Here are notable new grant awards specifically for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
Wells Fargo Foundation
$175 million to make donations toward food, shelter, small business, and housing stability, as well as to provide help to public-health organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. Among the grants is $1 million to Feeding America to support its 200 partnering food banks nationwide.
Sony
$100 million to create the Sony Global Relief Fund for Covid-19, which will support people and organizations around the world who are affected by the coronavirus. The electronics manufacturer gave $10 million to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a joint project of the United Nations Foundation and the World Health Organization. Other recipients include Médecins Sans Frontières, Unicef, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Visa Foundation
$70 million pledge to support charities and nongovernmental organizations following the spread of Covid-19. Of the pledge, $10 million is designated for immediate emergency relief through frontline charitable organizations working in public health and food relief worldwide. A pledge of $60 million over five years will be doled out in grants to nongovernmental organizations that support small businesses and entrepreneurs, with a focus on women’s economic development. The bank has pledged an additional $140 million to investment groups making loans to small and micro businesses.
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
$50 million pledge to support nonprofit organizations across New York State to address health-related needs resulting from Covid-19.
UnitedHealth Group
$50 million to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and support frontline health-care workers, states with the greatest spread of infection, seniors, and people experiencing food insecurity or homelessness. So far, the United Health Foundation has pledged $2.5 million to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, $1.5 million to Feeding America, and $1 million to Meals on Wheels America.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
$50 million to groups that provide food, housing, and cash to people hardest hit by the coronavirus epidemic.
Lilly Endowment
$48.5 million to help nonprofit groups, particularly those in Indiana, respond to the Covid-19 crisis. Indiana United Ways has received $30 million to distribute resources through its statewide network of local United Ways. A separate grant of $3.5 million went to United Way of Central Indiana to meet basic needs of people living in the five counties it serves outside Marion County. Additionally, the foundation gave the Salvation Army $15 million for its work both nationally and focused in Indiana.
PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation
$45 million commitment to help people and communities worldwide contend with the coronavirus pandemic. In North America, the soft-drink company has promised $15.8 million to focus primarily on increasing access to food for out-of-school children in the United States.
AbbVie
$35 million to International Medical Corps, Direct Relief, Feeding America, and other nonprofit partners to support their Covid-19 relief efforts.
PNC Financial Services Group
$30 million for coronavirus-relief programs, primarily those providing basic-needs and economic-relief programs to people in the areas where the bank operates. Among the first grants awarded is $1 million to the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania to create the Students and Families Food Relief Fund.
James Irvine Foundation
$22 million pledge to give additional support to its grantees in 2020, particularly those that aid low-income workers in California.
Missouri Foundation for Health
$15 million commitment to organizations in Missouri providing services and support during the coronavirus pandemic. The foundation has already given $7 million to federally qualified health centers and community mental-health centers across the state.
William Penn Foundation
$11.6 million in emergency coronavirus grant making. Of the total, $6.6 million id designated for general operating support grants for arts and culture organizations. Another $5 million will go to the Philadelphia Emergency Fund for Stabilization of Early Education.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$10.3 million for its grantees that are working to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 in the eight cities where the foundation has offices, and another 18 communities beyond.
Bank of America
$10 million pledge to make grants to nonprofit community development financial institutions.
Cognizant
$10 million commitment to strengthen public-health systems, education groups, and work-force organizations as they contend with the Covid-19 outbreak, particularly in the United States and India.
J. Paul Getty Trust
$10 million to create a Covid-19 relief fund that will support nonprofit museums and visual-arts organizations in Los Angeles throughout the coronavirus crisis. The fund, which will be administered by the California Community Foundation, will provide emergency operating support and recovery grants worth between $25,000 and $200,000 each to small and midsize organizations within Los Angeles County, beginning later this month.
Harold Grinspoon Foundation
$10 million to JCamp 180 to provide emergency grants to its affiliated nonprofit Jewish overnight camps that may be forced to close this summer because of the pandemic.
Islamic Relief
$10 million in emergency assistance to health organizations in more than 20 countries at high risk of spreading the coronavirus.
Live Nation
$10 million partial challenge grant to create Crew Nation, a fund to support concert-crew members in the music industry who are out of work because of the pandemic. The production company has seeded it with $5 million and will offer a 1:1 match on $5 million in donations to the fund.
Greater Atlanta Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund
$8.7 million in the first three rounds of grant making to organizations in the Atlanta region. Initial grants included $750,000 to the Atlanta Community Food Bank and $500,000 to the YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta. This fund is a joint project of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and United Way of Greater Atlanta.
Caterpillar Foundation
$8.5 million to nonprofit groups involved in coronavirus-relief efforts. The grantees include the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund; King Baudouin Foundation Fund for Italy; Global Foodbanking Network Global Fund; Feeding America; Boys & Girls Clubs of America; and Illinois Covid-19 Response Fund.
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
$6.3 million in emergency grants to support science, human services, and arts and culture nonprofit groups in Arizona’s Maricopa County during the outbreak of Covid-19. Among the grants is $2 million to Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute to expand its automated, rapid diagnostic testing that aims to mitigate the spread and potential reoccurrence of the virus.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$5 million to support Covid-19 emergency-relief efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in San Mateo County, where the foundation is based. Of this, $1 million has gone to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Covid-19 Regional Response Fund.
