Grants Guidelines & Application

Thank you for your interest in The City Gardens Club of New York City Grants Program. Grant applications for 2024 are now closed. ​

City Gardens Club grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 are offered on a yearly basis for worthwhile projects that conform to the mission of the Grants Committee, which is to bring the beauty of the natural world into the lives of children and adults in all five boroughs of New York City and to sponsor educational programs that help citizens:

• develop appreciation and knowledge of nature
• learn gardening skills
• support the preservation and improvement of the city’s environment

Funds are distributed to a variety of nonprofit groups chosen by the committee from the year’s pool of grant applications.  The committee’s goals include:

• preserving and/or upgrading community gardens and public spaces, both old and new
• supporting viable startup projects that offer interactive learning opportunities
• educating community members in developing gardening skills and supplying them with plants and garden-related materials.

2025 Nonprofit Grants awarded

Association to Benefit Children, Manhattan
       Bunny’s Garden
Barrier Free Living, Bronx
       Tenant Garden Revitalization
Bronx House, Bronx
       Bronx House Legacy Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn
       Garden Apprentice Program (GAP)
Brooklyn Queens Land Trust/Q Garden, Brooklyn
       Garden Fence Revitalization
Brooklyn Queens Land Trust / Greene Garden, Brooklyn
       2025 Summer Internship Program
Catholic Guardian Services, Manhattan
       Pollinator Garden
CEC Stuyvesant Cove Inc (Solar One), Queens
       Educational Planters and Gardens
Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society of Bellerose, Inc., Queens
dba Queens County Farm Museum
       Teaching Gardens Maintenance
Concrete Safaris Inc., Manhattan
       Growing Youth & Gardens
Friends of Brower Park, Inc., Brooklyn
       Monarch Pollinator Expansion Planting
Friends of Cooper Park, Brooklyn
       Pollinator Garden Expansion 2025
Good Seed Growth Inc., Manhattan
       Military Veterans’ Intergenerational Garden Project.
Good Shepherd Services, Brooklyn
       Revitalize the Prince Joshua Community Center Garden
Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Brooklyn
       Gowanus Green Team
Council on the Environment, Inc, Manhattan
       Perimeter Garden Project
Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island
       Monarch Butterfly Habitat Garden
Jackson Heights Beautification Group, Queens
       Bringing Mother Nature Back Project
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Queens
       Jacob A. Riis Community Garden Restoration
Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, Staten Island
       Avis Serenity Garden
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, Bronx
       KHCC Community Garden
Lower East Side Ecology Center, Manhattan
       Horticulture Youth Training Program
NYC H2O, Queens
       Expansion of Ridgewood Reservoir’s Pollinator Gardens
Northeast Bronx YMCA, Bronx
       Northeast Bronx Y Community Garden
Olivet Presbyterian Church, Staten Island
       Olivet Heavenly Garden
Once Upon a Time, Inc., Queens
       Once Upon a Garden
Open Space Institute (for iDig2Learn), Manhattan
       Tending to NYC’s 1st Miyawaki Method Pocket Forest
Pibly Residential Programs Inc., Bronx
       Rosebud Perennial Garden
Progressives Educating New Yorkers, Inc.), Manhattan
       Growing Minds: Cultivating Wellness
Project Renewal, Manhattan
       The Healing Garden Revitalization
Rainbow Garden of Life and Health, Bronx
       Accessible garden bed and urban farm trellis project
Randall’s Island Park Alliance Urban Farm, Manhattan
       Urban Farm Summer
Red Hook Initiative, Brooklyn
       Columbia Street Farm
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Staten Island
       An Edible Flower Path
South Midwood Pollinators, Inc., Brooklyn
       Foster Avenue Greenway
The Bronx is Blooming, Bronx
       Pollinator Pathways
Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, Bronx
       Garden 2 Market Internship
Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn
       Garden Apprentice Program

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Community Roots Charter School, Brooklyn
       Three Stars Garden Expansion
Hawtree Creek Middle School, Queens
       School Garden Startup
IS  254, Bronx
       Seed Kits and gloves for Garden Club 
IS  126  Albert Shanker Community School, Queen
       Expansion of Hydroponics Lab
 IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368, Bronx
       School Garden Expansion
MS 54 Booker T. Washington, UWS
       Revitalization of 107th Street Tree Beds
PS 11 Purvis J. Behan Elementary School, Brooklyn
       Enhance Outdoor Classroom
P.S. 21 Philip H. Sheridan School, Bronx   
       Revitalization of School Garden
PS 32 Samuel Mills Sprole Elementary School, Brooklyn 
       School Garden Greenhouse
PS 48 The Joseph Rodman Drake School, S. Bronx  
       Outdoor Garden Classroom
PS 84 The Fund for P.S. 84, Inc., UWS
       School Garden Expansion
 PS 91 Q Richard Arkwright, Queens  
       New School Garden
PS 94X Kings College School, Bronx  
       New School Garden
PS 133 PTA,Brooklyn
       Educational Signage for Native Plants
PS 166 Q The Henry Gradstein School, Queens 
       Street Tree Planter Care
PS/IS 187 Hudson Cliffs, Bronx
       Outdoor Garden Classroom
PS 199 PTO, UWS
       Expand Raised Beds
PS 235, Brooklyn 
       Expansion of Butterfly Tagging Program
PS 270 The DeKalb School, Brooklyn
       Outdoor Classroom Expansion
Scholars Academy, Queens
       Expansion of School Garden
The James Baldwin School, Manhattan
       Rehab of Tree Beds and Hydroponic Kits