Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Charles E. Lakin Foundation
$165 million to the Community Foundation for Western Iowa for programs to enhance housing, childcare, education, and community development for residents of the region.
Barr Foundation
$34.5 million to 92 community-based organizations across Massachusetts that advance art and culture, climate justice, literacy and leadership development for students, and basic needs for residents.
Duke Endowment
$15 million commitment to meet immediate relief needs in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina following Hurricane Helene.
Thus far, the foundation has given $5 million to the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina’s Emergency and Disaster Response Fund. Another $2.5 million has gone to the Central Carolina Community Foundation’s One SC Fund.
Harvest Foundation
$12 million to the Martinsville-Henry County Family YMCA to help build a new facility for the organization, which will include a fitness center and a childcare facility for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in Martinsville, Va.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
$10 million to its Eliminating Lead Poisoning Innovation Fund to improve the detection and mitigation of lead exposure, especially in marginalized low- and middle-income communities.
Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation
$8.5 million through its Community Impact and Signature Impact Programs to more than 360 nonprofit organizations across the United States that support children facing hunger or medical treatment for serious illnesses.
Burton D. Morgan Foundation
$3.2 million to 15 organizations to support entrepreneurship in northeast Ohio.
Emergency Assistance Foundation
$3 million through its People First Fund for Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which is awarding direct cash grants to people recovering from the back-to-back hurricanes that have hit the Southeast.
KFC
$2.7 million over three years to Giving Kitchen to expand the nonprofit’s program that connects food-service workers to resources in mental health, housing and utilities, family and social services, financial services, health and wellness, legal and immigration aid, employment, and recovery from substance abuse.
Bezos Earth Fund
$2 million to Apolitical to expand its skills training on addressing climate change to 12 million public servants in countries around the world.
Resolution Project
$2 million to Enactus Global to combine these two youth leadership and social-entrepreneurship groups, which will continue operations as Enactus Global.
Hudson-Webber Foundation
$1.3 million to six nonprofits that enhance the arts, culture, and community and economic development in the Detroit metropolitan area.
The recipients are BasBlue, the Council of Michigan Foundations, the Detroit Opera, the Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners Detroit, and the Neighborhood Vitality Index.
Dollar General
$1.2 million to the American Red Cross to support its response and recovery efforts following Hurricanes Helene and Milton across the Southeast.
Perenchio Foundation
$1.2 million over three years to the Long Beach Opera for general operating support. The grant is unrestricted.
Alfred E. Mann Charities
$1 million to Los Angeles Jewish Health to support the newest location of its Brandman Centers for Senior Care in the city’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood.
Amplify Her Foundation
$1 million to 23 organizations that support the social and economic empowerment of women and girls from marginalized communities in New York City.
Jane Henson Foundation
$1 million to the Museum of the Moving Image for the Jane Henson Amphitheater and continue the Jim Henson Exhibition, both at the museum and to develop an international touring exhibition on the late puppeteer’s work.
New Grant Opportunity
The Truist Foundation and MIT Solve are accepting proposals through the Inspire Awards Challenge, which will award grants to nonprofit organizations that are offering skills training and career navigation for workers in the middle or late stages of their careers. The awards include $250,000 for first place, $150,000 for second place, and additional grants worth $25,000 each to runners-up. One additional $75,000 prize will be awarded to a finalist, selected by audience voting during a live pitch event and ceremony. Proposals are due January 8.
Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.
