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Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education, arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. So, while there are a few global and national options below, most are targeted to their communities.

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas.

Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. This means look first at foundations that are located in your city and state before searching across the country. As this list makes clear, many foundations tend to primarily fund organizations in their city and/or state. Visit Grantli to learn more about how I do my grant research and how your own organization can find the most appropriate funders and funding opportunities.

Funding Priority: Arts & Culture

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or inquiries; however, they do have a year-round open funding opportunity in the arts, specifically for documentary filmmakers. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects. Learn more at the link above.

Areas served: Worldwide

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences.

Areas served: Worldwide

The Shubert Foundation

The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States, providing general operating support. Although their primary emphasis is on theatre, with a secondary focus on dance, they also offer some awards to arts-related organizations and MFA programs that help support their growth and advancement.

Areas served: US

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Grants are made for scholarly exhibitions at museums, curatorial research, visual arts programming at artist-centered organizations, artist residencies and commissions, arts writing, and efforts to promote the health, welfare, and first amendment rights of artists.

Areas served: US

The Kresge Foundation

The Kresge Foundation works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing. The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning.

Areas served: US

Knight Foundation

The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. They fund artists and arts organizations that create, present, and provide access to artistic excellence and inspire engagement. Their investments focus on authenticity/inclusion, transformation, and the development of talent and organizations.

Areas served: San Jose, St. Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami

Highland Street Foundation

The Highland Street Foundation is committed to addressing the most pressing needs and concerns for children and families in Massachusetts and California. They provide access and opportunities in education, housing, mentorship, health care, environment, and the arts. While they do not accept unsolicited requests for funding, they will accept a letter of inquiry from organizations that align with their priorities.

Areas served: Massachusetts, California

Bernard Osher Foundation

The Bernard Osher Foundation accepts applications from a wide variety of arts and educational organizations, principally in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the state of Maine. Grantees over the years have included performing arts groups, literary programs, educational and environmental groups, and social service organizations.

Areas served: San Francisco (Greater Bay Area), Maine

Oregon Community Foundation

The Oregon Community Foundation’s mission is to improve the lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy. They steward millions of dollars in annual support for essential arts and arts education programs in communities across the state.

Areas served: Oregon

The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. Each year, the Center awards panel-adjudicated project grants in two areas—exhibitions and public interpretation, and performance—as well as 12 fellowships for individual artists. The Pew Charitable Trusts also provides support for special projects that enhance Philadelphia’s cultural vibrancy and improve the city’s broader economic outlook.

Areas served: Philadelphia/Pennsylvania

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

Nonprofit organizations working to improve the well-being of residents of Middle Tennessee* are eligible and are encouraged to apply for a discretionary grant. Grants will be awarded to nonprofit organizations across Middle Tennessee serving a wide range of causes, including: animal welfare, arts and humanities, conservation and preservation, environment, education, employment and training, health and human services, housing, and economic and community development.

Areas served: Tennessee (*specific counties only – listed on website)

Cleveland Foundation

The Cleveland Foundation is the community foundation serving Greater Cleveland, including Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga counties. It is made up of more than 1,300 funds representing individuals, families, organizations, and corporations. Its mission is to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come.

Areas served: Cleveland/Ohio

Rasmuson Foundation

The Rasmuson Foundation works to promote a better life for Alaskans. Grants are made to Alaska-based nonprofits, individual artists, and nonprofit leaders.

Areas served: Alaska

Moody Foundation

The Moody Foundation strengthens the future of Texas by investing in charitable projects that exhibit innovative ideas and make long-term improvement in Texas communities. They accept inquiry letters on an ongoing basis.

Areas served: Texas

The Brown Foundation

The Brown Foundation aims to support organizations dedicated to ambitious goals, excellence, and exceptional impact. The foundation supports arts organizations of all sizes—from the performing arts to museums, from flagship institutions to small community-based groups—that bring passion, energy, and creativity to life in Houston and beyond.

Areas served: Houston/Texas

Texas Instruments Foundation

The Texas Instruments Foundation supports arts programs that help make Dallas a vibrant place to live and work. This includes support for premier arts organizations that emphasize diversity in reach and programming, as well as for diverse groups that have the capability to become larger in reach and impact.

