Private Foundation Funding Resources 2010
Foundation
The Jessie
Smith Noyes
Foundation
6 East 39th
Street
12th Floor
New York, NY
10016 -0112
The Kresge
Foundation
3215 West
Big Beaver
Road
Troy, MI
48084
Geo
Focus
Nat’l
Giving
Range
$10,000
to
$50,000
Deadline
Areas of interest
Notes
Contact
none
The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation promotes a sustainable and just
social and natural system by supporting grassroots organizations and
movements committed to this goal. The Foundation's funding priorities
are shaped by a view of the Earth as one community, an interconnected
web of life in which human society is an integral part.
Protect the Health and Environment of Communities Threatened by
Toxics
Supporting organizations, primarily at the state and regional
levels, that: bring together activists to work on toxics exposure and
contamination; and, promote initiatives and public policies that reduce
the use of toxins and hold corporations accountable for their impact on
the environment.
Advance Environmental Justice
Supporting organizations, led by people most heavily affected, that work
to counter environmental degradation in low-income communities and
communities of color.
Phone:
212-6846577
Fax: 212689-6549
Email:
noyes@no
yes.org
Url:
http://www.
noyes.org/
Nat’l
NA
(total
giving
$181,00
0,000)
none
The Foundation's six areas of interest include:
Health: The primary focus is improving access to health care for
groups who have been marginalized, particularly low-income
people, minorities, and women. Organizations with a
predominant emphasis on improving the health status of these
populations will receive priority attention.
Environment: The Foundation aims to assist society in mitigating the
severity of climate change and proactively addressing its
unavoidable impacts. Mitigation grantmaking focuses on
reducing energy use through the adoption of efficiency
measures and the conversion to clean energy sources.
Adaptation grantmaking supports efforts to develop strategies
and resources that promote resilience to climate change in both
human and natural systems.
Arts and Culture The Foundation believes well-capitalized cultural
organizations are better able to serve diverse populations with
"For 2010, the
Foundation will
not consider
new requests.
Grants will be
made to
organizations
that are already
Noyes grantees.
This policy only
affects the 2010
grantmaking
cycle. A decision
about the 2011
grants budget
will be made in
mid-2010."
(From the
Foundation's
website)
Application
guidelines are
available on the
Foundation's
website.guidelin
es are available
on the
Foundation's
website.
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Phone:
248-6439630
Fax: 248643-0588
Url:
http://www.
kresge.org/
Acorn
Foundation
c/o Common
Counsel
Foundation
678 13th
Street
Suite 100
Oakland, CA
94612
Nat’l
Priority
is given
to the
western
United
States,
but a
few
grants
may be
made
each
year to
organiz
$5,000 $10,000
Letters of
inquiry:
January 15
and June
15,
annually
meaningful programming, that artists can more effectively
engage audiences and contribute to community life if they have
the skills and resources necessary for career success, and that
integrating arts and culture into community building and
revitalization efforts energizes localities both economically and
culturally. Through the Institutional Capitalization grants
program the Foundation provides support for facility investments
and building reserves.
Education The Foundation's grantmaking is rooted in a desire to
overcome systematic inequities in early childhood and higher
education and to provide life-changing educational opportunities
to those who have been excluded. Support is provided to
organizations and institutions endeavoring to educate a
workforce that can compete successfully in the global economy.
Human Services The Foundation focuses primarily on the capital
needs of community-based human service organizations that
offer opportunity and access to the most vulnerable,
disadvantaged, and low-income people in order to improve their
quality of life.
Community Development
The Foundation supports organizations
working in geographically-defined rural, urban, and aging suburban
neighborhoods to enhance grassroots participation, resident
empowerment, physical revitalization, neighborhood cohesion and, in
some cases, youth opportunity.
The Acorn Foundation, a member of the Common Counsel consortium
of foundations, is dedicated to advancing community-based
organizations working for environmental conservation, sustainability, and
environmental justice. The Foundation gives priority to the western
United States, but may make a few grants each year to environmental
organizations in the South and in Appalachia.
The Foundation is particularly interested in small and innovative
community-based projects that engage in community organizing to:
preserve and restore habitats that support biological diversity and
wildlife;
advocate for environmental justice, particularly in low-income and
indigenous communities; and,
prevent or remedy toxic pollution.
General operating and project support are provided.
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Phone:
510-8342995
Fax: 510834-2998
Email:
info@com
moncounse
l.org
Url:
http://www.
commonco
unsel.org/A
corn%20Fo
undation
Oak
Foundation
511 Congress
Street
Suite 800
Portland, ME
04101
ations
in the
South
and in
Appala
chia.
