OVERVIEW: The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation is a broad, nationally oriented funder that awards relatively modest grants to a large and varied group of nonprofits. Its interests include arts and culture, education, health and human services, … [Read more...] about Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Grants for Journalism & Media
Democracy Fund
OVERVIEW: The Democracy Fund supports election reform, voting rights, government oversight, media and journalism, migrant's rights, and other efforts toward a fair and inclusive democracy in the U.S. IP TAKE: Democracy Fund is a well-connected … [Read more...] about Democracy Fund
Democracy Alliance
OVERVIEW: Democracy Alliance is an influential network of progressive individual donors, foundations and labor unions that coordinates strategy and investments across elections, public policy, civic engagement, worker organizing and state-based power … [Read more...] about Democracy Alliance
Deer Creek Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Deer Creek Foundation’s primary purpose is to support organizations that promote government accountability, democratic institutions, civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. It also supports local public media in St. … [Read more...] about Deer Creek Foundation
Gruber Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Marin County-based Gruber Family Foundation supports education, women’s reproductive rights, journalism, film, visual arts and environmental conservation. IP TAKE: This progressive funder tends to provide ongoing support to … [Read more...] about Gruber Family Foundation
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation works broadly in the fields of social and environmental justice. It also runs an annual awards program for California-based artists and organizations working in the performing arts. Funding is mainly … [Read more...] about Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Good Pitch
OVERVIEW: Good Pitch is a collaboration between Doc Society, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Ford Foundation that runs participatory documentary filmmaking programs aimed at social change. IP TAKE: In most cases, Good Pitch … [Read more...] about Good Pitch
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation funds research and dissertation awards that address violence through the lenses of various academic disciplines. Grantmaking largely supports university-level social science and humanities … [Read more...] about Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
11th Hour Project
Ford Foundation
David and Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The David and Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation funds grantmaking related to health, community, environment and democracy. Western states are a geographic priority. IP TAKE: The David and Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation is a … [Read more...] about David and Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation
Sujal and Meera Patel Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Sujal and Meera Patel Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education and health in the Seattle area. IP TAKE: The Sujal and Meera Patel Foundation is a relatively small, selective funder that makes most of its grants to … [Read more...] about Sujal and Meera Patel 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
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
OVERVIEW: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity supports Jewish causes, education and human rights causes around the world. IP TAKE: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is singularly focused on issues important to its founder, the Holocaust … [Read more...] about Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Revson Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Revson Foundation works mainly in New York City and Israel. Its funding initiatives are urban affairs, Jewish life, biomedical research and education. IP TAKE: The Revson Foundation is a transparent but selective place-based funder. … [Read more...] about Revson Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit known for producing, hosting and maintaining some of the worlds most well-respected information sharing projects, makes grants to support information equity. This funder prioritizes projects that … [Read more...] about Wikimedia Foundation
Whiting Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Whiting Foundation supports grants for ambitious creative fiction projects in a wide variety of subject areas. These grants are awarded to emerging writers so they can fully devote themselves to their literary work. It also … [Read more...] about Whiting Foundation
Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation's New York City grantmaking focuses on education, health, arts and culture and more. IP TAKE: Driven by the descendants of media magnate S.I. Newhouse, this private foundation operates with a thin veil … [Read more...] about Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation mainly supports U.S.-based organizations and intermediaries that support work in Israel. Each year, the foundation also supports a handful of U.S. Jewish organizations and a select few nonprofits that are … [Read more...] about Amos and Ruth Wilnai Foundation
Women Photograph
OVERVIEW: Women Photograph supports women, gender nonconforming, transgender, genderqueer and nonbinary photographers. IP TAKE: Women Photograph seeks to support documentary photography from a diversity of gender perspectives. While it is an … [Read more...] about Women Photograph
Rice Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Rice Family Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, health, the environment, and the arts. IP TAKE: This is a substantial but difficult-to-access funder. The Rice Family Foundation states through its … [Read more...] about Rice Family 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
Dume Wolverine Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dume Wolverine Foundation supports education, health, international development and human rights, journalism and civic engagement, and animal and wildlife causes. Its recent grantmaking also includes conservation and selected human … [Read more...] about Dume Wolverine Foundation
International Documentary Association
OVERVIEW: The International Documentary Association funds grants that support documentary filmmakers with filmmaking, production and distribution costs. IP TAKE: The International Documentary Association is an important resource for independent … [Read more...] about International Documentary Association
Park Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Park Foundation makes grants for civic engagement, democracy, media, environmental concerns, higher education, racial justice and animals. Funding is national in scope, but the state of New York and Tompkins County are geographic … [Read more...] about Park Foundation
Inasmuch Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Inasmuch Foundation’s grantmaking mainly serves organizations operating in the state of Oklahoma, but grantmaking for journalism has gone to several national investigative journalism initiatives. IP TAKE: Inasmuch is doubling down on … [Read more...] about Inasmuch Foundation
Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources
OVERVIEW: IJNR provides grants to individual journalists covering environmental issues in North America. IP TAKE: The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources is an accessible funder for individual journalists pursuing reporting on … [Read more...] about Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources
International Center for Journalists
OVERVIEW: The International Center for Journalists runs fellowship, awards and accelerator programs with a strong focus on developing nations and investigative journalism. IP TAKE: The International Center for Journalists is better understood as a … [Read more...] about International Center for Journalists
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
OVERVIEW: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting supports journalism on underreported issues of broad impact in the U.S. and around the world. Recent areas of interest include the environment, technology, health and equity for marginalized people … [Read more...] about Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Patagonia
OVERVIEW: Clothing retailer Patagonia supports environmental conservation, marine and freshwater conservation, journalism and film via its international, corporate, retail and media grantmaking programs. IP TAKE: Patagonia remains a well-known … [Read more...] about Patagonia
