Here are notable new grant awards specifically for the Covid-19 outbreak, compiled by the Chronicle:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$150 million in expanded grant making for the global response to Covid-19. The foundation will also use the foundation’s Strategic Investment Fund to accelerate the procurement of essential medical supplies and ensure equitable access to diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.
Open Society Foundations
$130 million in immediate pandemic relief, particularly with regard to low-wage and gig- economy workers; refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers; homeless people; frontline health workers and caregivers; and detained and incarcerated individuals. In the United States, $37 million will go to programs to aid workers and their families in New York, and $12 million will support emergency relief for vulnerable workers in other American cities and states. Another $2.5 million will help community efforts in Baltimore, Puerto Rico, and Washington.
Project 100
$100 million pledge in direct cash assistance to 100,000 families that receive SNAP benefits. A project by GiveDirectly, Propel, and Stand for Children, the fund has received more than $40 million from donors, which that include Blue Meridian Partners, the Clara Lionel Foundation, Google.org, Flourish Ventures, Flu Lab, Wend Collective, Blue Haven Initiative, and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Jewish Community Response and Impact Fund
$80 million commitment in interest-free loans and grants to Jewish nonprofit organizations facing economic hardship because of the pandemic. The fund was created with donations from the Aviv Foundation;, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation;, the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation;, the Jim Joseph Foundation;, Maimonides Fund;, the Paul E. Singer Foundation;, and the Wilf Family Foundation.
New York Life Insurance Co. and Cigna Corporation
$75 million commitment to establish the $100 million Brave of Heart Fund, which will support the families of health-care workers who die after treating patients with Covid-19. Each of the insurance companies will contribute $25 million to the fund, and the New York Life Foundation will additionally match up to another $25 million in public contributions. The fund will make its first round of grants worth $15,000 each in May, and eligible survivors will qualify for up to $60,000 more.
Citi and the Citi Foundation
$50 million in additional grants in support of pandemic-relief efforts in communities around the world, including $10 million to nonprofit community- development financial institutions that will make loans to entrepreneurs and small businesses. This new pledge is in addition to the $15 million the bank gave in March. Of the total, $36 million in charitable contributions came from Citi, and the Citi Foundation has awarded nearly $30 million in grants.
California Immigrant Resilience Fund
$50 million to provide direct cash assistance to immigrants living in California who have great need because of the Covid-19 pandemic but are excluded from federal and state safety-net programs. The fund’s initial donors include the Akonadi Foundation, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, the California Endowment, the California Wellness Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Emerson Collective, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, the James Irvine Foundation, the Marin Community Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and Sunlight Giving.
Hearst Foundations
$50 million in emergency funding to more than 100 medical, humanitarian, and cultural organizations in the United States that have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation is based in California, and the Hearst Foundation is in New York.
NYC Covid-19 Response & Impact Fund
$32.8 million in its first round of grants to 259 arts and culture groups and social-services providers in New York. In addition, the fund has made $11.3 million in interest-free loans to 17 nonprofit groups in the city. Since the fund was established at the New York Community Trust on March 20, it has grown to $95 million in donations from foundations, companies, and donors from New York.
Rockefeller Foundation
$30 million over two years in additional global coronavirus grant making, including $15 million to create a plan to expand Covid-19 testing and safely reopen the U.S. economy, and for efforts focused in Asia and Africa. This commitment is in addition to $20 million the foundation pledged in March.
Newmont Corporation
$20 million to create the Newmont Global Community Support Fund, which will make grants to local governments, medical institutions, charities, and nonprofit nongovernmental organizations that serve people with the greatest needs and also build long-term organizational resiliency.
Wallace Global Fund
$20 million commitment in grant making during 2020 to support organizations that work on behalf of people in the working class, communities of color, and women who are facing human-rights abuses. The pledge represents 20 percent of the foundation’s endowment.
Read an opinion piece co-written by Ellen Dorsey, the foundation’s executive director, about the urgent need for grant makers to dip into their endowments during the Covid-19 crisis.