Nat’l
$25,000
$10,000
,000
none
The Oak Foundation, an international philanthropy, commits its
resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental
concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the
disadvantaged.
Grants are made to organizations in the U.S. and internationally. The
geographic emphasis varies by priority area.
The Oak Foundation’s priorities include:
Environment
The Foundation addresses global climate change by
advocating for renewable energy and energy efficiency in the power and
Application
guidelines are
available on the
Foundation's
website.
Phone:
617-5425565
Fax: 617542-5570
Email:
naep@oakf
nd.org
Url:
http://www.
oakfnd.org
transport sectors through education, research, and policy change.
Program areas include:
Lannan
Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
Nat’l
NA
none
Elihu
ALASKA
$10,000
Application
North American Climate and Energy;
European Climate Change;
India Climate Grants; and,
Conservation of Marine Environment, including Europe, the
Mesoamerican Reef Eco-Region, and the Bering Sea and North Pacific.
Indigenous Communities Funding for projects in indigenous
communities supports the resolve of Native people to renew their
communities through their own institutions and traditions. Funding
priority is given to rural community projects that are consistent with
traditional values in the areas of environmental protection and advocacy,
legal rights, language revitalization, traditional culture, and education.
Grant awards are made to organizations that are Native-led and benefit
a significant portion of the community.
The Foundation will consider multi-year requests for funding of project
costs, operating costs, technical assistance, and collaborative activities
that build organizational strength and community capacity.
Areas of Interest:
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http://www.l
annan.org
Phone:
Foundation
Chicago, IL
$11,000
s are
accepted
between
February 1
and June
1,
annually.
The Elihu Foundation supports nonprofit and community organizations in
Alaska. Grants are made to empower women, minorities, and Alaska
Natives.
The Foundation focuses its grant program in the following areas:
Community-scale economic development that maintains levels of growth
at a small scale and supports alternative models of business enterprise
(micro-enterprises, cooperatives, etc.). These enterprises should plan on
becoming self-sustaining, but not necessarily profit-making.
312-5583900
Email:
jegan@mc
kennalaw.com
Organizations promoting community concern for environmental quality,
better living or working conditions, affordable housing, and housing
assistance.
Community-based social relief and human services organizations
providing health care, family planning, vocational training, drug and
alcohol counseling, food pantry services, shelter and support for the
homeless and abused, and nutritional education.
Two types of grants are available:
One-year grants to organizations facing short-term challenges.
Awards of $1,000 to individuals who have made significant impacts in
their communities. Nominations are accepted from any Alaskan citizen
and should indicate what impact the individual has had upon their
community, particularly as it has addressed critical challenges.
Types of support include: project support; general support; and, seed
money.
Seva
Foundation
Berkeley, CA
Nat’l
Grant
Range:
$2,000 $5,000
Averag
e
Grant:
$3,500
Eligibility Requirements:
Nonprofit organizations, Indigenous Nations, and public agencies
http://www.
seva.org/
Areas of Interest:
The Seva Foundation serves people around the world who are
struggling for health, cultural survival, and sustainable communities.
Primary
Contact:
Ms.
Bonney
Hartley
Native
Seva's Native American Grants Program provides support to Native
American-led organizations working to devise solutions to the
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Seventh
Generation
Arcata, CA
Nat’l
$100$10,000
Ford
Foundation
320 East 43rd
Street
New York, NY
10017
Nat’l
TOTAL
ANNUA
L:
$582,25
7,000
None
challenges that face their communities.
The focus is on the following priority areas: spiritual and cultural
renewal; health and wellness; protecting Mother Earth; economic
development; educational development; and, indigenous youth.
American
Program
Research
Associate
Email:
bhartley@s
eva.org
Range: $100- $10,000
Environmental Health and Justice
Support is provided for small grants
and technical assistance to Indigenous peoples involved in frontline
grassroots action, advocacy for environmental and social justice, and
community organizing. Projects include support for groups impacted by
invasive or extractive industries or by companies or practices that pollute
or deplete natural resources.
Sacred Earth
Support is provided for community-based efforts to
revitalize traditional spiritual practices and life ways and protect and
preserve traditional sacred sites – these include geographical areas of
historical spiritual significance to Indigenous peoples, threatened by
encroachment of interests harmful to these special places.
Sustainable Communities
This program provides seed money,
organizational support, and technical training to Native grassroots
community-based projects striving for holistic community health and
renewal. Support if provided for traditional agricultural methods,
renewable forms of energy, and sustainable strategies for development
that preserve or restore traditional life-ways for future generations.
http://www.
