Here are notable new grant awards for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
TikTok
$250 million commitment for Covid-19 relief grants. Of this, $150 million will create the TikTok Health Heroes Relief Fund, which will provide medical supplies and hardship relief for health care workers. Among the grants already awarded is $15 million to the CDC Foundation to increase frontline public-health staff in areas with surging Covid-19 cases. The social-media company also designated $40 million for the TikTok Community Relief Fund, including $2 million to MusiCares to support artists, songwriters, and music professionals who have lost work because of canceled performance and gigs.
Blue Meridian Partners
$100 million for its Covid-19 relief programs, including direct cash payments to help low-income people and families. This coalition of philanthropists has already made donations to the Family Independence Initiative, GiveDirectly, National Domestic Workers Alliance, One Fair Wage, and the Workers Lab to make rapid cash payments to tens of thousands of people who need immediate financial assistance.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
$100 million pledge to address the global effects of the pandemic. Its priorities will be medical research, economic hardship, and the social ramifications of the pandemic. The foundation has given $3 million to Rockefeller University for its research related to Covid-19. Special emphasis will be given to efforts in Greece to protect the country’s citizens from the economic and social fallout of the virus.
BNP Paribas
$55 million commitment for Covid-19 recovery efforts worldwide. The bank has made donations to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, NYC Health + Hospitals and its new field hospital under construction at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center, the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, and the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
Intel
$50 million pledge to upgrade technology in Covid-19 patient care, scientific research, and expanding access to online learning for students. It will also create an innovation fund to offer direct support to community-based efforts. The new commitment is in addition to $10 million in prior commitments for the technology company’s pandemic response.
KKR & Co.
$50 million commitment to create a fund dedicated to frontline health care workers and first responders, and to offer financial-relief packages to workers and small businesses.
Advent International
$25 million to establish a relief fund that will support health care professionals, first responders, and other frontline workers.
Lam Research Corporation
$25 million commitment for global Covid-19 aid and recovery efforts, focusing on short-term community assistance that includes critical supplies to hospitals, as well as longer-term recovery programs for communities.
Gilead Sciences
$20 million to establish the Gilead Covid-19 Acute Relief and Emergency Support Grantee Fund. Among the grants already awarded are $1 million to the San Mateo County Strong Fund and $1 million to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles.
Mars Inc.
$20 million commitment to support organizations that serve people, pets, and communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Among the candy company’s donations are $5 million to CARE for critical supplies and expertise in fighting the pandemic in poorer countries, particularly among women, children, and refugee populations; $2 million to the United Nations’ World Food Programme; and $1 million to Humane Society International to help cats and dogs that have been abandoned or surrendered to shelters because of their owners falling ill or losing their jobs.
Blackstone
$15 million for Covid-19 relief efforts, including $10 million to the New York State Covid-19 First Responders Fund and $5 million to organizations that deliver food to health care workers and first responders as well as others supporting vulnerable populations in New York. The recipients in the latter group include City Harvest, World Central Kitchen, Great Performances, Slice Out Hunger, Coalition for the Homeless, Union Settlement, and Covenant House.
Richard King Mellon Foundation
$15 million for its Covid-19 grant-making efforts, with emphasis on finding a vaccine and to assist people facing unemployment and other financial loss stemming from the pandemic.
Chubb Charitable Foundation
$10 million to pandemic relief efforts worldwide. Of this, $1.7 million went to the International Medical Corps to expand hospital capacity in coronavirus hot spots and poorer areas, $1.5 million to the Global FoodBanking Network, and $1 million to Project Hope to support frontline health workers.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
$10 million in new grants toward relief efforts in the Los Angeles area and abroad. Brilliant Corners has received $2.25 million for a partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to purchase supplies and develop a plan to care for individuals experiencing homelessness during the pandemic.
MAC Cosmetics
$10 million through its Viva Glam Fund to 250 local organizations globally that are providing essential needs and services to people at higher risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Morgan Stanley
$10 million for coronavirus relief, including $250,000 to the Child Mind Institute for its Covid-19 response efforts.
PGA of America
$7.5 million partial challenge gift to establish the Golf Emergency Relief Fund, which will provide short-term financial assistance to workers in the golf industry who have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. The golfing organization has pledged $5 million now and will match giving up to $2.5 million to the fund.
Allstate Foundation
$5 million for Covid-19 relief and recovery organizations, including $500,000 to the National Network to End Domestic Violence to support its network of 100 local shelters.
Citadel and Citadel Securities
$5 million to support top research and medical facilities in New York to advance Covid-19 scientific programs. Weill Cornell Medicine has received $2 million to develop a rapid-response testing program and to test the efficacy of prophylactic drugs. Additional grants of $1 million each have gone to Mount Sinai, New York University Langone Health, and Rockefeller University.
