ARTS & HUMANITIES

Foundation: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program: Curatorial Research Fellowships
Deadline: 3/1/2025
Award Amount: - $50,000
Proposals are accepted from 501c3 arts organizations on behalf of curators at any stage of their careers, with or without institutional affiliation, working towards projects that will manifest at least two years after a grant is made. Scholarly research undertaken in the field of contemporary art is funded through Curatorial Research Fellowships. Curators at any stage of their careers are eligible to apply and must have the formal support of an institution and its director. It is assumed that research will lead to a significant exhibition, though this is not a requirement. Generally these fellowships are for projects with long lead times and may involve significant travel. Grants to curators do not preclude separate proposals from sponsoring institutions in any given grant round. Grants are up to $50,000 and are intended to cover expenses incurred during the research and development stage of an exhibition, public-facing project, or other visual arts-based initiative that contributes in an original way to contemporary visual arts discourse

Mail or Email Application: https://warholfoundation.org/grants/

Foundation: Teiger Foundation
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program: Teiger Foundation Single Project Grant
Deadline: 1/28/2025
Award Amount: $150,000
A single project grant can cover no more than 50% of a project’s budgeted expenses. Teiger Foundation offers grants for US-based, curator-led initiatives in contemporary visual art. We support group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged art projects, digital exhibitions, live and virtual performance in the context of the visual arts, and as-yet-unknown curatorial forms involving contemporary visual art and artists. This grant category supports projects in the implementation phase, which can include auxiliaries such as live events and publications in a range of media.

We support curators' growth and development as they work in or in partnership with organizations of all sizes. We value fresh ideas and formats, knowledge exchange and collaboration, and resource sharing. We encourage responses to urgent conditions and new approaches to working with artists, institutions, and communities. We support the development and realization of new projects as well as the deepening and extending of the value of existing ones. We do not prioritize particular themes or project types.

Online Application: https://www.teigerfoundation.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program: Digital Art History Grants
Deadline: 3/1/2025
Award Amount: $25,000
Deadline is for Letter of Intent; full applications due 4/1/2025. Grant average is $25,000. The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.

Online Application: https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/Digital-Art-History

Foundation: Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation
Topic: Arts & Humanities
Program: Arts Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $2,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only.
1. Anchor Arts

Our Desired Outcome is a culturally vibrant metro Detroit, evidenced by financially healthy organizations and a coordinated sector.
To achieve that outcome, we provide flexible funding to select arts and cultural organizations, support improved business models that increase the capacity and impact of those organizations, and invest in holistic efforts that strengthen the field. Learn more about eligibility and the application process for this funding opportunity at Detroit Arts Support. We will measure impact by tracking the capitalization of arts organizations in metropolitan Detroit.

2. Jazz Education

Our Desired Outcome is to continue Detroit’s strong jazz tradition and Fred Erb’s legacy of jazz patronage by educating the next
generation of jazz musicians.
To achieve that outcome, we support efforts to provide and improve jazz instruction for youth.
We will measure impact through the number of jazz education students.

Online Application: https://www.erbff.org/programs/

CHILDREN/ YOUTH

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Equitable Communities Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive in vibrant and equitable communities. Equitable communities are places of opportunity where all children and families can develop, grow and contribute--where people recognize that community well-being depends on the participation of every person. Making communities more equitable requires all of us to confront how racism and bias affects our history and present-day experiences, to heal from the resulting fractures in our relationships, and to begin reshaping the systems that hold back so many among us. By first acknowledging and understanding the root causes of inequity, communities can then come together to envision and chart a course for the transformation. Advancing racial equity and racial healing, engaging communities in solving their problems and developing leaders capable of guiding change on this scale are essential to creating vibrant, equitable communities. These three approaches, known as our DNA, are embedded in all we do.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Thriving Children Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive when they have a healthy start and quality learning experiences. To ensure children thrive, we focus on improving access to high quality, early childhood education and education systems, where families engaged in schools and practices are rooted in a community's cultures and languages.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Working Families Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Children are more likely to thrive when their families are economically secure. In the United States, we work alongside grantees and employers to widen pathways to stable, high-quality jobs and more equitable employment opportunities. We seek to expand support for tribal-, minority-, and women-owned business enterprises and to accelerate small business growth. Some families may need short-term assistance or other supports to move from poverty to financial stability, so we support efforts that inform policies and change systems to create greater economic stability for families and communities.