7genfund.o
rg/
Areas of Interest:
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions
worldwide. The mission of the Foundation is to:
strengthen democratic values;
reduce poverty and injustice;
promote international cooperation; and,
advance human achievement.
Democratic and Accountable Government
The Foundation supports efforts that help people become participants in
the decisions that have an impact on their lives, with emphasis on robust
and inclusive civic organizations that bring diverse people together and
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Application
guidelines are
available on the
Foundation's
website. Eligible
entities:
Nonprofit
organizations
and government
agencies
Phone:
212-5735000
Fax: 212351-3677
Email:
office-ofcommunica
tions@fordf
oundation.
org
Url:
give them a voice in the democratic process.
The focus is on:
strengthening civil society;
increasing civic and political participation;
promoting transparent, effective, and accountable government;
promoting electoral reform and democratic participation; and,
reforming global financial governance.
Sustainable Development
The Foundation supports the development of natural resource policies
and programs that give poor communities more control over these
resources and a stronger voice in decision making on land use and
development.
The focus is on:
expanding community rights over natural resources; and,
climate change responses that strengthen rural communities.
http://www.
fordfound.o
rg/
Primary
Contact:
Mr. Luis A.
Ubiñas
President
Freedom of Expression
Worldwide the Foundation's work focuses on promoting public policies
that ensure equal access to all media platforms and strengthening public
service media. The Foundation also invests in the creative capital of
underserved communities by supporting arts spaces that embrace
marginalized voices and diverse audiences. In the United States, the
Foundation supports religious leaders and institutions that engage in
public efforts to promote justice and equity as well as efforts through the
media to promote informed, diverse, and necessary dialogue on the
public role of religion.
The focus is on:
supporting diverse arts spaces;
advancing public service media;
advancing media rights and access; and,
religion in the public sphere
KongsgaardGoldman
Foundation
Alaska,
Idaho,
Montan
Grant
Range:
$500 -
The
Foundatio
n is on
Areas of Interest:
The Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation provides support to a wide range
of nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon,
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Phone:
206-4481874
1932 First
Avenue
Suite 602
Seattle, WA
98101
a,
Oregon
,
Washin
gton
$50,000
Averag
e
Grant:
$1,000 $15,000
hiatus and
is not
currently
accepting
application
s.
Idaho, Alaska, Montana), including British Columbia, Canada.
Within the program areas of human rights, civic development,
environmental protection, and the arts and humanities, the Foundation
favors projects reflecting a deep and broad level of citizen participation
and leadership. The priority is to help fund the building of grassroots
organizations with the power to change their communities and improve
their lives.
While grants are awarded within the areas mentioned above, the
Foundation is particularly interested in proposals reflecting the following
general program categories listed in order of priority:
Environmental Protection and Conservation Support is provided for
public policy, litigation, citizen involvement, public education, restoration,
Fax: 206448-1973
Email:
kgf@kongs
gaardgoldman.or
g
Url:
http://www.
kongsgaar
dgoldman.or
g/
sustainable land use, and environmental justice. Grants are awarded for
both general operating expenses and special projects.
Nathan
Cummings
Foundation
475 Tenth
Avenue
14th Floor
New York, NY
10018
Nationa
l
Grant
Range:
$1,000 $950,00
0
Ave.
Grant:
$5,000 $100,00
0
Letters of
Inquiry:
none
Full
Proposals:
January 15
and
August 15,
annually
Human Rights/Civic Development Support is provided for advocacy,
public policy, civil liberties, and community capacity building. Particular
attention is paid to community-supported projects which mobilize people
to create progressive social change. The Foundation is also interested in
helping groups achieve internal organizational change through small, as
needed, technical assistance grants and by funding projects that help
these groups gain the skills necessary to guarantee their place at the
table where the broader community conversations and policy decisions
take place. Grants are awarded for both general operating expenses
and special projects.
Arts and Culture Program
The goal of this program is to create a
stronger and more socially just society by building the field of art and
social justice and amplifying the voices of underrepresented
communities. The objectives of this program are:
to support community-based artistic and cultural projects that
illuminate social and economic justice issues;
to support convenings and training programs for artists, cultural
workers, and community members that impart information and
skills that can be used to achieve social change;
to support diverse media and innovative delivery systems that
document and disseminate the work of the field; and,
to support public policies that strengthen artistic and cultural
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Primary
Contact:
Ms. Martha
Kongsgaar
d
Presiden
Phone:
212-7877300
Fax: 212787-7377
Email:
contact@n
athancum
mings.org
Url:
http://www.
nathancum
mings.org/
communities and enable creators and their collaborators to
create broad alliances in pursuit of common goals.
