Grant Criteria & Guidelines

CRITERIA

• Applicant organizations must be classified as 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service and must operate within the United States of America.
• Only one request is considered from an organization during any 12-month period.
• The Foundation does not consider grants to organizations that in policy or practice discriminate on the basis of race, creed or sex.

GUIDELINES

The Foundation will consider general operating or special project requests from organizations whose goals and purposes are in keeping with the mission of the Foundation. Preference will be given to agencies and projects that demonstrate the application of the guiding principles of the Foundation to institutions of society.

Every effort is made to be as effective as possible in awarding the funds that the Foundation has available for distribution. It is not possible, to undertake support of all requests and so the Trustees have established some parameters for the Foundation's grant-making activities. Although it is not possible to detail all programs that fall outside our funding priorities, the Foundation generally will not consider support of the following:

• Human service agencies
• Museums or museum projects
• Organizations primarily supported by tax-derived funding
• Individuals
• Endowments
• Scientific or medical research projects
• Publications or production of films or other media-related projects
• Churches or church projects
• Funding of deficits or retirement of debt
• Special events
• Out-of-country projects
• Purchase of computer equipment