Online Application: https://www.wkkf.org/how-to-apply

Foundation: Dresner Foundation
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: Youth and Family
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Foundation's Focus:

• Self-Discovery - support for youth programs that foster self-empowerment and self-esteem through academic, artistic, personal or social enrichment. Regardless of whether a child lives in poverty or has a chronic disease, they must have access to programs that encourage self-expression and move their lives forward in a meaningful way. Therefore, the Foundation supports organizations that empower children and optimize their development by providing access to programs that promote academic, artistic, personal and social enhancement opportunities.
• Strengthening Families - support for programs that reinforce families. The foundation is interested in organizations that support youth through the provision of services that strengthen their families such as, but not limited to, work skill development and housing and family food assistance operations.

Online application: https://www.dresnerfoundation.org/program-areas/youth-programs/

Foundation: Skillman Foundation
Topic: Children/ Youth
Program: President's Discretionary Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Our President’s Discretionary Fund is a $1M annual fund is for small, one-time grants that support 501c3 nonprofits and public entities (school, church, or governmental units) that serve Detroit youth but fall outside The Skillman Foundation’s grantmaking priorities. This is a limited, highly competitive fund, allowing us to support Detroit youth in ways beyond our strategy.

The Skillman Foundation provides grant funding and other supports to organizations that expand opportunities for Detroit children and help them achieve their highest aspirations through K-12 education, afterschool learning opportunities, and pathways to college and career. Priorities include:

•            K-12 Education

•            Afterschool System

•            College & Career Pathways

Online application: https://www.skillman.org/grant-partners/

EDUCATION

Online Application: https://www.carnegie.org/programs/urban-and-higher-education/

Foundation: Lumina Foundation
Topic: Education
Program: Unsolicited Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500,000
Lumina Foundation believes that education provides the basis for individual opportunity, economic vitality, and social stability. With its partners, Lumina works toward a goal of 60 percent of Americans with a college degree, workforce certificate, or other high-quality credential beyond high school by 2025. Lumina's outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive, and accountable post-high school education system for all. We are inviting ideas that advance racial equity and justice in pursuit of Lumina's mission of ensuring 60 percent of working-age adults have college degrees, certificates, industry certifications, and other credentials of value by 2025.

Online application: https://www.luminafoundation.org/grants

Foundation: Teagle Foundation
Topic: Education
Program: Education for American Civic Life
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000- $400,000
Concept Papers may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a Rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Through "Education for American Civic Life," the Foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education by partnering with institutions offering bold and coherent initiatives that endow students with the content, skills, and sensibility to participate in a political system designed for self-governance. While progress has been made at many institutions of higher education to promote civic action as part of the undergraduate experience, the Foundation is especially concerned with grounding such action in comprehensive civic education through the curriculum.

Emailed Application: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Grants-Initiatives/Current-Initiatives-Listing/Initiatives/Education-for-American-Civic-Life/Education-for-American-Civic-Life-RFP

Foundation: Transformational Partnership Fund
Topic: Education
Program: Higher Ed Partnership and Collaboration Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Transformational Partnerships Fund supports colleges and universities interested in exploring partnerships and collaborations that could fundamentally transform the way they operate — centering students in solutions that deliver stability and success.

Catalytic grants (up to $100,000 per exploration) can be used to engage third-party technical assistance providers knowledgeable in law, finance, governance, communications, human resources, and other related fields. Grants can also be used to pay per diem to faculty or other staff working outside of their normal contracts to explore a partnership.  These grants may support the exploration of partnerships in many forms — ranging from shared administrative services or consolidated academic offerings on one end of the spectrum, to full mergers on the other.

Online Application: https://www.higheredpartnerships.org/challenge-opportunity/

Foundation: Wish You Well Foundation
Topic: Education
Program: Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000
Supporting family literacy in the United States by fostering and promoting the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs.

Online or Mail Application: http://www.wishyouwellfoundation.org/apply-for-funding/

ENGINEERING

Foundation: Intuitive Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Clinical Research Grants
Deadline: 1/6/2025
Award Amount: $75,000
Deadline is for Letter of Intent; full applications are by invitation only and are due 4/7/2025. The purpose of these grants is to support clinical research at non-profit institutions worldwide focused on the field of robotic-assisted surgery. Successful proposals will study important questions related to surgical care and patient outcomes.

Research Areas of Interest:

• Clinical Outcomes-Based Research (United States, APAC, Europe, Africa and South America)
• Imaging, Vision and/or Navigational Research (all regions)
• Health Economic and Outcomes Research including Cost-effectiveness and Cost-utility Studies related to Robotic-assisted Surgery (all regions)
• New Procedure Exploration and Development Research (all regions)

Online Application: https://www.intuitive-foundation.org/clinical-research-grants/#toggle-id-1

Foundation: Lalor Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Deadline: 1/15/2025
Award Amount: $55,000

The Lalor Foundation was incorporated in Delaware in 1935 under bequests from members of the Lalor family. One of the foundation’s major objectives has been to give assistance and encouragement to capable investigators embarking on teaching and research careers in universities and colleges. The program’s mission is to support these researchers early in their work so they can become independently funded in the field of mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.