Priority will be given to initiatives that:
have national or regional impact;
address issues that are timely and relevant;
involve participating artists or cultural institutions that demonstrate
effective practices; and,
have broad and innovative plans for the dissemination of the work.
Ecological Innovation Program The goal of this program is to address
the challenges of climate change and to promote vibrant and sustainable
ecological systems that support healthy communities and a just
economy. Funding focuses on the following objectives:
Bill and
Melinda
Gates
Foundation
P.O. Box
23350
Seattle, WA
98102
Nat’l
with
focus
on WA
and OR
Total
Annual
Giving:
$2,800,
000,000
to encourage the development of broad alliances that advance
integrated and sustainable approaches to social, economic, and
ecological justice; and,
to promote innovative public policies and other approaches by which
corporations, governments and other institutions take responsibility for
the real risks and costs of their activities and become drivers of positive
ecological and social change.
Areas of Interest:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to building upon the
unprecedented opportunities of the 21st century to improve equity in
global health and learning. The Foundation awards most grants through
the following program areas:
Global Development
This program supports work to reduce poverty and
hunger and to expand access to information in the developing world.
Efforts are supported through the following initiatives:
Agricultural Development;
Financial Services for the Poor;
Special Initiatives, including Global Libraries; Water, Sanitation, and
Hygiene; Urban Poverty; and Emergency Relief; and,
Policy and Advocacy.
Note: The Access to Learning Award, a program of the Global Libraries
initiative, recognizes the innovative efforts of organizations outside the
United States that are bringing free access to information technology to
people who need it. Each year, one award recipient receives $1 million.
Global Health
The Foundation focuses on the diseases and health
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Primary
Contact:
Mr. Lance
E.
Lindblom
President
Phone:
206-7093140
Fax: 206709-3310
Email:
info@gates
foundation.
org
Url:
http://www.
gatesfound
ation.org/
conditions that represent the greatest health burden in the developing
world, and receive relatively little attention and resources.
The Foundation's efforts in global health aim to harness advances in
science and technology to save lives in developing countries. The
Foundation works with partners to deliver proven tools such as vaccines,
drugs, and diagnostics, and to invent new solutions where they don’t
exist.
The Foundation's work in infectious diseases focuses on developing
ways to fight and prevent enteric and diarrheal diseases, HIV/AIDS,
malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and neglected and other infectious
diseases.
The Foundation also works on integrated health solutions for family
planning; nutrition, maternal, neonatal and child health; tobacco control;
and vaccine-preventable diseases.
Note: The Foundation also offers the Grand Challenges Explorations
grant program that encourages researchers to explore early-stage,
transformational ideas that could change the face of health in the
developing world.
Pacific Northwest Community Grants
This program supports nonprofit organizations, federally-recognized
tribes, or governmental agencies in Washington State and the Portland,
OR area. The majority of grants in the Pacific Northwest support three
core objectives:
Connecting families to government support.
Many low-income
families are already eligible for a variety of government
assistance, such as food stamps and the earned income tax
credit. The Foundation supports the efforts of community-based
organizations and government agencies to increase use of
these supports through public outreach, education, and the
creation of new and efficient technology tools that are easy to
access and use.
Supporting evidence-based and promising approaches to preventing
and reducing violence in local communities.
Children and
families who experience violence are more likely to suffer longterm consequences that affect their ability to learn, relate in
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healthy ways to other people, and participate fully in their
communities. Support is provided to organizations that provide
services in two areas: programs targeted to help people
impacted directly by violence, with an emphasis on initiatives
that work to prevent domestic violence, youth violence, and child
abuse and neglect; and prevention efforts focused on
understanding and addressing the underlying causes of violence
among vulnerable populations.
Enhancing academic success through community and school
collaboration.
Children who receive a quality education are
more likely to find meaningful work and contribute to their
communities as adults. High-performing early-learning
providers, schools, and colleges contribute directly to academic
success. The Foundation supports collaborative projects that
are comprised of at least two separate entities working
together—one being a community organization and the other an
educational provider, which can include: early learning
providers; K-12 schools, networks of schools, or entire school
districts; and postsecondary institutions (including two-year
community and technical colleges and four-year public and
private universities). The Foundation funds planning, pilot
programs, and efforts to grow or scale-up existing
collaborations. Support is also provided for projects related to
building field capacity or sharing knowledge and sound practices
such as conferences or reports.
Wallace
Genetic
Foundation
4910
Massachusett
s Avenue,
NW
Suite 221
Washington,
DC
20016
Nat’l
$25,000
$40,000
none
Areas of Interest:
The Wallace Genetic Foundation is committed to funding a variety of
interests including agricultural research, preservation of farmland,
ecology, conservation, and sustainable development. The Foundation
supports organizations that believe in the long-term conservation of the
soil and of the environment, rather than exploitation of natural resources
for temporary profits.
