Here are notable new grant awards specifically for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
KaJ Labs
$100 million pledge for the Seattle technology company’s coronavirus giving in the United States and East Africa. Recipients include the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a joint project of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Foundation; the American National Red Cross’s Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma Program and its Virtual Resiliency Workshop for members of the military; the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance; Feed the Children; the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty; NAACP; 100 Black Men; Black Girls Code; and the Committee for Hispanic Families and Children.
Google.org
$50 million additional commitment for continuing Covid-19 relief efforts. This new pledge doubles what the technology giant has already given for economic relief and recovery, health and science, and distance learning.
Jewish United Fund
$26 million to create its Covid‑19 Initiative to provide emergency financial assistance to people in need in Chicago; expand access to food and meals; enhance health care staffing and personal protective equipment at Mt. Sinai Hospital as well as residential programs that serve older people and those with disabilities; and give urgent operating support to local Jewish human-services groups and educational agencies. The Jewish United Fund pulled money from its endowment and annual campaign for this new grant-making program.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$10 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for its Covid-19 relief efforts across the San Francisco Bay Area. (The Hewlett Foundation is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
Merck and the Merck Foundation
$10 million commitment in additional support of Covid-19 relief efforts to address health disparities and inequality among patients and communities. The pharmaceutical company announced the pledge in support of #GivingTuesdayNow.
The Studio @ Blue Meridian, the Valhalla Charitable Foundation, and the Overdeck Family Foundation
$9 million to Waterford.org, a national education nonprofit group, to expand its kindergarten-readiness offerings and create the Waterford Upstart Summer Learning Path, a summer program for children who have been out of school since March.
Pew Charitable Trusts
$6.8 million over three years to 38 Philadelphia-area nonprofit groups that provide critical services to some of the region’s most vulnerable people, including those experiencing homelessness, mental-health issues, and extended unemployment.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$6.4 million to the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in Australia, to expand a clinical trial of the bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine and evaluate its effectiveness in providing protection against Covid-19.
Greater Atlanta Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Fund
$5.3 million to 245 nonprofit groups in its sixth round of funding. This fund is a project of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and United Way of Greater Atlanta; it has so far given a total of $17.3 million to 320 organizations in the region.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
$5 million in additional aid to existing grantees. The foundation has dedicated an extra $1 million to each of the following five program areas: Catholic sisters; foster youth; safe water; hospitality workforce development; and young children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Texas Instruments Foundation
$5 million to the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas for immediate and long-term needs in education, income, and health outcomes in North Texas as the region looks to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
$3 million to create a new fund to aid organizations working at the intersection of arts and health care, and to make grants to address both the immediate and long-term impacts of the pandemic. Among the grants is $500,000 to New York City Health + Hospitals to provide food and essential supplies for hospital staff members working in intensive care and emergency-room units, and to plan for mental-health services for those employees who are traumatized by their experiences working during the pandemic.
Imaginable Futures
$3 million to give immediate support for students, educators, and child-care providers in the United States, Latin America, and Africa who have been hit hard by the pandemic. Among the grants are $500,000 to Common Sense Media’s Wide Open Schools and $500,000 to Home Grown’s Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund. Imaginable Futures was the education program of the Omidyar Network until it became a separate entity in January.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
$2.7 million to nonprofit organizations for Covid-19 relief efforts in the area surrounding Sarasota, Fla.
Denver Foundation
$2.3 million to 94 nonprofit organizations across Colorado that are helping state residents contend with the economic and health effects of the Covid-19 crisis. Donors with funds at the foundation have directed an additional $16.8 million in donations for pandemic relief.
Google.org and Robin Hood
$2 million for the New York GiveDirectly Covid-19 Relief Fund, which will give direct financial assistance to 2,000 families in the city.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation
$1.9 million commitment to Virginia organizations that support local communities and families on the pandemic front lines.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$1.8 million in emergency grants to 16 historically black colleges and universities to help them prepare their students for the upcoming academic year. The grants will address technology needs, financial strain on students due to tuition or residential bills, essential travel between home and campus, and other necessities.
Avangrid Foundation
$1.5 million to nonprofit partners and community-relief funds, including $150,000 to Feeding America, and $100,000 each to the American Red Cross, Americares, and Meals on Wheels America.
Moody Foundation
$1.5 million in additional grant support to its grantees for Covid-19 relief. Of the new total, $675,000 has gone to its Dallas-area partners to support both immediate basic needs and first-responder assistance. Another $500,000 has been dedicated to its Central Texas grantees in Austin, Georgetown, Round Rock, Fredericksburg, San Marcos, and Marfa. Finally, $300,000 has been paid to groups in Galveston County.
Reinsurance Group of America and the RGA Foundation
$1.5 million pledge for Covid-19 relief efforts around the world. The grantees include Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, the SSM Health Foundation, the American Red Cross, and the St. Louis Community Foundation Gateway Resilience Fund and Covid-19 Regional Response Fund.
American Heart Association
$1.2 million to 12 research teams, coordinated by the Cleveland Clinic, that are studying the cardiac and neurological effects of the novel coronavirus.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$1.2 million to DonorsChoose to give financial support to teachers who are designing distance-learning lesson plans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cisco Systems
$1 million to the First Responders Children’s Foundation for its Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund.
CVS Health
$1 million in grants to “flatten the second curve” of mental-health crises during the pandemic. Among the projects receiving grants are Americares’ Covid-19 Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Project, Give an Hour’s outpatient counseling services for hospital employees, and a Crisis Text Line project to offer telehealth counseling to essential workers and frontline health-care professionals.
Mastercard and PepsiCo
$1 million to create the Westchester Strong with Healthcare Heroes fund, which will provide immediate help to White Plains Hospital and support its staff on the frontlines of the pandemic.
Morgridge Family Foundation
$1 million in a second round of emergency relief funding that will be shared among 14 community foundations and United Way partners around the United States.
Novartis
$1 million to the International Rescue Committee for its Covid-19 response efforts in Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
$1 million to the Deaconess Foundation for its Covid-19 Equitable Relief and Recovery Fund, which will provide aid to nonprofit groups with black leaders working in social services and social change in the St. Louis region.
Suncoast Credit Union
$1 million pledge to provide economic relief to people in Florida who have been affected by Covid-19.
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
$1 million in additional emergency grant funding to nonprofit groups in Israel that are addressing the Covid-19 crisis.
Other Grant Making
Minnesota Masonic Charities
$35 million to the University of Minnesota to create and name the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain.
William K. Warren Foundation
$20 million to Vanderbilt University to establish the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, which will advance medical research on brain disorders.
Melanoma Research Alliance
$10.9 million for 26 projects at 23 research institutions, in recognition of Melanoma Awareness Month.
Heinz Endowments
$6.7 million for racial-equity projects in the Pittsburgh region, including $500,000 to the Forbes Fund for its human-resources efforts to promote inclusive work cultures at nonprofit groups. (The Heinz Endowments is a financial supporter of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.)
American Heart Association
$2.5 million to Stanford Medicine’s Center for Digital Health to study how digital technology can be used to improve cardiovascular health.
5 for the Fight
$1.5 million to the Huntsman Cancer Institute to create a new fellowship program for cancer researchers.
New Grant Opportunity
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association are accepting applications for Healthy Relationships Community Grants. The grants will focus on three areas: supporting programs that build and improve mental-health resiliency among vulnerable populations; improving relationship skills of the next generation; and bolstering programs designed to strengthen and provide critical services to survivors of domestic violence. Nonprofit organizations in the United States may apply for general operating or programmatic grants of $50,000. Applications for the next quarterly grant cycle are due June 1.
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