Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Hodson Trust
$54.7 million to Washington College and $54 million to Hood College to add to their endowments for both need-based and merit scholarships.
The Hodson Trust is in the process of dissolving. It has donated more than $150 million to each college since the trust’s formation in 1920 by Clarence Hodson, the founder of the consumer-finance company the Beneficial Corporation. Hodson was a member of Washington College’s Board of Visitors and Governors until his death in 1928. His wife, Lillian Brown Hodson, served on Hood College’s Board of Trustees from 1955 until her death in 1969.
Art Bridges Foundation
$40 million to 64 museums across the United States to expand free admission for visitors, outreach projects, and other programs to make museums more accessible to their surrounding communities.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$30 million to build a new platform for artificial intelligence that will provide African scientists and experts with tools to advance health and development in Africa.
UJA-Federation of New York
$22 million to 60 organizations that are providing emergency aid to people in Israel.
The grants include $2 million to the Jewish Agency to give direct cash support to the families of people who were hurt or killed during Hamas’s attacks.
Otto Bremer Trust
$17.4 million to 206 grantees for programs that addresss housing, food security and hunger, wellness and health care, literacy, youth programs, and work-force training in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Ford Foundation
$15 million to create the Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience, which will offer technical support to 10 organizations that promote democracy and civil society in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
The Ford Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.
Azrieli Foundation
$10 million to address emergency needs in Israel, including support for first responders, hospitals, medical equipment, trauma support, and other assistance for the victims of Hamas’s attacks.
Jefferies
$8.6 million to 10 organizations that are providing emergency humanitarian aid to people in Israel.
The investment bank’s largest grants of $2 million each went to United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom.
Google and Google.org
$8 million to nonprofit organizations that are delivering relief services to civilians in Israel and Gaza.
The total includes a company match of $1 million in donations from Google employees; $3 million to Magen David Adom, and ERAN to back emergency services in Israel; and $3 million to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, Save the Children, and Unicef to provide food, shelter, and psychological support for people in Gaza.
Cooperative Assistance Fund
$6.3 million to Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs in an unrestricted grant.
Wayne Duddlesten Foundation
$5 million to the University of Houston to establish the Wayne B. Duddlesten Free Enterprise Institute at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, which will support student entrepreneurs with ideas for new businesses.
Wayne Duddlesten, a graduate of the university, developed commercial real estate across the United States and owned a general contracting firm in Houston. He was also the former part-owner of the Houston Rockets professional basketball team, after buying the team and transferring it from San Diego in 1971. Duddlesten died in 2010 at the age of 80.
Blackstone Charitable Foundation
$4 million to American Friends of Magen David Adom, Friends of United Hatzalah, UJA-Federation of New York’s Israel Emergency Fund, and Save the Children to support humanitarian-relief efforts following Hamas’s attacks in Israel.
Each organization has received $1 million.
Salesforce
$3 million to deliver emergency aid, food, medical supplies, psychological support, and other services to victims of Hamas’s attacks in Israel.
The technology company gave $1 million to United Hatzalah, $1 million to Save the Children, and $1 million to the Association for Immediate Help for Holocaust Survivors.
Goldman Sachs
$2 million commitment to organizations that are providing humanitarian relief in Israel.
Insight Partners
$2 million commitment to aid efforts in Israel.
The venture-capital firm has given $1 million outright and will match up to $1 million in donations to a collection of charities that includes the American Friends of Leket Israel, American Friends of Magen David Adom, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Israeli Children’s Fund, Save the Children Federation, and the Alliance for Middle East Peace.
Mastercard
$2 million to humanitarian-aid organizations in the Middle East.
The commitment includes $1 million to Magen David Adom.
Walt Disney Company
$2 million to humanitarian organizations for emergency relief in Israel.
The media company gave $1 million to Magen David Adom and $1 million to a collection of other nonprofit organizations working in the region, with a focus on providing aid to children.
Comcast
$1.5 million to Save the Children Federation, Doctors Without Borders, Direct Relief, and American Friends of Magen David Adom for humanitarian efforts in the Middle East.
The telecommunications company will also match up to $500,000 in employee donations to those organizations.
Verizon Foundation
$1.5 million to humanitarian organizations that are leading relief efforts for civilian Israeli and Palestinian communities.
Bain Capital
$1 million for humanitarian-aid efforts in Israel.
The investment firm’s grant of $518,000 to Magen David Adom has been matched by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
$1 million to Chapman University to endow the Wescombe STEM Scholarship at the university’s Schmid College of Science and Technology.
Citi Foundation
$1 million pledge to Leket Israel to deliver emergency food supplies to Israelis in need.
Delta
$1 million to the American Red Cross for the International Committee of the Red Cross to back its humanitarian efforts for Israelis, Palestinians, and other people affected by the conflict in the region.
FOX Corporation
$1 million to United Jewish Appeal to add to its Israel Emergency Fund, which is providing direct cash assistance to the families of people who have been killed, wounded, or kidnapped during Hamas’s attacks in Israel.
Oracle
$1 million to Magen David Adom for emergency medical services in Israel.
Paramount
$1 million to Magen David Adom, NATAL: the Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center, UJA-Federation of New York, and Save the Children for humanitarian-relief efforts in Israel.
RBC Foundation USA
$1 million to UJA-Federation of New York, American Friends of Magen David Adom, and Save the Children to provide emergency medical services, care for children in shelters, relocation of refugees, and trauma counseling for people affected by the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The donation includes contributions from the Royal Bank of Canada and City National Bank.
Skydance
$1 million to the American Friends of Magen David Adom to provide emergency medical aid in Israel.
New Grant Opportunity
The JetBlue Foundation is accepting applications for grants worth up to $50,000 each to expand aviation-related education, science, technology, engineering, and math programs. Programs must serve students who come from the following underrepresented backgrounds in aviation: military veterans; women; people with African, Asian, or Latin heritage; people who identify as LGBTQ+; and people with neurodiversity or physical disabilities. Organizations must be located in a U.S. or international city where JetBlue flies. Applications are due October 30.
Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.
