Grants Guidelines & Application

Thank you for your interest in The City Gardens Club of New York City Grants Program. Grant applications for 2026 are 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.

2026 Nonprofit Grants awarded

Barrier Free Living, Bronx
       Tenant Calming Garden Space
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn
       Garden Apprentice Program (GAP)
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn
       Ryder Library Garden Program
Brooklyn Rewilders, Brooklyn       
       Fences of Abundance
CEC Stuyvesant Cove Inc (Solar One), Queens
       Stuy Cove Park: Education Garden
Queens County Farm Museum
       Edible Teaching Garden 
Friends of Cooper Park, Brooklyn
       Cooper Park Pollinator Habitat Refresh
Friends of Devoe Park, Bronx      
       Native Plant Restoration
Friends of McGolrick Park, Brooklyn       
       McGolrick Rain Garden
Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Brooklyn
      New Garden at Gowanus Houses
Green Guerillas       
      Five Star Community Garden, Bronx
Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, Staten Island
       Avis Serenity Garden
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, Bronx
       KHCC Indoor Hydroponic Greenhouse
Lower East Side Ecology Center, Manhattan
       Horticulture Youth Training Program
Mercy Home for Children, Inc., Brooklyn
       Kay’s Garden, Brownsville
Motivational Monsters Inc., Brooklyn        
       The Wonder Garden & Play Space
NYC H2O, Queens
       Ridgewood Reservoir’s Pollinator Gardens
Open Space Institute (for iDig2Learn), Roosevelt Island
       Rejuvenation of Coler Hospital’s Garden
Owl’s Head Park Volunteers, Brooklyn
       Biodiversifying Owl’s Head Park
Pibly Residential Programs Inc., Bronx
       Perennial Garden @ Men’s Recovery Center
Project Renewal, Manhattan
       Six Additional Raised Beds
Queens Botanical Garden, Queens         
       QBG Children’s Garden
Randall’s Island Park Alliance Urban Farm, Manhattan
       Urban Farm Summer Interns/Supplies
Red Hook Initiative, Brooklyn
       Columbia Street Farm
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Queens
       RISE Native Plant Nursery
Settlement Housing Fund, Manhattan
      Harlem River Houses Garden
Sisters With Purpose Inc., Brooklyn        
      New Garden at Fulton Street
The Shield Institute, Queens
      New Garden Bayside
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Staten Island
       New Tropical Garden
South Midwood Pollinators, Inc., Brooklyn
       New Tree Guards/Plants on Foster Avenue
The Opportunity Hub, Brooklyn
       (Spring Creek Recreational Fund)
       Spring Creek Towers Farm
The Battery Conservancy, Manhattan  
       Battery Park Urban Farm    
The Bronx is Blooming, Bronx
       Highbridge Park Pollinator Pathway
Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, Bronx
       Garden 2 Market Internship
Vision Urbana Inc., Manhattan      
       Garden Arch on E. 4th Street

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Achievement First Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn 
       New School Rooftop Garden
AECI 2: NYC Charter High School, Bronx
       AECI 2 School Garden
Booker T. Washington Preschool, Harlem
       School Garden Expansion        
Community Roots Charter School, Brooklyn
       Garden Club Storage Locker
John Adams High School, Queens
       Garden Expansion
P811X The Academy for Career and Living Skills, Bronx
       Pollinator Garden
PS 30X Wilton, Bronx
       Roof Garden & Compost
PS 32 Samuel Sprole Elementary School, Brooklyn
       Sensory Greenhouse Garden
PS 48 The Joseph Rodman Drake School, Bronx
       Teaching/Harvesting Program
PS 84 The Fund for P.S. 84, Inc., Manhattan
       New Pollinator Meadow
PS 133 PTA, Brooklyn
       Renewal of Raised Beds
PS/IS 217 Roosevelt Island, Manhattan        
       New School Garden
PS 276 The Louis Marshall School, Brooklyn           
       New Pollinator Garden
PS 333 Manhattan School for Children, Manhattan
       Revitalization of Garden Beds
The James Baldwin School, Manhattan
       18th Street Tree Beds
The Queens College School for STEM, Queens   
       Mini-garden Restoration