Eaglemere Foundation
/OVERVIEW: Eaglemere Foundation supports environmental conservation, global health and global development concerns.
IP TAKE: Eaglemere makes grants to large international global health and development organizations, but smaller organizations shouldn’t hesitate to reach out to discuss funding, regardless of the particular health or development field in which they work. However, if you’re in the global health or global development field, make sure your project considers how people’s health and well being are influenced by the environment or you’ll have little success here.
Eaglemere tends to make general support grants rather than those of the project specific variety. Organizations based in or serving Boston, Washington, New York, or Anchorage, Alaska have an edge here, but the foundation awards nationally, as well as internationally.
PROFILE: Based in Massachusetts, the Eaglemere Foundation was established by Marilyn and Jay Sarles. Eaglemere was founded primarily as an environmental conservation foundation. Its founders, the Sarles, are heavily involved in the environmental conservation community—Marilyn serves as the vice chair of the Massachusetts Board of Trustees at the Nature Conservancy. The foundation funds environmental conservation work, global health and global development.
This is a smaller nonprofit that conducts funding through an environmental lens. Though it makes grants for global health and development, it does so from a perspective that ties the environment’s effects on both. The Eaglemere Foundation seeks organizations that “pursue a pragmatic, science-based, multi-stakeholder approach and that cooperate and collaborate with other organizations, governments, businesses and individuals.”
Although Eaglemere maintains a website, it consists of a single page loosely outlining its grantmaking priorities and a brief list of grantees.
Grants for Environmental Conservation and Climate Change
The Eaglemere Foundation, as hinted in its name, largely views itself as an environmental funder. It conceives of its environmental work as both “programmatic (river restoration, ecosystem conservation, species preservation, climate change mitigation) and geographic (New England, Rocky Mountains, Alaska, Latin America).” Environmental work has addressed dams, strengthened protections for endangered species, and reinforced climate resilience across the world.
The foundation does not name particular environmental grantmaking strategies, preferring to give general support. Environmental grants tend to be its largest, often ranging from about $15,000 to $225,000. The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Environmental Defense Fund have received some of its largest grants. Other past environmental grantees include Trustees for Alaska Trust, The River Network, Lakes Region Conservation, and Central Park Conservancy, among others.
Grants for Global Development and Global Health
The Eaglemere Foundation’s related grants here historically focus on the general operations of large international groups, such as Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, which have received $60,000 and $50,000 respectively. Though the foundation prioritizes purely environmental giving, it makes some awards for health and development.
Important Grant Details:
Eaglemere’s recent tax filings reveal grantmaking in the $10,000 to $225,000 range. Generally, it supports about 30 organizations a year, about 10 or less in the health and development sphere. Unfortunately, these grants do not define specific global health or development focuses. Explore past grantees further here.
The foundation conducts both national and international grantmaking; however, grants tend to cluster around Boston, Washington, New York, or Anchorage, Alaska, but work in Brazil, Latin America, Greater Yellowstone and the Arctic, among other geographic areas, have received funding.
The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests for funding or grant applications. It does, however, encourage grant seekers to reach out to its Executive Director Dan Sarles, dgsarles@eaglemere.org, for more information and to discuss possible funding.
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