Liberty Mutual Insurance
$15 million to help Boston-based organizations on the pandemic front lines. The grants include $1 million each to Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, Boston Medical Center, and Pine Street Inn.
Bronx Community Relief Effort
$10 million pledge to address the immediate needs of residents of the Bronx, N.Y., during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund
$10 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to support the rapid development of a new Covid-19 vaccine. The Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, which has raised to date more than $140 million, is a project of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Foundation.
Pascale Sykes Foundation
$10 million to expand the Thrive South Jersey Initiative, which is giving financial assistance and no-interest loans to meet the immediate needs of small businesses and nonprofit groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. The program is in partnership with New Jersey Community Capital.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
$8 million to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
Blue Shield of California Foundation
$6.8 million to organizations addressing a rise in domestic violence, economic insecurity, and health risks to immigrants and detainees because of the pandemic. The grants include $1.5 million to the Women’s Foundation of California, $1 million to Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, and $1 million to help create the California Immigrant Resilience Fund.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$6.6 million in new grants, comprising including $5 million in Covid-19 Response Grants to support educators and families and $1.6 million to provide resources for students from schools that are currently closed. Among the grants already given are $500,000 to the Council of Chief State School Officers and $500,000 to the International Society for Education Technology.
Delta Dental Community Care Foundation
$6 million in additional grants to organizations nationwide that work with underserved communities and people at high risk of contracting Covid-19. Of this total, $2 million is earmarked for groups in New York State.
Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation
$6 million for its Covid-19 response efforts, including $1.5 million to support caregivers at acute-care hospitals in southeast Michigan and western New York. Eight hospital systems in Michigan and 10 in the Buffalo, N.Y., area have received grants to support nurse aides, food-services staff, and other hospital employees.
Aflac
$5 million to two organizations that are providing assistance for front line health -care workers. The insurance company gave $3 million to Direct Relief to purchase essential medical supplies and $2 million for the Global Center for Medical Innovation to use 3-D printing technology to address the shortages of ventilators and protective masks.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$5 million to seed Artist Relief, a $10 million fund that will offer artists unrestricted grants of $5,000 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
NeighborWorks America
$4.8 million in emergency flexible grants to 239 grantees to enable them to continue services during the coronavirus crisis.
Stanley Black & Decker
$4 million to nonprofit organizations that are focusing on Covid-19 relief.
United Way of Greater Newark
$4 million through the Community Covid-19 Fund to address individual, public- health, nonprofit, and long-term recovery needs in northern New Jersey during the coronavirus crisis. The fund was created in partnership with the City of Newark, Prudential Financial, the Victoria Foundation, the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, and Invest Newark.
T-Mobile and T-Mobile Foundation
$3.3 million commitment for coronavirus grant making, including $2.5 million to hundreds of local Boys & Girls Clubs affiliates and school districts in the United States, $700,000 to Feeding America, and $100,000 to the Covid-19 Response Fund at the Seattle Foundation.
Google.org and Flourish Ventures
$3 million to GiveDirectly for its Covid-19 Relief Fund, particularly to give cash payments to residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, made a personal gift that is counted in Google.org’s $2 million grant to the effort.
Merck
$3 million to its Merck for Mothers program to help end preventable maternal deaths during and following childbirth during the pandemic.
Republic Services
$3 million to its Republic Services Charitable Foundation, which will make grants to its long-term nonprofit partners that operate in the Phoenix area and serve local communities and small businesses.
Kresge Foundation
$2.6 million in three cities responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Of this, $1.6 million will go to emergency relief efforts for people and families in Detroit. In New Orleans, grants totaling $600,000 will support nonprofit organizations working with people experiencing homelessness, seniors, and low-wage workers. Finally, grants totaling $485,000 will assist Memphis charities as well as musicians and artists in the area.
Public Service Enterprise Group Foundation
$2.5 million in response to the Covid-19 crisis, including $1 million to the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund.
