OVERVIEW: The Foundation of Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, Farm Aid raises supports agricultural workers, policy and direct emergency relief to farmers facing natural disasters or financial crises. IP TAKE: Farm Aid represents the … [Read more...] about Farm Aid
Grants Celebrity Foundations
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
Diller-von Furstenberg Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Diller-von Furstenberg Foundation is the creation of entertainment and Internet businessman Barry Diller and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. The family foundation supports a wide range of common causes in New York City and other … [Read more...] about Diller-von Furstenberg Foundation
Stuntz Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Stuntz Family Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, human services, and health, including mental health. The foundation also earmarks funds for Jewish, arts and cultural organizations. IP TAKE: The Stuntz … [Read more...] about Stuntz Family Foundation
Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to the arts, education, health and human services. IP TAKE: This is a quiet, relationship-driven family funder with no website, published strategy or open … [Read more...] about Don and Maggie Buchwald Foundation
Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation
OVERVIEW: Eat. Learn. Play. is the nonprofit foundation founded by NBA star Stephen Curry and entrepreneur Ayesha Curry. Its philanthropy centers on Oakland children, with a particularly strong focus on students in the Oakland Unified School … [Read more...] about Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation
Trevor Noah Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Trevor Noah Foundation supports K-12 education in South Africa through its signature programs and partnerships. IP TAKE: The Trevor Noah Foundation concentrates its giving on K-12 education in Noah's native South Africa, but the … [Read more...] about Trevor Noah Foundation
Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation supports environment, literacy, community services, and the arts in the state of Maine. IP TAKE: The author Stephen King's philanthropic vehicle, the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, is one of … [Read more...] about Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation
Ted Snowdon Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Ted Snowdon Foundation primarily supports LGBTQ causes and the performing arts. Grantmaking centers on New York City, although the foundation also supports selected national LGBTQ organizations and arts, health and community groups … [Read more...] about Ted Snowdon Foundation
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The California-based Rosenthal Family Foundation supports a wide range of human rights, arts and disease-related organizations across the United States. IP TAKE: The Rosenthal Family Foundation keeps a low-profile, making it difficult to … [Read more...] about Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Family Foundation
Mourning Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Mourning Family Foundation is a Miami-based public charity established by former NBA star Alonzo Mourning and Tracy Wilson Mourning. It raises money for youth and family programming operated through two related organizations: OYC Miami … [Read more...] about Mourning Family Foundation
Eisner Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Eisner Foundation supports intergenerational programs in Los Angeles County and New York City. It also runs a nationally open fellowship for individuals developing new approaches to intergenerational connection. IP TAKE: The Eisner … [Read more...] about Eisner Foundation
David Lynch Foundation
OVERVIEW: The David Lynch Foundation’s grantmaking supports transcendental meditation, which he believed capable of transforming education, making a significant positive impact on people’s lives, and ultimately leading to world peace. IP TAKE: The … [Read more...] about David Lynch Foundation
Michael J. Fox Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research supports basic, translational and clinical research aimed at defining, measuring, treating and ultimately curing Parkinson’s disease. Its grants reach academic researchers, medical … [Read more...] about Michael J. Fox Foundation
Lear Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Lear Family Foundation maintains a cadre of grantees that receive funding year after year. It gives to large, national organizations in the areas of civic engagement, conservation and education, but its arts and culture funding tends to … [Read more...] about Lear Family Foundation
Clara Lionel Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Clara Lionel Foundation is a grantmaking public charity founded by Rihanna in 2012 and named for her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braithwaite. The foundation supports community-led work at the intersection of climate resilience, … [Read more...] about Clara Lionel Foundation
Taylor Swift
Angelina Jolie
CAUSES: Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, Global Development, Health, Education OVERVIEW: Angelina Jolie has conducted her grantmaking through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, and more recently through the Maddox Foundation, as well as via personal … [Read more...] about Angelina Jolie
LeBron James Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The LeBron James Family Foundation supports K-12 and higher education in James’s hometown of Akron, Ohio. IP TAKE: The LeBron James Family Foundation prioritizes long-term investments in its own signature initiatives, leaving relatively … [Read more...] about LeBron James Family Foundation
Maddox Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Maddox Foundation prioritizes health, education, conservation, and sustainable development efforts. IP TAKE: Formerly known as the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation or Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project, the organization now presents publicly as … [Read more...] about Maddox Foundation
Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation supports nonprofits focused on arts and culture, film, education, and human services. IP TAKE: This is the funding vehicle of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. A key source of grants for film and … [Read more...] about Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
The Streisand Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Streisand Foundation supports efforts to preserve and improve democratic institutions in the United States, funding work democracy, gender justice, violence prevention and Jewish causes. IP TAKE: The Streisand Foundation is the … [Read more...] about The Streisand Foundation
The Barry and Wendy Meyer Charitable Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Barry and Wendy Meyer Charitable Foundation funds grantmaking related to arts and culture, foster youth, mental health, human rights and criminal justice reform. K-12 education, health and Jewish causes are other areas of interest. … [Read more...] about The Barry and Wendy Meyer Charitable Foundation
M. Night Shyamalan Foundation
OVERVIEW: The M. Night Shyamalan Foundation's global development grantmaking provides unrestricted support to effective community leaders working to address poverty and inequality. IP TAKE: The M. Night Shyamalan Foundation works proactively to … [Read more...] about M. Night Shyamalan Foundation
Bob Woodruff Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Bob Woodruff Foundation focuses supporting veterans, service members and military families across several cross-cutting interests. IP TAKE: The Bob Woodruff Foundation is unusually clear about how it works. CEO Anne Marie Dougherty … [Read more...] about Bob Woodruff Foundation
Mays Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Mays Family Foundation makes the majority of its gifts in Texas, with emphasis on San Antonio. Grantmaking involves education, the environment, human services, arts and culture, and more. IP TAKE: This very family-oriented foundation … [Read more...] about Mays Family Foundation
McCombs Foundation
OVERVIEW: The McCombs Foundation, which is the philanthropic vehicle of the billionaire McCombs family, is focused on the state of Texas and gives to education, arts and culture, human services, health, and more. IP TAKE: The McCombs Foundation is … [Read more...] about McCombs Foundation
McCune Foundation
OVERVIEW: The McCune Foundation supports community and grassroots efforts for social and economic justice in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in California. IP TAKE: According to its website, the McCune Foundation supports “groups which are … [Read more...] about McCune Foundation
Peter Douglas Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Peter Douglas Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education and health. It also earmarks funds for other community causes in Santa Barbara. IP TAKE: The Peter Douglas Foundation does not maintain a website, which … [Read more...] about Peter Douglas Foundation
Moss Foundation
OVERVIEW: Founded by the late Jerry and Tina Moss, the Moss Foundation make grants for the arts, especially to music education, health, the environment, and education predominately in Los Angeles, but also across the U.S. IP TAKE: Moss … [Read more...] about Moss Foundation