Areas served: Dallas/Texas

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation recognizes the importance of arts and cultural institutions in creating a vibrant community and attracting economic development. Their funding priorities are on the development of major Atlanta arts and cultural institutions as well as capital projects of arts and cultural institutions outside of Atlanta that promote community development in Georgia’s cities.

Areas served: Atlanta/Georgia

Howard Gilman Foundation

The Howard Gilman Foundation supports a cross-section of New York City-based performing arts organizations of varying structure, style, and budget size, including the following: professional performing arts organizations (dance companies, theatre companies, music ensembles), performing arts presenters, and service organizations that provide support for the performing arts and performing artists.

Areas served: New York City

Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation

The Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation focuses its philanthropic activities on the performing and visual arts, with the majority of grants being awarded to organizations in Kansas City. Funding is provided for general operations, program support, specific productions, fundraising events, and capital campaigns.

Areas served: Kansas City/Missouri

Daniel & Pamella DeVos Foundation

The Daniel & Pamella DeVos Foundation strives to make a positive impact in the greater Grand Rapids community. Art requests should provide opportunities for people to experience, understand, and appreciate how different kinds of artistic expression can enrich their lives. The Foundation considers programs that sustain arts and culture and increase participation in these areas: performing arts, visual arts and museums, arts education, and capital projects.

Areas served: Grand Rapids/Michigan

Albuquerque Community Foundation

The Albuquerque Community Foundation’s arts & culture grants focus on two primary funding areas: organizations and programs that provide access to arts and culture for low-income and/or underserved populations and organizations supporting Albuquerque’s creative economy through visual and performing arts. While their current arts & culture 2021 grant window has passed, they do accept rolling applications for their smaller ‘Need To Know’ grants.

Areas served: Albuquerque/New Mexico

The Ahmanson Foundation

The Ahmanson Foundation serves Los Angeles County by funding cultural projects in the arts and humanities. The types of capital support common to these areas include: construction and renovation projects, equipment and furnishings, program vehicles, technology (including infrastructure, hardware, and software), and program supplies.

Areas served: Los Angeles/California

RedLine Contemporary Art Center

The RedLine Contemporary Art Center fosters education and engagement between artists and communities. “Arts in Society” encourages cross-sector work through the arts by supporting the integration of arts and culture into multiple disciplines critical to the health and well-being of Coloradans. The program provides grants ranging in size from $5,000 to $35,000 for projects that utilize the arts as an integral element in promoting social justice and community welfare.

Areas served: Colorado

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Posted on 7 April 2022 by Guest Author

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According to The World Health Organization, of the 1 billion people around the world currently experiencing a mental disorder, more than 80% are without any form of quality, affordable care. Additionally, millions die every year from alcohol abuse and one person dies every 40 seconds by suicide. And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions.

The grantmakers and funders on this list seek to remedy this healthcare crisis in their communities and beyond. If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you.

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education, Arts & Culture, Environmental Conservation, and Youth Programs.

Grant Research Tip: If a deadline has passed for a funder’s grant opportunity, don’t despair. Once you’ve determined that your organization and the funder would make a good partnership, go ahead and create a Funder Profile form for them and add them to your list of potential funders. Wait until after their grant consideration window has passed and then reach out to start an introduction. It’s important to build up your list of potential funders not only with candidates who have current grant opportunities, but also with those who can be viable funding prospects in the future.

Visit Grantli to learn more tips on how to do the best grant research and how your organization can find even more funding opportunities.

Funding Priority: Mental Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of programs to help build a national culture of health.

Areas served: US

Hanley Family Foundation

The Hanley Family Foundation supports charitable organizations engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other forms of substance use disorder (SUD). They support organizations whose primary focus is to help individuals to recover from SUD.

Areas served: US

American Legion Child Welfare Foundation

The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation was developed as a repository of funds from individuals who wished to contribute to the betterment of children in the United States. Their foremost philanthropic priority is to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth by aiding progress in the field of child welfare through dissemination of knowledge about research, studies, surveys, projects, or by supporting programs and activities benefiting the welfare of children and youth.