The Lalor Foundation postdoctoral fellowship program supports promising new researchers in establishing scientific and teaching careers. The program's mission is to support these researchers early in their work so that they can become independently funded in the field of mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.

Online Application: https://lalorfound.org/postdoctoral-fellowship-program/application-instructions/

Foundation: Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Investigator Initiated Research Program
Deadline: 2/5/2025
Award Amount: $75,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Deadline is for Concept Paper; full applications are by invitation only and are due 4/16/2025. The Investigator Initiated Research Award Program from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation supports doctoral-level researchers focused on:

• Addressing critical gaps in health-related research
• Examining factors that may prevent or reduce risk for disease
• Examining associations and cause and effect relationships between health variables
• Secondary data analysis of large datasets
• Health care cost-analysis studies
• Robust evaluation projects and feasibility studies to test the implementation of innovative interventions to improve health outcomes

Emailed Application: https://www.bcbsm.com/foundation/grants/initiated-research/

Foundation: Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Community Health Matching Grant Program
Deadline: 2/5/2026
Award Amount: $25,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Deadline is for Concept Paper; full applications are by invitation only and are due 4/16/2025. This award offers up to $25,000 per year for two years. Through this program, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation partners with health professionals and community leaders at nonprofit organizations. We want to develop population-led, community-inspired programs or implement evidence-based programs to address community-identified needs, and evaluate measurable programmatic and health outcomes.

Emailed Application: https://www.bcbsm.com/foundation/grants/initiated-research/

Foundation: Dresner Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: Health
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $250,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The fund will facilitate the advancement of innovative basic science, translational or clinical research.
Our Focus

• Research – support for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and related research and emerging research leaders in the field. We look to provide researchers with the ability to focus on searching for MDS treatments and cures. The principle goal is to support cutting-edge MDS research and related programs that will lead to the future standards of care and ultimately cure.
• Access – support for programs that improve the health outcomes of vulnerable people, particularly underserved, low-income individuals who don’t have adequate access to health care.

The foundation is equally interested in efforts that have broad and meaningful impact and focus on intervention and prevention beyond the boundaries of any one disease.

Online Application: https://www.dresnerfoundation.org/program-areas/health-research/

Foundation: The Commonwealth Fund
Topic: Health
Program: Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. To promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

Online Application: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/applicant-resources

Foundation: Total Health Care Foundation
Topic: Health
Program: General application
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000- $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Full applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. THCF reviews submissions quarterly. Average grants $50,000-200,000. Improve the health and lives of people living in high-need areas; Provide care management that addresses social determinants of health; Educate expectant mothers on the importance of prenatal and preventive care; Promote wellness for transferred and vulnerable populations; Assist with the navigation of various aspects of Medicaid; Address disparities within the Detroit market

Emailed Application: https://www.priorityhealth.com/landing/total-health-care-foundation

Foundation: The Commonwealth Fund
Topic: Health
Program: Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $200,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Strictly LOI Submission Proposals are invitation only. Award amount based on previous grants. To promote a high performing healthcare system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

Online application: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/applicant-resources

MENTAL HEALTH

Foundation: Ford Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Ford Foundation Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Makes grants in seven interconnected areas to help challenge inequality:

• Cities and States
• Creativity and Free Expression
• Civic Engagement and Government
• Future of Work(ers)
• Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice
• Natural Resources and Climate Change
• Technology and Society

Online application: http://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/

Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $7,500,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Average grant for this program is $1,000,000. The Monuments Project is a five-year, $250 million commitment to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity: fund new monuments, memorials, or historic storytelling spaces; contextualize existing monuments or memorials through installations, research, and education; and relocate existing monuments or memorials. This is a five-year program, but Foundation Relations encourages early submissions.

Online Application: https://www.mellon.org/resources

Foundation: Oak Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000- $7,000,000
Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. In all of our work, we are committed to social justice. To this end, we pursue rights-based approaches, gender equality and partnership with the organizations we fund. We seek to support innovation, visionary leaders and organizations. We seek to be inclusive, flexible and to learn from different points of view. We believe that the best grant-making reflects both careful due diligence and the willingness to take risks.

We encourage our partners to work together - we believe that together we are stronger. As a whole we fund initiatives that:

target the root causes of problems;
are replicable either within a sector or across geographical locations;
include plans for long-term sustainability, such as co-funding;
strive to collaborate with like-minded organizations;
demonstrate good financial and organizational management;
and value the participation of people (including children) and communities.