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
$5 million over three years to aid arts organizations and artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. So far the foundation has given $500,000 to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’s Covid-19 Relief Fund, which is giving financial assistance to artists whose performances and exhibitions this year have been canceled. The Artist Relief Fund has received another $500,000 to offer cash grants directly to artists with financial hardship.
Intel Foundation
$4 million to community foundations and organizations that are focused on food security, shelter, medical equipment, and small-business support during the coronavirus outbreak. The technology company is also matching $2 million in giving from its U.S. employees in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas, as well as international employees in Costa Rica, India, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, and Vietnam.
Kroger Co. Zero Hunger/Zero Waste Foundation
$3 million pledge to Feeding America and No Kid Hungry to distribute food to communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The two charities will share the grocery chain’s gift equally.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
$2.8 million to support its grantees as well as small businesses, entrepreneurs, and schools in the Kansas City region in response to the coronavirus crisis. The total includes $500,000 in general community support through the joint Kansas City Regional Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund, and $500,000 to the KC Covid-19 Small Business Relief Fund.
Duke Endowment
$2.5 million to support people in the Carolinas who are affected by the coronavirus crisis. Half the gift has gone to the North Carolina Healthcare Foundation. In South Carolina, the remaining $1.25 million was awarded to One SC, a fund created at Central Carolina Community Foundation in 2015 to respond to natural disasters.
First Horizon Foundation
$2.5 million pledge to nonprofit organizations that provide food, educational, and emergency financial assistance to people in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Allergan Foundation
$2 million to more than 70 organizations that are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic in communities located in California, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Ohio, Florida, and also internationally.
Astellas Pharma US and the Astellas Global Health Foundation
$2 million to Americares, the American Red Cross, Direct Relief, and other nonprofit partners to meet the demand for resources to help patients, health-care workers, and first responders on the Covid-19 front lines.
Augusta National Golf Club
$2 million to coronavirus relief in Georgia. The golf club is giving $1 million to the Covid-19 CSRA Emergency Fund, a project by the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area and the United Way of the CSRA, and another $1 million to Augusta University to expand testing in the region.
Clara Lionel Foundation and the Shawn Carter Foundation
$2 million to be shared among the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, the Fund for Public Schools (NYC), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the New York Immigration Coalition. The rapper Jay Z established the Shawn Carter Foundation, and the Clara Lionel Foundation was created by the singer Rihanna to raise money for charitable causes.
Coca-Cola Foundation
$2 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Covid-19 Response Fund. The grant is directed to be used in areas of the United States that have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, including Northern California, Washington State, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
Exelon Foundation
$2 million to the Illinois Covid-19 Response Fund to offer emergency financial assistance to residents of the state.
Thoma Bravo
$2 million to Spark SF Public Schools to offer distance-learning options and distribute free meals to children in need who are experiencing school closure.
Vanguard
$2 million to the Philadelphia Emergency Fund for Stabilization of Early Education. The grant is coming through the banking company’s Strong Start for Kids Program.
Atmos Energy/Robert W. Best Charitable Giving Fund
$1.5 million pledge to local food banks, including the North Texas Food Bank and CitySquare.
John M. Belk Endowment
$1 million to the Covid-19 Response Fund at the Foundation for the Carolinas and United Way of Central Carolinas.
Center for Disaster Philanthropy
$1 million from its Covid-19 Response Fund to Americares, Feeding America, Good360, Healthcare Ready, Meals on Wheels America, and the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics.
Dutch Bros Foundation
$1 million to help first responders, community groups, and food-security organizations, including $500,000 to the United Way’s Safety Net fund. The coffee company has also pledged 100 percent of its April profits to #FirstRespondersFirst.
Jewish Communal Fund
$1 million in coronavirus-related grants through the JCF Special Gifts Fund. The biggest grant was $500,000 to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty to provide emergency food delivery for low-income seniors in New York.
Kimberly-Clark
$1 million to the United Way’s Covid-19 Community Response and Recovery Fund. The company is also donating 5 million of its Huggies brand of diapers to the National Diaper Bank Network.
Longwood Foundation
$1 million to Delaware’s Covid-19 Strategic Response Fund.
Morgridge Family Foundation
$1 million in Covid-19 emergency grants, including $100,000 each to Second Harvest Food Bank, in Orlando, Fla.; the Boys & Girls Club of St. Lucie County, in St. Lucie, Fla.; and Adams 12 Five Star Schools, in Thornton, Colo.
Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
$1 million pledge to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
Conrad Prebys Foundation
$1 million challenge grant to Scripps Health to provide critical supplies for frontline medical workers.
Tiffany & Co. Foundation
$1 million commitment for coronavirus-relief efforts. The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund has received $750,000 of the pledge, and the remaining $250,000 will go to the New York Community Trust’s NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund.
Waldron Charitable Fund
$1 million to 47 organizations in rapid-response grants to meet the needs of children experiencing school closures.
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