OVERVIEW: The Dr. Seuss Foundation supports early literacy, education, arts and humanities, health and wellbeing, animal conservation, and the environment in San Diego, California and beyond. IP TAKE: The Dr. Seuss Foundation is an important … [Read more...] about Dr. Seuss Foundation
Grants for Arts & Education
D’Addario Foundation
OVERVIEW: The D’Addario Foundation supports music education programs as a way of building communities and affecting social change. IP TAKE: The D’Addario Foundation is a specialized music education funder that prioritizes intensive, ongoing … [Read more...] about D’Addario Foundation
Dekko Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dekko Foundation supports early childhood development, K-12 education, career exploration, youth philanthropy, civic engagement, arts education and community development in select counties in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota. IP … [Read more...] about Dekko Foundation
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation runs funding initiatives for college access, health, arts education, Jewish life, Israel and the University of California. A significant portion of funding is directed at Los Angeles-based … [Read more...] about Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Goldrich Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Goldrich Family Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related Jewish causes and hospitals. IP TAKE: The Goldrich Foundation’s larger grants support U.S. and Israeli Jewish organizations and the Cedars Sinai medical system of Los … [Read more...] about Goldrich Family Foundation
Orcas Island Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Orcas Island Community Foundation supports nonprofits on Orcas Island in Washington across a broad range of community needs and interests. This funder also supports local organizations with its capacity building tools and assets. IP … [Read more...] about Orcas Island Community Foundation
Ford Foundation
Conru Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Conru Foundation supports environmental conservation and conservative groups working in education, media and democracy. It also makes grants for arts organizations in Seattle. IP TAKE: The Conru Foundation is an eclectic funder … [Read more...] about Conru Foundation
Wyman Youth Trust
OVERVIEW: The Wyman Youth Trust supports arts and culture, education and a broad range of services for vulnerable children and youth in the state of Washington. IP TAKE: The Wyman Youth Trust’s youth-oriented giving focuses on the most vulnerable … [Read more...] about Wyman Youth Trust
Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wynn family moves philanthropy through the Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation which is interested in providing wraparound services for K-12 youth living in poverty; supporting performing and backing organizations where the arts … [Read more...] about Elaine P. Wynn and Family Foundation
Brooklyn Org
OVERVIEW: Brooklyn Org gives broadly to support the diverse communities of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. IP TAKE: Brooklyn Org is a community foundation with an unusually explicit commitment to participatory grantmaking, racial … [Read more...] about Brooklyn Org
Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education and the arts. It also earmarks funds for health, democracy and Jewish causes. IP TAKE: The Wachenheim Foundation keeps a low public profile, … [Read more...] about Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation
Joel Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Joel Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to arts education. IP TAKE: The Joel Foundation does not maintain a website, which restricts transparency about grantmaking strategies and guidelines. This is a good regional arts … [Read more...] about Joel Foundation
Riggio Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Riggio Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to arts, culture, education, youth, health and human services. IP TAKE: Riggio does not maintain a website, which restricts transparency about grantmaking strategies and … [Read more...] about Riggio Foundation
Leeds Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Leeds Family Foundation supports Jewish causes, arts and culture, education and sports and recreation mainly in the New York metropolitan area. The family bankrolled the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning at the New York Junior … [Read more...] about Leeds Family Foundation
Mary & James G. Wallach Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Mary & James G. Wallach Foundation funds grantmaking related to education, youth, the arts, health, and human services. IP TAKE: The Wallach Foundation is an invitation-only funder with no public-facing website or open … [Read more...] about Mary & James G. Wallach Foundation
Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation funds programs which advance arts education in public, charter, and parochial schools in New York City, supports scholarly research in the arts, loans works of art to museums for special … [Read more...] about Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
OVERVIEW: The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music supports performance, scholarly output and professional development related to the work and lives of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Marc Blitzstein. IP TAKE: This is a niche music funder that limits … [Read more...] about The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Ganek Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Ganek Family Foundation’s grantmaking largely invests in education and the arts across the United States; however, it prioritizes New York City. IP TAKE: The Ganek Family Foundation maintains a low public profile and does not … [Read more...] about Ganek Family Foundation
The Pollination Project
OVERVIEW: The Pollination Project makes seed grants to individuals and grassroots organizations working to “create a more compassionate world.” Areas of grantmaking interest include but are not strictly limited to global development, human rights, … [Read more...] about The Pollination Project
Global Village Charitable Trust
OVERVIEW: Global Village Charitable Trust primarily supports arts and culture, arts education and youth development, health and human services, Jewish causes, and select public policy, civil liberties and public-interest organizations. IP TAKE: … [Read more...] about Global Village Charitable Trust
Kohler Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Kohler Foundation supports arts and education programs primarily in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, with additional grantmaking in rural communities elsewhere in the state. It also operates significant scholarship and art preservation … [Read more...] about Kohler Foundation
Spionkop Charitable Trust
OVERVIEW: The Spionkop Charitable Trust primarily supports arts and design, education, conservation and horticulture, with additional giving for medical research and selected human services. IP TAKE: Spionkop is a quiet, relationship-driven family … [Read more...] about Spionkop Charitable Trust
Stuart Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Stuart Foundation supports efforts to improve public education systems and help adolescents thrive, with current grantmaking focused primarily on California. Its priorities include high school transformation and adolescent learning, … [Read more...] about Stuart Foundation
NewAlliance Foundation
OVERVIEW: This Connecticut bank legacy foundation supports organizations in 42 communities, primarily in Greater New Haven and selected communities east of the Connecticut River. Its grantmaking focuses on arts, community development, health and … [Read more...] about NewAlliance Foundation
Alice L. Walton Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Alice L. Walton Foundation (ALWF) is the private foundation of Walmart heir and philanthropist Alice Walton. Founded in 2017 and based in Bentonville, Arkansas, the foundation supports arts and culture, education, community, and health … [Read more...] about Alice L. Walton Foundation
Snap Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Snap Foundation supports arts, education and youth in Los Angeles, California. IP TAKE: A newer foundation on the Los Angeles grantmaking scene, the Snap Foundation has only a handful of years worth only of available information it's … [Read more...] about Snap Foundation
VIA Art Fund
OVERVIEW: VIA Art Fund supports contemporary visual art through artistic production grants and an annual curatorial fellowship. IP TAKE: VIA is considerably more accessible than a strictly invitation-only arts funder. Its core Artistic Production … [Read more...] about VIA Art Fund
David Rockefeller Fund
OVERVIEW: The David Rockefeller Fund is a small family foundation that supports the arts, climate solutions and justice system transformation. Social justice and equity underpin all of its giving. IP TAKE: The David Rockefeller Fund is a family … [Read more...] about David Rockefeller Fund
Turing Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Amsterdam-based Turing Foundation's specific areas of giving include sustainble food systems, marine conservation, leprosy research, music education and visual arts. IP TAKE: The Netherlands' based Turing Foundation tends to refine … [Read more...] about Turing Foundation
