Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation supports education, agriculture, environment, health and social services, public safety, hunger, poverty and culture and heritage in Maryland and other places where the Perdue company conducts business.
IP TAKE: Maryland nonprofits must share this foundation’s grants with the company’s other geographic areas of interest, but Salisbury-area groups receive substantial support each year.
PROFILE: The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation is a corporate foundation with strong roots in Salisbury, Maryland. The late Franklin Perdue, the former CEO and president of the Perdue Farms chicken company, created this foundation. The foundation aims to "support organizations and programs that benefit the communities where large numbers of our associates live and work.” It funds local efforts for education, agriculture, environment, health and social services, public safety, hunger, poverty, culture and heritage.
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation supports a broad range of topics in the places where the company does business. It often funds organizations in which its associates have direct involvement, but this is not a requirement. The foundation supports local organizations through its grassroots contribution program. It also provides product donations to food pantries, crisis shelters and feeding programs for the hungry.
Grants range between about $1,000 and $50,000, with the average grant about $10,000. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Grantmaking focuses on Maryland, as well as certain communities in the states of California, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington. It gives preference to programs in communities near Perdue company facilities. Past local grantees include Salisbury University, Delmarva Zoological Society and Horizons Salisbury.
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits and has an online application system. It reviews requests under $1,000 each month and requests over $1,000 on a quarterly basis. Deadlines are the last day of the months of March, June, September and December. Direct general questions to the staff at 800-839-1754 or via online form.
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