Areas served: US

Cigna Foundation

Cigna Foundation’s charitable giving philosophy is part of their mission to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those they serve. Their “Healthier Kids For Our Future” grants focus on food insecurity and mental health. Their “Health and Well-being” grants will provide an opportunity for the applicant to choose from five different topics, one of which is for programs addressing mental and/or behavioral health conditions.

Areas served: US

RBC Foundation – USA

The mission of RBC Foundation – USA is to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business by supporting nonprofit organizations that make a positive difference and promote diversity. Health grants are exclusively directed to the RBC Youth Mental Well-being Project, focusing on programs that are helping youth and families access the right care at the right time.

Areas served: US

Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks funds programs that provide people with autism with social and educational experiences through their Norma and Malcolm Baker Recreation Grant programs. It supports programs demonstrating the ability to reach a wide age range of individuals on the spectrum within the following categories of service delivery: adult services, employment, physical fitness and sports, summer camps, and swimming and water safety.

Areas served: US

Autism Science Foundation

The Autism Science Foundation funds research that helps to understand the causes of autism and develop more effective treatments. They also fund projects that improve the dissemination of autism research which provide parents and other stakeholders with the latest developments in autism science.

Areas served: US

The David & Lura Lovell Foundation

The David and Lura Lovell Foundation is a family foundation established in 1994 that funds high-impact initiatives nationwide in four focus areas: mental health, integrative health and wellness, youth access to the arts, and gender parity. See their specific funding opportunity for Toledo, Ohio.

Areas served: US, Arizona, Ohio

Anthem Foundation

The Anthem Foundation funds specific public health-related initiatives that address disparities and social determinants that can positively affect conditions identified through their signature Healthy Generations program, including behavioral health. They’re focused on a holistic, preventive approach to issues of suicide, domestic violence/child abuse, and substance abuse—supporting programs designed to increase access to resources for behavioral health conditions and provide education about the importance of whole-person health.

Areas served: US (26 states)

Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism

The mission of the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism is to help people and families affected by autism live life to the fullest. Support will be provided for new initiatives and model projects that have the potential to improve the quality of everyday life for people and families affected by autism and that can be replicated by other organizations in order to have a greater impact on the autism community at large.

Areas served: Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Central Florida

O’Neill Foundation

The O’Neill Foundation strives to improve the health and well-being of the families in the communities they call home. They support organizations that address behavioral health, addiction, primary and preventative health, healthy lifestyles, and special needs populations.

Areas served: Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Vermont (specific counties in each)

Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation

The Tower Foundation is a family foundation that supports and collaborates with nonprofit organizations and community partners that share their mission of helping children, adolescents, and young people affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, and substance use disorders.

Areas served: New York (western), Massachusetts (eastern)

Daniel’s Fund

The Daniels Fund focuses on supporting highly effective and ethical nonprofit organizations that achieve significant results in the community. They support programs for people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, particularly prevention amongst youth and treatment and recovery.

Areas served: Colorado, Wyoming

The Colorado Health Foundation

The Colorado Health Foundation addresses the behavioral health needs of their state by fostering the social-emotional development of children, equipping youth and young adults with resiliency skills, and giving adults—with mental health disorders and substance abuse challenges—continued support on their recovery journey.

Areas served: Colorado

Caring For Colorado Foundation

Caring for Colorado works with communities to catalyze and accelerate change to improve the lives and health of Colorado’s children, youth, and families. They emphasize the integration of infant, child, and maternal mental health into programs serving families because it can profoundly affect child development.

Areas served: Colorado

Connecticut Health Foundation

The Connecticut Health Foundation envisions a Connecticut where everyone—regardless of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—can achieve optimal health. To make this a reality, they focus on four areas (coverage and access, improve care delivery, linking care to community, and advocacy and leadership) that are critical to ensuring that the next generation will not face the same persistent racial and ethnic health disparities as their parents.

Areas served: Connecticut

Endowment For Health

The Endowment for Health works to improve health and reduce the burden of illness for the people of New Hampshire. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. They continue to proactively invest in leadership and advocacy, and public policy change within our children’s behavioral health systems.

