Sweet Water Trust has been working with partners in the Northern Appalachian region to protect wilderness for over fifteen years. We are a grant-making foundation whose funding mission is to support conservation that safeguards wild lands and waters, native wild flora and fauna, and living soils. Sweet Water Trust also owns land and holds conservation easements in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. By so doing, we learn from experience the challenges that our land trust partners face in managing land and monitoring easements.
Since 1992, Sweet Water Trust has made over 600 grants to protect land as wild and to encourage support of wilderness values. In recent years, we have focused on large, landscape-scale conservation projects, often supported with major, multi-year grants. While we still expect to make a few smaller grants each year, all projects must meet the criteria set out in our grant guidelines. One particularly important requirement is that the land's wilderness qualities be protected by a conservation easement or equivalent permanent legal instrument.
We welcome you to this web site and encourage those who may be seeking grants to read on prior to submitting a funding request. We encourage all readers to learn about the lands that Sweet Water protects on the SWT Lands page and to read the rationale for protecting wild forests under Eastern Forest Reserves. Maps, statistics and analysis of land protected as wilderness can be found under Maps & Analysis.
| Walker Buckner Eve Endicott Nancy Smith Trustee Executive Director Associate Director Kathleen Smith Christopher Wilson George Bakajza John Lightbody |
The financial information contained in Sweet Water Trust's tax return shows endowment income only. For a complete listing of grant making activity, please refer to our Recent Grants page, available on this website. To view our tax return, please visit www.guidestar.org.
