Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Four U.S.-Based Grant Makers
$1 billion to enhance access to nutritious, affordable food for women and children in need. The new commitments were announced during the Nutrition for Growth Summit, hosted by Stronger Foundations for Nutrition last week in Paris.
The Gates Foundation will spend $750 million over four years to improve nutrition for mothers and their young children, fortify common foods with essential micronutrients and vitamins, and make low-cost, healthy food more available.
Kirk Humanitarian committed $125 million to encourage the use of prenatal supplements during pregnancy.
The Rockefeller Foundation promised $100 million for its new five-year program to improve school meals for 100 million children in more than 12 countries.
The Eleanor Crook Foundation pledged up to $50 million to expand access to multiple micronutrient supplements for pregnant women.
Enterprise Mobility
$200 million commitment through its Fill Your Tank and ROAD Forward programs to address food insecurity and advance social equity throughout North America and Europe.
George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
$75 million to the University of Utah toward the construction of a new, 800,000-square-foot hospital and medical campus in West Valley City, Utah, and to expand access to health care for residents of rural communities in Salt Lake County.
GE Vernova
$50 million over five years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop new energy and climate technology and develop a work-force pipeline in the energy sector through research opportunities, student fellowships and internships, and educational and professional-development programs.
O.C. Tanner
$15 million over 10 years to the Utah Symphony and Opera to support its leadership and long-term financial sustainability.
Arnold Ventures
$10 million challenge grant to the Colorado Partnership for Proven Initiatives.
Arnold Ventures to match up to $10 million in funding from the State of Colorado over the next four years to enhance economic opportunities for residents of the state.
Skoll Foundation
$10 million to the five winners of the 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation, which honors the achievements of social-entrepreneurship organizations worldwide.
Each winner has received $2 million in unrestricted and flexible support. The recipients this year are Apis & Heritage Capital Partners (United States), Community Health Impact Coalition (United States), EarthEnable (Rwanda), Healthy Learners (Zambia), and Pacto Pela Democracia (Brazil).
Robert K. Johnson Foundation
$8 million commitment to the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences to endow the Robert K. Johnson Integrated Studies Program, a first-year residential program for the approximately 80 undergraduate students who are Benjamin Franklin Scholars.
In their first year, the students live together, take the same interdisciplinary courses, and collaborate on co-curricular opportunities.
Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh
$8 million commitment to Carnegie Mellon University Libraries to renovate the Posner Center for Special Collections and support the care, display, and usage of the libraries’ rare books, manuscripts, and early calculating devices and cryptographic machines.
James B. McClatchy Foundation
$7 million to grassroots and community-based organizations that are enhancing civic engagement in California’s Central Valley.
Price Philanthropies Foundation
$7 million to Sharp HealthCare to back its behavioral-health programs at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital and Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center.
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
$6.6 million to Bar-Ilan University to establish a collaborative research-lab complex that will develop more efficient battery-storage devices and fuel cells.
The collaboration includes the laboratories of the National Energy Storage Institute, the Helmsley Charitable Trust Prototype Laboratory, and NetZero Technology Ventures.
VoLo Foundation
$6 million over three years to the CLEO Institute for its efforts to advance climate education, advocacy, policy, and resilience-building for communities in Florida.
PetSmart Charities
$5 million to 150 animal-welfare groups across the U.S. and Puerto Rico to create resources and incentives for animal shelters to find homes for adoptable pets through in-store events.
Lone Mountain Land Co.
$4 million commitment to Montana State University to back the construction of a facility that will house Gallatin College MSU, which offers professional and work-force trades certificates and associate degrees.
North Carolina Community Foundation
$3 million through its Disaster Relief Fund to nearly 100 charitable organizations for long-term recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.
The grants, which range from $15,000 to $100,000, will support food access, housing, human services, and future emergency preparedness.
Scaife Family Foundation
$3 million to the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation to strengthen maternal-health programs at Magee Cares, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Birth Doula program, and UPMC Wraparound Services.
Hudson-Webber Foundation
$2.9 million to 10 nonprofit organizations to advance community and economic development, civic engagement, and racial equity in Detroit.
Carnegie Corporation of New York and Salesforce
$2.6 million to Common Sense Media.
Carnegie Corporation of New York gave the group $1.6 million for a digital-literacy program to teach young people to identify how misinformation, artificial intelligence, and social-media algorithms shape their understanding of the news and media landscape. The program will be housed within U.S. schools and public libraries, beginning this fall.
In a separate grant, Common Sense Media will receive $1 million over two years from Salesforce to enhance AI literacy in schools across the United States, with special emphasis on reaching students in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Oakland, Calif.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
$2.6 million over three years to the University of Mississippi’s School of Education to expand free, online counseling services to young people in Mississippi and share an updated preschool curriculum with teachers across the state.
Eisner Foundation
$1.4 million to five organizations for intergenerational programs that connect older adults with children and youths.
Grundfos Foundation and the Coca-Cola Foundation
$1.1 million to the Global Water Center for a skills-development project to develop a pipeline of water-treatment professionals and expand access to clean water in rural areas of Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
Gilbert Family Foundation
$1 million to the College for Creative Studies to continue and expand the Gilbert Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship, which the foundation created with a $1 million grant in 2023 to offer tuition support to students from Detroit.
Conrad Prebys Foundation
$1 million to the Visual and Performing Arts Foundation for a partnership with the Expressive Arts Institute and San Diego Unified School District to deliver in-classroom arts programs to 25 schools with limited arts offerings and boost mental health and well-being among students.
The organization is the inaugural winner of the Prebys Sparx award, which recognizes arts, culture, and nature programs that benefit young people in San Diego.
New Grant Opportunities
Amazon Web Services is accepting applications for its 2025 Imagine Grant Program, open to nonprofit organizations in the United States that are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Its Momentum to Modernize category will award grants worth up to $50,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $20,000 in promotional credit and technical support, for projects to upgrade technology that support each grantee’s mission. For its Go Further, Faster category, grants worth up to $150,000 in unrestricted financial support, as well as up to $100,000 in promotional credit and technical support, are available to bolster nonprofit groups that employ cloud technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other high-tech solutions. The Pathfinder — Generative AI category will award unrestricted grants worth up to $200,000, in addition to $100,000 in promotional credit and technical support, for projects that use artificial intelligence to enhance existing data-strategy programs. Proposals are due June 2.
If, a Foundation for Radical Possibility is accepting proposals for grants to organizations that are advancing racial justice through innovation, disruption, and systems change in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Ten grants, each worth $225,000 over three years, will be awarded in this round, primarily for general operating support. Applicants must have boards and staff that are at least 50 percent people of color. Proposals are due on June 9.
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