Areas served: New Hampshire

Maine Health Access Foundation

The Maine Health Access Foundation is the state’s largest private nonprofit health care foundation dedicated to promoting access to quality health care and improving health. They offer responsive grant opportunities, a discretionary grants program for small, discrete projects, and meeting support grants for local and statewide meetings.

Areas served: Maine

California Healthcare Foundation

The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California. CHCF works to improve systems of behavioral health care and to focus on integrating mental health, substance use, and physical health services to achieve the best outcomes for Californians with low incomes.

Areas served: California

The New York Community Trust

The New York Community Trust connects past, present, and future generous New Yorkers with vital nonprofits working to make a healthy, equitable, and thriving community for all. One of their funding priorities focuses on improving healthcare, addressing mental health and substance abuse, and supporting biomedical research.

Areas served: New York (NYC, Long Island, Westchester)

The Meadows Foundation

They are a private family foundation on a mission to improve the quality and circumstances of life for the people of Texas. Mental health areas they support include: integration of services into primary care settings, systemwide approaches that identify and treat depression using validated measures that track symptoms and outcomes, and research and advocacy to increase access to effective mental health care

Areas served: Texas

Hogg Foundation For Mental Health

The Hogg Foundation is committed to supporting organizations and individuals making meaningful improvements for the mental health of Texans. They invest in programs, policy analysis, research and education through grants, scholarships, and fellowships to transform how communities promote mental health in everyday life.

Areas served: Texas

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Posted on 7 April 2022 by Guest Author

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As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women.

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals.

Amber Grant Foundation

This foundation was set up to honor the memory of Amber Wigdahl, who died at just 19 years old—before realizing her business dreams. WomensNet, which founded the Amber Grant Foundation, gives away at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money, as well as a year-end grant of $25,000. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

Areas served: US & Canada

Ms. Foundation For Women

The mission of Ms. Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all. This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health.

Areas served: US

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

Areas served: US (primarily Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, & New Orleans), Mexico, Haiti

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Grants support organizations that serve a range of populations, including older adults, women at risk and their children, people with disabilities, and veterans, as well as the Jewish community.

Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawaiʻi, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities)

100 Women Charitable Foundation

The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community. They fund nonprofit organizations that support Education, Family, and Health & Wellness.

Areas served: Santa Clara or San Mateo counties of the San Francisco bay area

Chicago Foundation For Women

This foundation envisions a world in which all women and girls have the opportunity to thrive in safe, just, and healthy communities. They offer grants that range from $15,000 to $150,000 and support organizations within the Chicago metropolitan area (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, and Will counties). Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. They fund organizations and programs in economic security, freedom from violence, and health.

Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area

New Venture Fund

The New Venture Fund for Global Policy and Advocacy (NVF for GPA) advances global health and development by providing targeted and timely awards for innovative, high-impact policy, advocacy, and communications projects that promote more and better resources, effective policies, and greater visibility for issues critical to global health and development. NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH).

Areas served: US and Worldwide

The California Wellness Foundation

The vision of this foundation is for every resident of California to enjoy good health and experience wellness. Its mission is to protect and improve the health and wellness of the people of California by increasing access to health care, quality education, good jobs, healthy environments, and safe neighborhoods.

Areas served: California

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

This foundation focuses on Civil Society, Education, Environment and the Flint Area.The Foundation seeks to fulfill its mission of supporting efforts that promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society.

Areas served: US with a focus on the Great Lakes region

The Patrina Foundation

This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities.

Areas served: New York metropolitan area and surrounding counties

AAUW

Their mission is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. Their Community Action Grants provide funding to individuals, AAUW branches, and AAUW state organizations, as well as community-based nonprofits for innovative programs that promote education and equity through projects focused on encouraging girls to select, before entering college, the physical sciences or engineering as a career.

Areas served: US

Boulware Foundation

This foundation is committed to expanding economic opportunities for women and girls through education, vocational training, and entrepreneurship with the goal of sustainable financial independence. Their funding priorities focus on the following areas of interest: financial literacy, workforce development, micro finance, entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and formal education.

Areas served: Texas-based organizations

Vermont Women’s Fund

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story.

Areas served: Vermont

eWomen Foundation

This foundation is dedicated to supporting the financial and emotional health of women and girls in need. Their unique model of local fundraising and local giving through their chapters engages thousands of women across North America to give generously in support of their mission.

