Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Cummings Foundation
$30 million to 150 nonprofit groups in the Boston metropolitan area that work in the areas of education, health care, human services, and social justice.
This year, 125 of the grantees were given three-year awards of up to $300,000 each. The remaining 25 grant winners were awarded up to $1 million each over 10 years.
Marin Community Foundation
$30 million over three years through its new Community Power Initiative, which will award multiyear general operating support to organizations that serve the residents of California’s Marin County.
In this first round, more than 80 organizations will share $10 million in grants.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
$26 million across seven grants to organizations around the world.
The largest grant, $10 million, went to Marywood University to enable Catholic nuns in Africa to pursue higher education.
The Hilton Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Kapor Foundation, Omidyar Network, and San Francisco Foundation
$25 million commitment to organizations that will advance racial equity in the application of artificial intelligence across different industries in California.
Veale Foundation
$20 million commitment to Case Western Reserve University to build a new quad gateway to the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building.
Elevance Health Foundation
$13.1 million to 35 nonprofit organizations for programs to address substance use disorder through expanding access to care, improving quality of treatment, and advancing prevention and early intervention for young people.
A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
$10 million to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Engineering to establish the Clark Legacy Endowed Scholarships for first-time, first-year students, and to support the Pathways Scholarships for transfer students to the historically Black university.
Google.org
$10 million to establish the first 10 Google Cybersecurity Clinics, which will aim to develop a work-force pipeline in cybersecurity across the United States. Each clinic will receive $1 million.
Google.org originally pledged $20 million to the Google Cybersecurity Clinics Fund last year, and has now increased that commitment to $25 million.
JPMorgan Chase
$8.45 million commitment to nonprofit organizations and programs that drive economic and community development and increase access to affordable homeownership in Baltimore.
In addition, the financial firm has committed $1 million to the Baltimore Civic Fund, matched with $1 million from the City of Baltimore, to support social entrepreneurs and advance inclusion in the city’s economic growth.
Houston Methodist
$4.5 million to 44 nonprofit organizations through the Houston Methodist Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Grant Program, which advances equity in access to health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, military veterans, older people, LGBTQ+ people, those experiencing homelessness, youths in foster care, and other marginalized communities.
Prentice Farrar and Alline Ford Brown Foundation
$2.5 million to Texas Tech University’s College of Education to establish the Prentice Farrar and Alline Ford Brown Foundation Chair of Rural Education.
Prentice Brown, who died in 1974, discovered several of the largest oil fields in Texas.
Rotary International
$2 million to Partners for Water Access and Better Harvests in India for efforts to help increase the income of 60,000 Indian farmers by increasing access to groundwater and expanding cultivation areas of wheat, rice, and other food staples.
Mellon Foundation
$1 million to the Classical Theatre of Harlem for programs in economic development and community building related to the theater’s free summer production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Young Futures
$1 million to 10 nonprofit groups through its Lonely Hearts Club program to support early-stage organizations that are working to increase social connections and reduce loneliness among young people.
Apollo Opportunity Foundation
$1 million to the National Education Equity Lab to expand its programs that enable high-school students from marginalized communities to take classes that grant course credit at top colleges and universities, and access career opportunities in business, data science, and finance.
New Grant Opportunity
Charter Communications is accepting applications for its Spectrum Digital Education grants program. This year, the program will award a total of $1 million in grants worth up to $50,000 each to nonprofit organizations that work with families or older adults to expand access to internet connectivity tools, education, and resources in the communities in 41 states where the company does business. Applications are due June 26.
Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.
