WOODARD & CURRAN FOUNDATION

Woodard & Curran Foundation engages the passion of the Woodard & Curran community to support nonprofit organizations that protect our water and environment.
— Woodard & Curran Foundation Mission

Total grant money committed since our founding: $1.7M+


CURRENT FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS

2025 Impact Grant ($75,000)

Drylands Agroecology Research (Longmont, CO)

Dryland Silvopasture at Land Partner Sites: A Model for Rehydrating the Arid West Sites

DAR’s Silvopasture project will expand and build on the work performed on the Yellow Barn project, which was awarded a $100,000 WCF Impact Grant in 2022.


2025 Impact Grant ($75,000)

Tó Nizhóní Ání (Black Mesa, AZ)

Watershed Restoration in the Black Mesa (Dził Yíjiin) Region of Navajo Nation, Arizona

TNA’s Black Mesa (Dził Yíjiin) project builds upon work previously supported by a $40,000 WCF Project Grant in 2024, and begins the implementation of learned lessons into the headwaters of the Oraibi Wash watershed in the Black Mesa (Kits’iilí) Chapter, Navajo Nation.


Giving While Living Grant Recipients - 2025

$10K grants awarded to 10 environmental nonprofits (total of $100K)

We are proud to fund the organizations below with $10,000 grants (each) in honor of our largest group of donors - the employees of Woodard & Curran, Inc., who nominated and selected the ten organizations below that are receiving Giving While Living Grants. Thank you to all the donors whose generosity makes it possible for us to fulfill our mission to support organizations that protect our water and environment.

Banner images: a few of the projects we have funded through our Impact and Giving While Living grants: Literacy for Environmental Justice, PowerCorps/Camden, Friends of Casco Bay, Change is Simple, Sacramento Area Creeks Council, Techbridge Girls, University of Rhode Island.