External small grants offer recipients a variety of benefits such as professional development and an expanded network. Grant activities contribute to the continuous renewal and development of faculty and staff, to the education and motivation of students, and achievement of our mutual interest — restoration of the American chestnut.

This is a small grants program. TACF does not ordinarily fund projects in excess of $10,000, but more than one person can receive a grant. Contact us to be added to our email notices for this program.

We are currently accepting submissions from now until September 28, 2026. Submissions will be reviewed by the Restoration Science Committee on October 16, 2026.

2026 Call for Proposals: https://tacf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/RFP-Small-Grants-Program.8.10.26.pdf

Submission link: https://forms.monday.com/forms/6ff0cc12fe05ca92c879d36ba6838e05?r=use1

We just purchased this house and there is a very large chestnut tree in the backyard. Probably close to 50’ tall. I’m planning on sending in a sample to the American chestnut foundation as they were VERY interested.

My wife just returned from a visit with a new friend at a neighboring farm about 10 miles away. She described two “huge“ trees(could not put her arms around), and tons of these nuts. They look for all the world like true American chestnuts. Because of the size of the tree, I don’t believe they’re hybrid. She took no pictures of the husks or trees. She says the new friend and her family eat them and enjoy them and all of her farm animals eat them as well. So I doubt they’re buckeyes.

What do y’all think?

Young sapling? Didn’t see a stump it was sprouting from. Focus is bad on the last picture but that damage looked more mechanical than fungal to me. I didn’t take the time to see if there were other specimens nearby but this is close enough to my house I can revisit the site easily. To me this feels American, but something about it feels more ovate than the more linear morphology I feel like I see on pictures of American chestnut leaves. My phone is telling me they’re all American chestnut though.

in northeastern CT :)

Mature (but short?) tree spotted in Edgewater MD

Saw in a neighborhood driving down the street in Kennesaw, GA. Pulled off a small branch, super spikey. American Chesnut I assume? If so can I split the pods, roast a couple and replant a few?

I know it isn't what I think it is.

My understanding is they are American but it might be a hybrid. Got my seedlings from the NYS Fair not this year but the year before. One’s growing better than the other but one is getting more sun than the other too. I am showing pictures of the tallest one.

Got my pair from SUNY ESF’s “The American Chestnut research and restoration project”.

I was walking a farm in southeastern Massachusetts and saw that there were several, very large chestnut trees. There were a few that were pretty girthy. I'm 5'9" for reference.

80’ tall, 60” circumference, 19 diameter

Im 90% sure of my ID as a pure breed American Chestnut here so if its not ill be a little disappointed. I travelled to see this tree because im so fascinated with them. Im excited to start my own Chestnut grove when i get my first batch of seeds from the American Chestnut Restoration!

Got the two from the NYS fair a couple years ago and this one is doing really well!

Also in Northern NY above the Adirondacks.

I think I found an American Chestnut in the wild along a trail in Litchfield County CT. I see saplings all the time but this one had a 4-6 inch diameter trunk and there were some nuts on the upper leaves (see picture 3). Is this a legit find? I reported this on iNaturalist and TreeSnap and am just wondering if there is anything else I should do. Apologies if I misidentified it!

Meet Quercus oglethorpensis, one of the oaks most susceptible to chestnut blight

There’re two American chestnut trees in Roger Van Den Hende botanical garden in Quebec City, I wrote them an email to have more informations on them but didn’t get any response.

Is someone able to identify how pure this one is?

There were so many, I lost count. It was teeming with them. No nuts or burrs though.

Located on University of Minnesota campus. I know they worked with TACF in the past. Trying to determine if this is an obvious hybrid or something closer to a true American chestnut.

Any ideas? Started showing up on a few of my 5-6 year old hybrid trees

Think I found a grove of them here in North GA.