ISEAL ALLIANCE — grant history
Latest income
£7.7m
Grants listed (FY2025)
48
Listed grants total
£2.0m
Accounts grants total
£2.0m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: ISEAL does not accept unsolicited applications. The organization works with donors to align on projects and welcomes open discussions with potential partners to find opportunities for collaboration. Interested parties should contact the Partnerships Senior Manager at [email protected].
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Scotland
- China
- Northern Ireland
- United States
- Canada
- Indonesia
- Cameroon
- Belgium
- Costa Rica
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | SustainCert SA | — | £75k |
| new | Preferred by Nature | — | £75k |
| new | CottonConnect Ltd | — | £75k |
| new | FSC Investments & Partnerships | — | £75k |
| new | Accounting for Nature Limited | — | £70k |
| new | Sustainable Agriculture Network | — | £50k |
| new | Union for Ethical Biotrade | — | £37k |
| new | RAINFOREST ALLIANCE LTD | — | £37k |
| up | Bonsucro | £45k | £90k |
| up | AQUACULTURE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL | £53k | £90k |
| up | Assurance Services International | £36k | £75k |
| up | Sustainable Rice Platform | £45k | £72k |
| up | Forest Stewardship Council | £25k | £48k |
| up | Better Cotton | £17k | £48k |
| down | Fairtrade International | £75k | £31k |
| not listed | Aluminium Stewardship Council | £60k | — |
| not listed | Sustainable Agricultural Network | £33k | — |
| not listed | Responsible Jewellery Council | £19k | — |
| not listed | CNG-Climate Neutral | £9k | — |
| not listed | Copper Mark | £9k | — |
| not listed | Marin Trust | £4k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonsucro | FY2025 | £90k | Impulsa 2: Incentives and rewards platform for continuous improvement of smallholder sugarcane farmers |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2025 | £90k | Voices in Verification: Empowering communities and building engagement in aquaculture certification |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials | FY2025 | £77k | Book-and-claim registry eco-system development |
| SustainCert SA | FY2025 | £75k | A Climate-Focused Data Integrity Framework |
| Preferred by Nature | FY2025 | £75k | Digital Tools Platform: Strengthening Data Foundations and Interoperability in Sustainability Systems |
| CottonConnect Ltd | FY2025 | £75k | Regenerative Incentives System for Smallholders |
| FSC Investments & Partnerships | FY2025 | £75k | Frameworks for recognition: Unlocking certified flows across sustainability systems |
| Assurance Services International | FY2025 | £75k | Prescriptive Assurance |
| Sustainable Rice Platform | FY2025 | £72k | Low- Carbone Module |
| Accounting for Nature Limited | FY2025 | £70k | Nature data that can meet the needs of VSS, Governments and Indigenous Peoples |
| Sustainable Agriculture Network | FY2025 | £50k | Community-led verification mechanisms for enhanced transparency, credibility and efficiency of voluntary sustainability claims for smallholder producer groups |
| Forest Stewardship Council | FY2025 | £48k | Development of Traceability Systems Equipped for the Transfer of ClimateRelated Data Across Complex Supply Chains |
| Better Cotton | FY2025 | £48k | Enhancing Accuracy and Integrity of First Mile Traceability Data through Digitalisation and Process Innovation |
| Collectively Building Pathways to Living Income through Common Tools and Global Exchange | FY2025 | £45k | Collectively Building Pathways to Living Income through Common Tools and Global Exchange |
| Bonsucro | FY2025 | £45k | Empower & Exchange: Empowering producers of sugarcane products through data access and providing insights on responsible, efficient data exchange to meet the needs of the supply chain |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2025 | £44k | Voices in Verification: Empowering communities and building engagement in aquaculture certification |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2025 | £43k | More Power to the People: Changing power dynamics in certification systems through community-based environmental monitoring |
| 4C Services | FY2025 | £42k | Fostering Social Auditing: Enhancing Issue Detection and Risk Identification through Responsive and Context-Specific Approaches |
| Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance | FY2025 | £42k | FPIC and Audit Accountability: improving assessment processes to reflect Indigenous Peoples’ rights in transitions minerals supply chains |
