Foundation support
Health Care Without Harm
Evaluation of ProCureWorks program - $40,000
The Nature Conservancy
California sustainable transportation planning - $40,250
UNFI Foundation
Healthy soils pilot training workshop for organic farmers - $10,000
Industry support
Button & Turkovich
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – wheat combine and other various equipment use (since late 1990s)
California Tomato Research Institute
Optimizing irrigation and fertility in organic processing tomato farming systems - $35,288
CoBank
Gift to support young, small, beginning and underserved farmers - $18,585
Capitalizing on new values-based marketing channels: Using market tours to link small, beginning and immigrant producers with wholesale buyers - $60,000
Foster Farms
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – compost (since 1994)
Jain Equipment
In-kind donation of irrigation supplies to Russell Ranch and Student Farm
Lopez Welding Services
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – repair services and various equipment use (since 2002)
Meek & Sons
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – corn combine and other various equipment use (since late 1990s)
Morning Star Co.
In-kind donation to Russell Ranch – tractor use (since 2017) and tomato harvester use (since 2009)
Government funding
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Block Grants
Northern California CRAFT: supporting beginning specialty crop farmers in 5 northern California counties - $145,933
Identifying value-added practices and market potential for moringa - $190,422
Supporting food hubs to strengthen specialty crop market channels in northern California - $81,201
Subaward from Calaveras Unified School District for evaluation of garden enhanced nutrition education - $31,732
California Department of Water Resources
Riparian summit - $75,000
California Strategic Growth Council
Advancing the use of regional conservation assessments - $30,560
NASA/California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Remote sensing of Russell Ranch crops - $8,000
Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Growing California agritourism communities - $73,011
University grant funding
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Division, Competitive Grants Program
Bridging research and policy: An Assessment of strategic relationships between ANR, food policy councils, and research institutions - $33,765
University of California, Office of the President, Global Food Initiative
Food justice initiative project - $58,000
Experiential learning project - $78,333
Individual gifts
Donald and Diane Bransford
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI – $5,000
Valerie Wing and Bart J. Broadman
Adopt an Acre–Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $1,000
Grimmway Farms
Adopt an Acre–Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $1,000
Carl Johnson
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Endowment to provide support in perpetuity for ASI – $1,000
Scott and Ulla Park/Park Farming
Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Support - $7,000
Val DeWayne Quinn (with matching support from Apple, Inc.)
Adopt an Acre–Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $3,000
Richard and Evelyne Rominger
Endowment in support of the Eric Bradford and Charlie Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Award - $5,000
Howard and Nancy Shapiro
Adopt an Acre–Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility Endowment - $1,000
Frank and Marcia Stonebarger
Gift to support young, small, beginning and underserved farmers - $3,000
Thomas P. Tomich
Gift to the Student Farm in honor of Mark Van Horn - $1,000
Harold L. Wyman Foundation, Inc.
Gift to the Student Farm - $3,000
Friends of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (contributions of less than $1,000 to the general support of ASI)
Arthur T. Bliss
Peggy J. Cavaghan
Andrew and Annemarie Hargadon
Melissa and Robert Haworth
Sam J. Maglio, Jr.
Patrick Nolan
Charles and Marguerite Smukler, M.P.H.
Sheryl A. Wagner
Friends of the Student Farm (contributions of less than $1,000 to the general support of the Student Farm)
Christine Schmidt and Bob Brewer
Nick Dolce
Dani Lee
Megan N. Marshall, Ph.D.
Ms. Lauren M. McNees
Carl W. Seymour
Friends of Russell Ranch (contributions of less than $1,000 to the general support of Russell Ranch)
Doug Solomon Consulting LLC
Friends of the Bradford-Rominger Award (contributions of less than $1,0000)
Jeanne Mc Cormack and Albert G. Medvitz
Carolyn Carpenter Gossard and David W. Gossard