmental Education Grants Program | 1 | $100,000 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Agriculture | 6 | $1.2 million |
| Environmental Protection Agency | 1 | $100,000 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The primary goal or the goals of this project to grow the starts we need for our programming and to integrate greenhouse education into our network of community-led urban agriculture. By building urban agricultural skills and knowledge at the community level, we intend to support food sovereignty an | Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP) | September 21, 2023 | $349,124 |
| Our project seeks to provide agricultural education and increased nutrition to elementary students and their families across four school districts through agricultural lessons in school gardens, cafeteria taste tests of school garden produce, take-home cooking kits sourced with produce from partners | Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program | September 3, 2025 | $240,000 |
| This purpose of "growing food; cultivating leaders" project to 1) connect over 4000 students and their families with food and agriculture through hands-on education 2) develop teen leaders in food systems and 3) contribute to a regional increase in sustainable school garden programs. To achieve the | Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program | August 24, 2021 | $224,818 |
| **awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** garden to farm: partnership for agricultural education and curriculum buildingwe live in an everchanging world with a host of challen | Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom | September 7, 2023 | $150,000 |
| This planning project will identify opportunities to meet communityneeds through building one or more greenhouses across the portland metroarea, targeting census tracks that have a high proportion of low-incomeand communities of color | Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP) | September 28, 2021 | $106,126 |
| This planning project will identify opportunities to meet communityneeds through building one or more greenhouses across the portland metroarea, targeting census tracks that have a high proportion of low-incomeand communities of color | Soil and Water Conservation | September 28, 2021 | $106,126 |
| Description: this project provides funding to growing gardens to implement its project, which will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques, that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage behavior that will benefit the environme | Environmental Education Grants Program | August 2, 2022 | $100,000 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Growing Gardens get?
$1.3 million in 7 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Growing Gardens the most?
The Department of Agriculture, with $1.2 million in 6 awards. The Environmental Protection Agency follow.
What is Growing Gardens's largest federal grant?
$349,124 under Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP), with its first action in the period on September 21, 2023. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Growing Gardens?
Its largest are Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program, Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Grants Program (UAIP) and Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom.
Other grant recipients in Portland
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon
- Oregon Department of Housing & Community Services
- Mercy Corps
- Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Port of Portland
- Portland State University
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