| Union of Ethical Bio Trade | FY2025 | £42k | Botanical premiums for local livelihoods |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2025 | £40k | Geospatial Information Technology for Outcome Verification (GIT4OV) paving the way to improve smallholder livelihoods |
| Sustainable Fibre Alliance | FY2025 | £40k | Supporting Traditional Ecological Practices for Pastoralist Engagement (STEPPE) |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil | FY2025 | £39k | Addressing constraints to continued smallholder participation in EUDR supply chains (traceability and compliance) |
| Responsible Steel | FY2025 | £38k | Exploration of the Role of Standards in Steel and Mining in driving a Just Transition |
| Goodweave | FY2025 | £37k | Enable and strengthen remediation solutions to child labour |
| Sustainable Rice Platform | FY2025 | £37k | Development and Testing of a Low-Carbon Assurance Module for the SRP Assurance Scheme |
| Union for Ethical Biotrade | FY2025 | £37k | Shifting the balance: supplier-led human rights risk insights in botanical sourcing |
| Rainforest Alliance | FY2025 | £37k | Embedding worker-led approaches to human rights due diligence into into agricultural sustainability systems |
| Bonsucro | FY2025 | £36k | Development of tools and practices to drive climate action |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2025 | £35k | ESG compliance and financing within the seafood sector |
| Round Table on Responsible Soy | FY2025 | £35k | Regenerative Incentives System |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | FY2025 | £35k | Worker Engagement in Seafood: identification, assessment and recommendations for improvements to worker engagement mechanisms in fishing, aquaculture and seafood processing |
| Sustainable Biomass Programme | FY2025 | £35k | Joining efforts in a Risk Information Alliance |
| Global Infrastructure Basel | FY2025 | £34k | DD multilevel reporting |
| The Copper Mark | FY2025 | £33k | Sectoral decarbonisation approach for copper |
| Union of Ethical Biotrade | FY2025 | £32k | Adapting data platforms to feed company due diligence reporting needs and company-owned platforms |
| Sustainable Fibre Alliance | FY2025 | £32k | Information flows to empower pastoral households: small-scale cashmere production in Mongolia |
| Fairtrade International | FY2025 | £31k | Sustainable Traceability for Empowered Producers (STEP): Harmonizing traceability standards to enhance producer resilience and transparency in global supply chains |
| Aluminium Stewardship Initiative | FY2025 | £27k | IPLC and Bauxite Mine Rehabilitation Project |
| Fairtrade International | FY2025 | £26k | Facilitating rightsholder dialogue in HREDD |
| Responsible Jewelery Council | FY2025 | £20k | GHG baseline assessment and gap analysis |
| Global Coffee Platform | FY2025 | £19k | Data for Impact: Strengthening GCP’s Foundations for Credible Claims and Decision-Making |
| Bonsucro | FY2025 | £19k | Credible sustainability impact claims: framework for chain of custody and assurance requirements |
| Textile Exchange | FY2025 | £18k | Using spatial data to inform nature strategies |
| Global Standard gGmbH | FY2025 | £17k | Developing a Continuous Learning Process for GOTS Auditors on Due Diligence Requirements |
| Global Sustainable Tourism Council | FY2025 | £9k | Guideline on remote audits: Identifying challenges, gaps, and best practices for effective stakeholder engagement |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2025 | £9k | Improving wage transparency in cotton: Farm-level wage sampling tool |
| Preferred by Nature | FY2025 | £9k | Enabling better application of risk-based approaches |
| Sustainable Food lab | FY2025 | amount not stated | Other grants |
| Fairtrade International | FY2024 | £75k | Piloting Data Ownership with Cocoa Cooperatives in Ghana |
| Union of Ethical Bio Trade | FY2024 | £70k | Botanicals premiums for local livelihoods |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials | FY2024 | £70k | Impact incentive market signal research |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2024 | £66k | Geospatial Information Technology for Outcome Verification (GIT4OV) paving the way to improve smallholder livelihoods |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | FY2024 | £65k | Worker Engagement in Seafood: identification, assessment and recommendations for improvements to worker engagement mechanisms in fishing, aquaculture and seafood processing |
| Aluminium Stewardship Council | FY2024 | £60k | CARE: Collective Action for Recycling and Empowerment |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2024 | £59k | ReACT – Resilience through Collective Action, Sustainable Healthcare Access for Cotton Smallholder Farmers |
| Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance | FY2024 | £54k | FPIC and Audit Accountability: improving assessment processes to reflect Indigenous Peoples’ rights in transitions minerals supply chains |
| 4C Services | FY2024 | £53k | Fostering Social Auditing: Enhancing Issue Detection and Risk Identification through Responsive and Context-Specific Approaches |
| Sustainable Fibre Alliance | FY2024 | £53k | Information flows to empower pastoral households: small-scale cashmere production in Mongolia |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2024 | £53k | More Power to the People: Changing power dynamics in certification systems through community-based environmental monitoring |
| Fairtrade International | FY2024 | £52k | Sustainable Traceability for Empowered Producers (STEP): Harmonizing traceability standards to enhance producer resilience and transparency in global supply chains |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials | FY2024 | £50k | Book-and-claim registry eco-system development |
| GoodWeave | FY2024 | £49k | Enable and strengthen remediation solutions to child labour |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil | FY2024 | £48k | Addressing constraints to continued smallholder participation in EUDR supply chains (traceability and compliance) |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2024 | £46k | ESG compliance and financing within the seafood sector |
| Collectively Building Pathways to Living Income through Common Tools and Global Exchange | FY2024 | £46k | Collectively Building Pathways to Living Income through Common Tools and Global Exchange |
| Sustainable Rice Platform | FY2024 | £45k | Low- Carbone Module |
| Bonsucro | FY2024 | £45k | Development of tools and practices to drive climate action |
| Round Table on Responsible Soy | FY2024 | £43k | Regenerative Incentives System |
| Union of Ethical Biotrade | FY2024 | £42k | Adapting data platforms to feed company due diligence reporting needs and company-owned platforms |
| The Copper Mark | FY2024 | £41k | Sectoral decarbonisation approach for copper |
| Assurance Services International | FY2024 | £36k | Smart assurance: From global monitoring to local action - Validating compliance through combining satellite-based monitoring and AI-driven insight generation with response mechanisms |
| Responsible Steel | FY2024 | £36k | Exploring the role of standards in driving a responsible transition in steel and mining |
| Goodweave | FY2024 | £36k | Detecting forced labour in supply chains: effective assessment methodologies |
| Aluminium Stewardship Initiative | FY2024 | £35k | IPLC and Bauxite Mine Rehabilitation Project |
| Sustainable Agricultural Network | FY2024 | £33k | Expansion of Blueprint sustainability assessment to build a common territorial agenda |
| Forest Stewardship Council | FY2024 | £25k | Creating partnerships for research and test impact verification framework in Indigenous and traditional communities |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2024 | £25k | Improving wage transparency in cotton: Farm-level wage sampling tool |
| Responsible Jewellery Council | FY2024 | £19k | GHG baseline assessment and gap analysis |
| Better Cotton | FY2024 | £17k | Promoting robust GHG accounting, reporting, claims and incentives: approaches for agricultural commodity supply chains |
| CNG-Climate Neutral | FY2024 | £9k | Strengthening knowledge on insetting practices |
| Union of Ethical Biotrade | FY2024 | £9k | DoSomething: Enhancing access to remedy for human rights violations in the botanicals sector |
| Copper Mark | FY2024 | £9k | Artisanal and small-scale copper mining in Peru |
| Marin Trust | FY2024 | £4k | Comprehensive evaluation of environmental impacts and compliance barriers in the MarinTrust programme: a focus on Improver Programme factories |
| Sustainable Food lab | FY2024 | amount not stated | Other grants |
| Fairtrade International | FY2023 | £70k | Facilitating rightsholder dialogue in human rights and environmental due diligence |
| Better Cotton | FY2023 | £60k | Promoting robust GHG accounting, reporting, claims and incentives: approaches for agricultural commodity supply chains |
| Forest Stewardship Council | FY2023 | £52k | Development of traceability systems equipped for the transfer of climaterelated data across complex supply chains |
| Global Infrastructure Basel | FY2023 | £52k | Due diligence multilevel reporting |