Areas served: US

Global Fund For Women

This funder leverages deeply-rooted relationships and technical expertise to equip movements with flexible financing and resources to maximize their impact, shifting power towards women, girls, and all marginalized people worldwide.

Areas served: Outside US

Madre

Madre is an international women’s human rights organization that funds visionary, innovative, and intersectional grassroots strategies that meet immediate needs and create lasting change. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies.

Areas served: Worldwide

Mama Cash

Mama Cash supports women, girls, and trans people and intersex people who fight for their rights. Each year, Mama Cash supports over 100 women’s, girls’, trans and intersex rights groups that are working to change the world.

Areas served: Worldwide

The Moriah Fund

The Moriah Fund is dedicated to helping the disadvantaged, promoting democracy, and championing women’s rights and reproductive health.

Areas served: Worldwide

Oak Foundation

Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.

Areas served: Worldwide

Texas Women’s Foundation

Texas Women’s Foundation promotes women’s philanthropy and raises money to support community programs that help women and girls realize their full potential. They partner with grantees to provide responsive, community-based programming that advances economic and leadership opportunities for women, girls, and families to build stronger, more equitable communities for all.

Areas served: Texas

The Hadassah Foundation

This foundation invests in social change to empower girls and women. They accomplish their goals through grantmaking with a gender lens, supporting organizations that build upon the unique strengths, perspectives, and experiences of women and girls.

Areas served: US and Israel

Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous Peoples

The primary purpose of their work is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations, while advancing the effectiveness of Indigenous-led work.

Areas served: Native organizations only

Mary’s Pence

They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change. They fund grassroots organizations that are women-led and community centered, working to enact long-term sustainable change at the community level, and focused on social justice actions.

Areas served: US

Wallace Global Fund

The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to promote an informed and engaged citizenry, to fight injustice, and to protect the diversity of nature and the natural systems upon which all life depends. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. They will consider significant local or regional initiatives with the potential to leverage broader national or global impact. Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support.

Areas served: Worldwide

The New York Women’s Foundation

The New York Women’s Foundation provides funds to organizations and programs within the five boroughs of New York City that have community-led solutions to propel all women, girls, and gender non-conforming individuals living at/below the poverty level towards long-term economic security.

Areas served: New York City

Kentucky Foundation For Women

The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Their Art Meets Activism grant supports feminist artists and organizations in Kentucky to engage individuals and communities in artmaking that directly advances positive social change.

Areas served: Kentucky

The Iowa Women’s Foundation

The Iowa Women’s Foundation is committed to improving the lives of Iowa’s women and girls. This foundation uses research to uncover the biggest barriers to women’s success as well as their greatest needs, and they invest their passion and resources accordingly.

Areas served: Iowa

Valentine Foundation

The Valentine Foundation is a charitable foundation committed to funding organizations and programs that produce significant change in the social, economic, and political systems and institutions that impact the lives of women and girls in order to make those lives more equitable.

Areas served: Greater Philadelphia

Third Wave Foundation

Third Wave funds cutting-edge youth-led activism and has supported emerging organizations that lack access to philanthropy. They believe that young women, queer, and trans youth are vital to all movements for justice. The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund for youth-led gender justice activism, action, and community mobilization.

Areas served: US

Allen P. and Josephine B. Green Foundation

This foundation was established to serve central Missouri in the following areas: human and social service programs providing direct services to people in need, youth development programs, innovative developmental and educational programs for children, health and hospitals (funding for research projects is not included in this priority), religious institutions with an emphasis on projects that support community churches, and the provision of social services.

Areas served: Central Missouri

Wyoming Women’s Foundation

The mission of the Wyoming Women’s Foundation is to invest in the economic self-sufficiency of women and opportunities for girls in Wyoming. The foundation seeks submissions designed with the specific purpose of promoting long-term economic self-sufficiency of women and opportunities for girls living within the state of Wyoming.

Areas served: Wyoming

For more information on the grant search process, I’ve created a resource called “The Grant Hunt Simplified.” This free course will teach you the most efficient way to search for grants and exactly how to identify funders who best align with your own organization.

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