Rite Aid Foundation
$5 million for coronavirus relief, including grants of $500,000 each to the American Nurses Foundation’s Coronavirus Response Fund for Nurses, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the CDC Foundation, the First Responders Children’s Foundation Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund, and Feeding America.
Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation
$5 million to GlobalGiving to establish the Red Backpack Fund, which will make 1,000 cash grants of $5,000 to support female entrepreneurs in the wake of Covid-19.
Stupski Foundation
$5 million to make general operating support grants to organizations working in health care, food security, and education in the San Francisco Bay Area and Hawaii.
Heising Simons Foundation
$4.7 million for Covid-19 response grants, including $1.1 million to Parents as Teachers National Center to lead the Rapid Response Virtual Home Visiting collaborative, which will develop and distribute free online resources to keep families connected virtually.
American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation
$4 million pledge for Covid-19 pandemic relief efforts. The Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation will add another $2.8 million to the commitment.
Rachael Ray Foundation and the Yum-o! Organization
$4 million to help support American families. Half of the commitment has been allocated to relieve food insecurity for children and families, and the remaining $2 million will go to animal-welfare groups.
BBVA USA
$3.7 million to support food banks, community-development financial institutions, and current grantees in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Health Forward Foundation
Up to $3.7 million to support the resiliency of its grantees and partners in the greater Kansas City area, including $350,000 to the Kansas City Regional Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund, $250,000 to Harvesters to address food insecurity in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, and $100,000 to the YMCA of Greater Kansas City to cover child-care costs for essential workers in health care and behavioral health.
Starbucks Foundation
$3 million to support coronavirus-response efforts globally, including $1 million to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, a joint project of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Foundation.
Barr Foundation
$2.6 million for Covid-19 response efforts in Massachusetts, including a $500,000 grant to the Boston Resiliency Fund and grants of $250,000 each to the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation, and Greater Worcester Community Foundation.
Bush Foundation
$2.5 million to four groups, including $1 million to the Minnesota Disaster Recovery Fund, $500,000 to the South Dakota Community Foundation’s Coronavirus Response Fund, $500,000 to the Dakota Medical Foundation’s Critical Safety Net Fund, and $500,000 to NDN Collective to support its relief work in indigenous communities.
Clara Lionel Foundation
$2.1 million to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles to provide support for domestic-violence survivors during the Covid-19 “stay at home” order in Los Angeles by creating emergency shelters and offering meals and counseling. The Clara Lionel Foundation was created by the singer Rihanna to raise money for charitable causes. Jack Dorsey, the CEO and co-founder of Twitter, is also committing $2.1 million to the effort.
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
$2 million to the University of Washington Medicine for outreach to currently homeless people in Seattle during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Collective Future Fund
$2 million to its current grantees to address the specific needs of queer, trans, and cis women and girls of color, including indigenous and immigrant survivors of violence, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation
$2 million to the City University of New York to establish the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund, which will provide urgent financial assistance to students in need during the coronavirus crisis. Each foundation gave $1 million.
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
$2 million in expedited funding for general operating support at 175 of its arts grantees in the Chicago metropolitan area and another 40 groups in South Carolina’s lowcountry.
Covid-19 LA County Partners Response Fund
$1.7 million to nonprofit groups in the Los Angeles area that are covering immediate and emerging needs for vulnerable people living in the region. The fund attracted seed money from the Annenberg Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and the California Endowment, among others.
Russell Family Foundation
$1.7 million for Covid-19 relief, including $1 million to the Pierce County Connected Fund to support human-services groups that help residents of Washington’s Pierce County, and $670,000 in unrestricted general-operating support to 26 environmental organizations that work in Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Thurston, and Pierce Counties.
Audible
$1 million to World Central Kitchen to create Newark Working Kitchens, which will keep local restaurants open to provide meals for people in need in Newark, N.J.
Green Bay Packers
$1 million to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, which has made grants to 10 nonprofit groups to address food and hygiene needs, housing assistance, transportation, medication, and other basic needs in Wisconsin’s Brown County.
Horizon Foundation
$1 million to meet emergency health needs caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Maryland. Among the grants are $500,000 to Howard County General Hospital and $125,000 to the Health Facilities Association of Maryland.
Inspire Brands Foundation
$1 million to create a Covid-19 relief fund. The restaurant group’s fund made its first $100,000 grant to GenYouth for its Covid-19 Emergency School Nutrition Fund, which will provide meals in up to 33 schools nationwide.
LanguageLine Solutions
Up to $1 million pledge to Direct Relief to provide personal protective equipment to health workers.
Owl Rock Capital
$1 million to the Food Bank for New York City for its Covid-19 pandemic response.
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