Our Spring grant cycle is well underway and we are no longer accepting new applications in Arts & Culture.  Our 2022 Fall grant cycle is now open, we are accepting LOIs in the area of Education (internship opportunities).  Our Health & Human Services grants will be made by invitation only, no LOIs are being accepted in this area of interest.  

Later this year the foundation will be transitioning to the Foundant grants management system.  This means that you will be submitting LOIs and grant proposals differently.  We are a late adopter of Foundant so most of you are already familiar with the system.  It's a learning curve for us so please bear with us.  Our official "go live" date is tentatively scheduled for late July after our Education LOI deadline.  Our website will be updated when the new system is ready for your use.  In the meantime, it's business as usual.

Stay healthy and please feel free to reach out with questions.

Our grants for 2019 have all been awarded, you will find a full list of recipients on our website.  Starting in 2020, we will be awarding grants in the area of Environment in our Spring grant cycle and our grants in Education will be awarded in our Fall grant cycle.  This shift or swap of focuses between the grant cycles allows our internship grantees the ability to start advertising their paid internships earlier.  We are also changing our focus slightly in the Health & Human Services category so stay tuned for an update on our website before the end of this year.

On November 2nd, the board of directors met and awarded a total of $90,000 to nonprofits in the areas of Environment and Health & Human Services.  For the first time in our history, we made multi-year commitments (two-year commitments) to all of our applicants in the Environment focus area.  Our website will be updated soon with a list of nonprofits who received grants in this particular cycle.

We have updated our website to implement a simpler grant application process for nonprofits who have received grants from us in recent years.  The good news is that if you have received a grant from us recently then you may not need to submit a grant proposal but instead you will be asked to submit short answers to a questionnaire.  Our LOI process is generally the same.  Please don't hesitate to send us questions if something isn't clear or send us feedback if something on our website isn't working properly, we'll take your input and fix issues as soon as possible!