Dallas Foundation
$2.2 million in unrestricted grants to local charities responding to the Covid-19 crisis. The foundation awarded $1.2 million in immediate grants to 26 charities in the Dallas area, and plans to pay out at least an additional $1 million in the coming weeks.
Henry L. Hillman Foundation
$2 million in additional grant making to cover emergency basic needs for residents of the Pittsburgh area. The foundation gave $350,000 each to United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 412 Food Rescue, and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
KPMG and the KPMG U.S. Foundation
$2 million for its Covid-19 giving, including $1 million to create a disaster-relief fund to make grants to nonprofit organizations focusing on health and wellness and lifelong learning-centered activities during the pandemic.
S&P Global Foundation
$2 million in a second round of Covid-19 grants to support global organizations and small businesses during a time of critical need. Grantees in the United States include include Accion International, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Save Small Business Fund, MicroMentor, Project HOPE, the New York State Covid-19 First Responders Fund, the New York City Police Foundation, and the New York City Fire Department Foundation,
State Employees’ Credit Union and the SECU Foundation
$2 million to the Salvation Army to deliver food, shelter, financial assistance, and other emergency support to people living in North Carolina.
Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation
$1.6 million to support leaders in Detroit and Florida’s Palm Beach County who are working to address the most immediate needs during the Covid-19 crisis. Michigan grantees include the Brightmoor Alliance, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, CultureSource, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and United Way of Southeast Michigan, as well as the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Covid-19 Response Fund and Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County in Florida.
Burns & McDonnell Foundation
$1.5 million to the United Way Covid-19 Community Response and Recovery Fund.
ECMC Foundation
$1.5 million through its nonprofit partners to give emergency grants for students in postsecondary education, including $500,000 to Believe in Students, $500,000 to Mission Asset Fund, $250,000 to the University Innovation Alliance, and $250,000 to support a foundation program that focuses on helping students at minority-serving institutions.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Schmidt Futures
$1.5 million to the Pandemic Action Network to advocate for policy changes and increased resources to ensure countries are better prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to pandemic threats, now and in the future.
Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation
$1.3 million in emergency grants to health and hunger-relief organizations nationwide, in addition to donations of coffee and baked goods to more than 20,000 health care workers on the pandemic front lines.
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
$1.3 million to provide distance learning, technological support, and career-counseling options for disabled young people who are out of school because of the pandemic. The grantees include the American Association of People with Disabilities, Bridges from School to Work, Dreams for Schools, and Gigi’s Playhouse.
Cargill Foundation
$1 million to Appetite for Change and MN Central Kitchen to add a new site that will produce and distribute 120,000 meals to people in need in North Minneapolis.
Connecticut Covid-19 Charity Connection
$1 million to Foodshare and Connecticut Foodbank to provide 2.5 million nutritious meals to Connecticut families.
Cummings Foundation
$1 million to Boston-area organizations responding to the coronavirus crisis, including a $500,000 grant to the Massachusetts Covid-19 Relief Fund.
Kia Motors America
$1 million to nonprofit groups that provide shelter and care to homeless youths in the United States throughout the Covid-19 crisis. Grantees include Covenant House, StandUp for Kids, and Family Promise.
O.C. Community Resilience Fund
$1 million to local organizations that serve the most vulnerable communities in Orange County, Calif. The fund is a project of Charitable Ventures: A Center for Social Change, the Orange County Community Foundation, and the St. Joseph Community Partnership Fund.
Synchrony
Up to $1 million pledge to World Central Kitchen to provide meals to people in need.
UBS Optimus Foundation
$1 million matching grant to Médecins Sans Frontières. The commitment matches a $1 million donation from the Clara Lionel Foundation, which was created by the singer Rihanna to raise money for nonprofit groups.
Vistaprint
$1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to create the Save Small Business Fund, which is making grants of $5,000 to small businesses in the United States that employ from three3 to 20 people and have suffered economic hardship because of the pandemic.
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