| Rainforest Alliance | FY2023 | £52k | Embedding worker-led approaches to human rights due diligence into agricultural sustainability systems |
| Sustinable Biomass Programme | FY2023 | £52k | Joining efforts in a Risk Information Alliance |
| Goodweave | FY2023 | £40k | Detecting forced labour in supply chains: effective assessment methodologies |
| Assurance Services International | FY2023 | £40k | Smart assurance: From global monitoring to local action Validating compliance through combining satellite-based monitoring and AI-driven insight generation with response mechanisms and UAV-supported ground truth |
| Sustainable Agricultural Network | FY2023 | £36k | Expansion of Blueprint sustainability assessment to build a common territorial agenda |
| Union of Ethical Biotrade | FY2023 | £30k | DoSomething: Enhancing access to remedy for human rights violations in the botanicals sector |
| Copper Mark | FY2023 | £10k | Artisanal and small-scale copper mining in Peru |
| Climate Neutral | FY2023 | £10k | Strengthening knowledge on insetting practices |
| Marin Trust | FY2023 | £5k | Comprehensive evaluation of environmental impacts and compliance barriers in the MarinTrust programme: a focus on Improver Programme factories |
| Steel Stewardship Council | FY2022 | £154k | Mining, Minerals and Metals (M3) Standards Partnership: Alignment and collective action to drive improvement |
| Rainforest Alliance | FY2022 | £147k | An Accountability Framework to Mainstream Responsible Production and Trade for Agriculture and Forestry |
| Bonsucro | FY2022 | £143k | Enabling access to preferential finance terms as an incentive for improving sustainability performance in the agricultural sector |
| Bonsucro | FY2022 | £120k | Assessing and designing outcome-based standards: a landscape approach |
| Alliance for Water Stewardship | FY2022 | £115k | Boosting sustainability practice and performance at the landscape level through good water stewardship |
| Sustainable Agriculture Network | FY2022 | £105k | Development of an evaluation framework and pilot phase in a banana and palm growing municipality |
| Max Havelaar | FY2022 | £60k | Landscape Assurance Framework for Social Indicators |
| Aquaculture Stewardship Council | FY2022 | £60k | Integration of Seafood Certification and Jurisdictional Assurance Models |
| Gold Standard Foundation | FY2022 | £53k | A shared value approach to climate impact at landscape scale |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2022 | £50k | Bridging the Gap in Measuring Real-Time Sustainability Performance |
| Textile Exchange | FY2022 | £30k | Impact Alliance – Scoping Phase |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2022 | £29k | Adaptation to Landscape Approach (ATLA) |
| Forest Stewardship Council | FY2022 | £25k | Creating an Information and Data Standard |
| Evidensia | FY2022 | £25k | UNFSS collaboration on the VSS research step-up programme |
| Bonsucro | FY2022 | £25k | Local implementation of grievance mechanisms for VSSs’ members in alignment with UNGP and OECD |
| Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation | FY2022 | £25k | Sustainability Infrastructure Intelligence Tool |
| GoodWeave International | FY2022 | £23k | Forced and Bonded Labour Rapid Assessment Tool |
| Textile Exchange | FY2022 | £21k | Delta Pilot |
| GEO Foundation | FY2022 | £20k | Sustainability Reporting for Sport |
| Swiss Fair Trade | FY2022 | £18k | Digital conference: Strengthening Fair Trade in a COVID19 - Build Back Fairer Sustainability context |
| Fairtrade Foundation | FY2022 | £17k | Delta Pilot |
| Rainforest Alliance | FY2022 | £15k | Tech4Communities: Hybrid Community-Based Monitoring System (HCMS) |
| Better Cotton Initiative | FY2022 | £11k | Piloting remote survey technology for farmers and workers in Pakistan |
| Fair Trade USA | FY2022 | £11k | Factory Hybrid Audit Pilot |
| Linking Environment and Farming | FY2022 | £11k | Development of a transition process towards a LEAF Marque hybrid assurance model informed by risk-based data |
| Rainforest Alliance | FY2022 | £10k | Use of risk maps for child and forced labour in risk-based assurance processes |
| Responsible Jewellery Council | FY2022 | £9k | Hybrid and remote audits |
| Assurance Services International | FY2022 | £8k | Risk-based approaches to assurance |
| Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials | FY2022 | £2k | Case study application of the FPIC-360 Tool for Monitoring and Verifying Free Prior and Informed Consent. |
| Bonsucro | FY2022 | £1k | Collaboration in the Sugarcane Sector (earlier year adjustment) |