OVERVIEW: The Ametek Foundation broadly funds charitable work in the communities where its parent company has a presence. Areas of interest are education health, civic engagement and economic opportunity.
IP TAKE: The AMETEK Foundation is a multimillion-dollar corporate grantmaker, but it is not especially accessible to nonprofits without a connection to the company. The foundation encourages AMETEK employees to support organizations where they contribute their time, talent or money and can provide donation checks that employees present to those groups. Recent partnerships frequently involve employee volunteering, fundraising, matching contributions or relationships with AMETEK executives and local business units. For grantseekers, this suggests that cultivating an AMETEK employee, executive or operating-unit relationship is a much more realistic strategy than sending a cold proposal.
The foundation does not publish general application guidelines or maintain a public grant portal. Organizations working near an AMETEK operation—and especially those able to engage company employees as volunteers, donors, mentors or board members—appear to have the clearest path in.
PROFILE: Founded in 1960, the Ametek Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the global electronic motors and instruments manufacturer Ametek, which is based in Berwyn, Pennsyvania. The foundation supports nonprofit organizations located in communities where the company operates. Ametek’s giving centers on social and environmental responsibility, as well as diversity and inclusion. As a result, Ametek supports health and welfare; civic and social service programs; arts and culture; and education, particularly STEM for underserved students, as well as AMETEK corporate initiatives and disaster relief. The foundation supports local, national and global organizations, and recent activity is plainly international; however, a portion of this funder’s grantmaking stays in its home state of Pennsylvania.
Grants for STEM K-12 and Higher Education
Education is one of the AMETEK Foundation’s clearest priorities, with a particular focus on STEM opportunities for underserved students. Its recent education support includes school-based STEM programs, robotics, equipment, mentoring and scholarships.
- The foundation supports Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School’s STEM programming, including equipment for its STEAM lab, FIRST Robotics Club and Science Olympiad Team. Foundation funding has helped the school acquire tools including 3D printers, laptops, tablets and laser engravers.
- AMETEK employees also support FIRST Robotics teams, sometimes serving as mentors in communities near company businesses.
- The foundation has supported Guadalupe Center, an education nonprofit serving students in Immokalee, Florida.
The foundation also sponsors the AMETEK Foundation International STEM Scholarship, which is administered independently by Scholarship America. The scholarship currently supports eligible students from Serbia, the United Kingdom and the European Union who pursue undergraduate STEM study at designated universities in England, France and Serbia. Awards range from $500 to $5,000, and financial need is required. Medical fields are not eligible. The program operates through periodic open application cycles and is currently closed.
Grants for Public Health and Diseases
Health and welfare is a stated foundation priority, but recent giving is broader than support for major hospitals or national disease organizations. The foundation has backed disease-related research and programming, children’s healthcare access, community health organizations and human services.
- The foundation has supported the American Cancer Society, including its Summer Health Experience program, which introduces high school girls to STEM research. AMETEK employees have also participated in fundraising for the organization.
- Vision To Learn has received foundation support to provide eyeglasses to Philadelphia schoolchildren who otherwise lack access to vision care.
- In India, AMETEK and its foundation have supported Uthishta’s work improving diabetes care for underserved children.
- Radiant Futures, a California nonprofit serving survivors of domestic violence and abuse, has received support through AMETEK employee fundraising and matching donations from the foundation.
- Its disease-related funding tends to prioritize diabetes and cancer, with grants to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, American Cancer Society, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
- Other grantees include Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Guadalupe Center, NCH Healthcare Foundation, Rady Children’s Hospital, Islands Community Medical Services, and the Devereux Foundation.
Grants for Civic Engagement, Democracy, and Economic Opportunity
AMETEK formally describes this area as civic and social service programs. The foundation’s recent giving suggests an emphasis on practical community needs and locally rooted human services rather than democracy or civic-engagement grantmaking in the narrower philanthropic sense.
- The company maintains a longstanding relationship with United Way organizations, involving both employee participation and charitable support. AMETEK businesses have taken part in United Way campaigns and volunteer activities in communities where they operate.
- Other recent relationships illustrate the breadth of this area. The AMETEK Foundation supports Bridging, a Minnesota nonprofit that provides furniture and household goods to people transitioning out of homelessness. That relationship developed in part through AMETEK board member Tod Carpenter and his family. AMETEK employees have also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity programs and other community organizations.
- The foundation’s giving may also include environmental and conservation organizations when their work advances community wellbeing and attracts meaningful employee involvement. For example, AMETEK has supported Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary through matching contributions connected to a longtime employee volunteer.
- The foundation has given to groups like the World Affairs Councils of America for democracy and foreign policy, Eagles Charitable Foundation for youth organizing, and North Wales Area Library.
Grants for Arts and Culture
Arts and culture is a stated AMETEK Foundation priority and should not be overlooked by grantseekers. Current giving appears particularly well suited to cultural organizations that have strong connections to AMETEK employees or local communities.
In 2025, AMETEK highlighted employee involvement and foundation support for Asian American and Pacific Islander cultural organizations. One example involved an AMETEK employee who volunteers extensively with a Chinese language and cultural school, with foundation giving helping amplify employee involvement.
Grants for Disaster Relief
The AMETEK Foundation also supports company initiatives and disaster relief. AMETEK has cited international emergency responses, including support following the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, as examples of the foundation’s expanding global reach. The foundation does not publish a standing rapid-response application process for outside nonprofits, so this funding appears to be company-directed rather than an open grant opportunity.
Important Grant Details:
Grant amounts range from a low of $70 to a high of $78,000. It awards around $2.5 million annually.
- This funder’s largest grants tend to support chapters of the United Way, but education is its largest area of giving overall.
- With few exceptions, grants support organizations in areas of the U.S., where Ametek maintains operations.
- The Ametek website does not offer information about applying for a grant, but tax filings indicate that the foundation accepts proposals by mail at the address provided below.
- This funder does not provide a direct way to get in touch. Submit inquiries via the corporate contact page or by telephone at (610) 647-2121. A mailing address is provided below.
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Alexandra Dashkiwsky
1100 Cassat Rd.
Berwyn, PA 19312
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