Grants are made in the following areas of interest:
sustainable agriculture;
protection of farmland near cities;
plant genetic research;
biodiversity protection; and,
environmental education and media.
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Phone:
202-9662932
Fax: 202966-3370
Email:
info@walla
cegenetic.o
rg
Url:
http://www.
wallacegen
etic.org/
The Foundation is particularly interested in far-sighted groups and
individuals with innovative ideas, and seeks to fund organizations whose
work promises to provide long-term national or global benefit.
Types of support include:
project support;
general support;
research; and,
conferences/workshops/seminars.
Grants are not made to/for:
individuals;
scholarships;
endowments; or,
multi-year commitments.
The David
and Lucile
Packard
Foundation
300 Second
Street
Los Altos, CA
94022
na
varies
Areas of Interest:
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation invests in innovative people
and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable the creative
pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and
restore earth's natural systems.
The Foundation provides statewide, national, and international grants,
and also offers a local grantmaking program targeting San Benito, San
Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey counties in Northern
California as well as Pueblo County in Colorado.
The majority of the Foundation's grantmaking focuses on the following
program areas:
Conservation and Science Program
This program seeks to protect and
restore our oceans, coasts, and atmosphere and to enable the creative
pursuit of scientific research toward this goal. Subprogram areas that
accept applications include:
Coastal Systems This subprogram seeks to promote sustainability in
coastal systems in three specific geographic regions: the
California Coast, the Gulf of California, and the Western Pacific.
Marine Birds
This subprogram seeks to stop or reverse the decline of
threatened seabird and shorebird populations, particularly those
that rely on coastal and island habitats in the eastern and
central Pacific.
Western Conservation
The goal of this subprogram is to protect and
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Application
Procedures:
A
pplication
guidelines are
available on the
Foundation's
website listed
above.
Phone:
650-9487658
Email:
inquiries@
packard.or
g
Url:
http://www.
packard.or
g/
Primary
Contact:
Ms. Carol
S. Larson
President
and Chief
Executive
Officer
restore biologically important and iconic regions of Western
North America in ways which help create sustainable
communities and build broader and more effective conservation
constituencies.
Agriculture
This subprogram seeks to achieve a 20 percent reduction
by 2020 in projected net greenhouse gas emissions and
nitrogen pollution caused by agriculture in the United States and
biofuel production globally.
Science This subprogram supports use-inspired marine research,
improves the linkages between science and decision making, and
supports science-focused ecosystem-based management for coastalmarine systems.
Stonyfield
Farm: Profits
for the
Planet
Program
10 Burton
Drive
Londonderry,
NH
03053
na
none
Areas of Interest:
The Stonyfield Farm Profits for the Planet Program donates 10%
of the company's profits to nonprofit organizations for efforts that
help protect or restore the environment and generate measurable
results.
In the past, the program has supported efforts to preserve habitat
and wilderness, stop global warming, replace pesticide use with
ecologically sound alternatives, save disappearing farmland,
promote sustainable farming, and more.
Types of support include general operating and project support.
In addition to funds, Stonyfield Farm often donates product to
organizations. To learn more about product donations, please visit
http://stonyfield.com/contact_us/request_donations/index.jsp. Email:
pfp@ston
yfield.com
Url:
http://www
.stonyfield
.com/abou
t_us/stony
field_profit
s_for_plan
et/index.js
p
Primary
Contact:
President'
s Office,
Special
Projects
Manager
Haskell Fund
1422 Euclid
Avenue
Room 1010
Nat’l
with
emphas
is on So.
$500 $15,000
none
Areas of Interest:
The Haskell Fund provides support to nonprofit organizations
nationwide, but gives preference to those located in Southern California.
The Fund supports five focus areas:
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Phone:
216-3636481
Cleveland,
OH
44115
CA
Community Service
Funding priorities in this area include:
human service organizations;
youth services; and,
food distribution programs.
Education
Funding priorities in this area include:
secondary education; and,
higher education.
Medical
Funding priorities in this area include:
hospitals; and,
children's health.
Conservation and the Environment
Funding priorities in this area include:
animal welfare;
wildlife conservation;
land protection; and,
nature conservancies.
Arts and Culture
Funding priorities in this area include:
arts organizations.
Types of support include:
general operating;
project support;
building funds;
equipment purchase; and,
land/property acquisition.
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Primary
Contact:
Mr. James
Sekerak
Treasurer