AARON RODGERS
NORCAL FIRE RECOVERY
GRANT PROGRAM
This grant program is focused on efforts that address health and wellness for youth in Butte County, especially in the Camp Fire footprint. The annual grant program accepts applications at the beginning of the year and awards grants in April.
Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Grant Program
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund at North Valley Community Foundation accepts applications annually in February. This grant program is focused on efforts that address health and wellness – physical and emotional – for youth in Butte County, especially in the Camp Fire footprint.
To see the projects that received grants in the 2026 cycle, read our press release.
Previous Grants Issued
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established at NVCF in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire in 2018. Since then, Aaron has been actively involved with several grant programs distributing millions of dollars for regional recovery.
After six years of grants for Camp Fire recovery, NVCF and the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund switched to an annual grant cycle. The first grants, awarded in March 2025, totaled $215,266 for 12 organizations in the Camp Fire footprint and throughout Butte County.
Recipient | Description | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
NorCal Mavericks Athletic Development | To secure equipment and offset costs for indoor athletic facility to allow additional teams for practice, trainings, meetings and tryouts. | $25,000 | 03/27/2019 |
Chico Westside Little League | To fund repairs and refurbishment for their fields and facilities to accommodate their increased use. | $25,000 | 03/21/2019 |
Cedarwood Elementary School Grizzlies Vax IQ Robotics Team | To purchase gasoline and lodging to attend the robotics state championship finals. | $400 | 03/05/2019 |
Paradise High School Athletics Department | To develop and equip a modular athletic training room to provide sports medicine care for student athletes. | $50,000 | 03/05/2019 |
Paradise High School | To replace two sets of graphic novels for the use of the Social Science program. | $1,600 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise Intermediate School | To fund a trip for their student leadership team to attend a leadership and team building rope course event. | $1,915 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise High School | To replace physics classroom equipment that is not currently eligible to be replaced by the district. | $4,560 | 02/26/2019 |
Ponderosa Elementary School | To purchase replacement recess play equipment for their kindergarten classes, comprised of 75 students. | $1,700 | 02/26/2019 |
Paradise Unified School District | To fund an annual trip to the Shady Creek 6th Grade Environmental Camp for 106 students. | $25,000 | 02/19/2019 |
Paradise Elementary | To provide funding for an overnight field trip for fifth grade students in their last year at Paradise Elementary. | $14,300 | 02/12/2019 |
Cedarwood Elementary School | To provide a therapeutic art project for each of the grades K-6. | $4,500 | 02/12/2019 |
Paradise High School | To provide 2019 yearbooks for its current students free of charge. | $24,900 | 02/12/2019 |
Aaron was born and raised in Chico before becoming a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and four-time NFL Most Valuable Player.
The Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund was established in 2018 with $1 million from the Aaron Rodgers Foundation. The fund has been bolstered by thousands of additional donations, including contri-butions after Aaron hosted “Jeopardy” as well as proceeds from a celebrity golf event.
The fund has supported dozens of organizations and programs to help promote a sense of normalcy for young people as well as supporting several housing initiatives. The fund continues to issue grants for recovery from several Northern California wildfires, including $50,000 for relief efforts after both the Thompson Fire and Park Fire in Butte County in 2024.
Grants from the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund have totaled $1.9 million.
Aaron started a new fund at NVCF in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Aaron Rodgers Small-Business COVID-19 Fund. That fund helped 159 small, locally owned restaurants and retail businesses with rent and other operational costs to help survive pandemic restrictions. Grants from the fund totaled $1.6 million.