Online application: http://oakfnd.org/grant-making/

Foundation: Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $6,000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation accepts applications on an ongoing basis, year-round. The first step in the application is a Letter of Inquiry; if the LOI fits within the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation's cur Our Four Key Areas of Focused Investment:

•            Active Lifestyles

•            Preparing for Success

•            Caregivers

•            Entrepreneurship & Economic Development

Online Application: http://www.ralphcwilsonjrfoundation.org/how-to-apply/

Foundation: Glaser Progress Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $5,000,000
 Based on the interests of its founder and managing board, the Foundation has chosen to create strategic initiatives in various program areas: how we measure progress; how we demonstrate the impacts of climate change on human health; how we address the global HIV/AIDS pandemic; how we ensure diversity of voices in our media; and how we treat animals. The Glaser Progress Foundation focuses on four program areas: Measuring Progress, Global Health & Climate Change Independent Media Animal Advocacy Note: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals for the Global Health & Climate Change and Animal Advocacy program areas.

Mail or Email Application: http://www.glaserprogress.org/application/index.asp

Foundation: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Topic: Various
Program: Democracy Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $3,500,000
The goal of the Democracy program is to foster a pluralistic, vibrant democracy through the civic integration of immigrants, support for nonpartisan voter registration and education, and voting rights. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas: The goal of the Democracy program is to foster a pluralistic, vibrant democracy through the civic integration of immigrants, support for nonpartisan voter registration and education, and voting rights. Under this program, Carnegie has the following Focus Areas:

Field Building: We support national nonprofit groups that educate, coordinate, and strengthen a field made up of locally based organizations dealing with challenges to democracy, immigration, voting, and related issues. These challenges result from the dearth of effective federal policies needed to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all people in the United States.

Strategic Communications: The Democracy program's support for strategic communications is designed to promote intelligent, unbiased, nonpartisan news coverage to deepen public understanding of civic issues like voting rights, voter engagement, immigration, and the census.

Policy Development: The Corporation funds original research on important issues, including voting rights, voter participation, immigration, citizenship, and the census, in order to improve federal and state policies regarding immigrant integration and civic engagement

Nonpartisan Voter Engagement and Voting Rights: Engaged citizens, those who care about and work to preserve our democracy help ensure that government policies reflect the concerns of constituents. A democracy, by definition, gives eligible citizens the right to vote for their elected representatives.

Online Application: https://www.carnegie.org/programs/strengthening-democracy/

Foundation: Hudson Webber Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants for Detroit
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000- $2,000,000

Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Letters of Inquiry are accepted on continuous basis; Full Proposals are by invitation only. Arts & Culture

Hudson-Webber invests in the capacity of arts and cultural organizations to deliver quality, accessible, and engaging cultural programming, as well as increasing the diversity of voices reflected in the sector. The Foundation also supports arts and culture projects that contribute to the health and vitality of Detroit and its neighborhoods.

Built Environment

Hudson-Webber invests in the work that Detroiters are doing today to reimagine the city’s built environment as one of inclusivity, diversity, accessibility, and connectedness. The Foundation seeks to increase the prevalence of quality physical spaces that reflect and enhance our diverse cultures, shared identities, and highest aspirations for our community. The Foundation accomplishes this through investing in built-environment projects and by strengthening the field of practitioners that support the creation and stewardship of quality physical spaces.

Community & Economic Development

The Hudson-Webber Foundation invests in community and civic efforts that provide high quality jobs for all Detroiters, strengthen neighborhoods to provide opportunities and quality of life for residents, and help achieve stable racial and economic diversity and interconnectedness.

Safe & Just Communities

The Foundation invests in innovative, racially equitable strategies that reduce crime and victimization and that improve community well-being. The Foundation is particularly focused on deterring crime and reducing recidivism through diversion and re-entry interventions and by strengthening relationships between law enforcement and residents that enable the co-production of public safety.

Online application: https://hudson-webber.org/how-to-apply/

Foundation: Hearst Foundations
Topic: Various
Program: Program Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Hearst Foundations are national philanthropic resources for organizations working in the fields of culture, education, health and social services. The Hearst Foundations identify and fund outstanding nonprofits to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States have the opportunity to build healthy, productive and satisfying lives.

Funding priorities:

•            Culture

•            Education

•            Health

•            Social Service

Online Application: https://www.hearstfdn.org/faq

Foundation: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Rolling deadline for Letters of Inquiry; full proposals are by invitation only. Average grant size is $50,000. The Foundation affirms its founder's vision of a world in which each of us is in partnership with the rest of the human race - where each individual's quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally. The Foundation seeks to strengthen, in people and their organizations, what Mr. Mott called "the capacity for accomplishment." The Foundation's mission is to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.

Program Areas:

1. Civil Society: The mission is strengthen philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as vital vehicles for increasing civic engagement and improving communities and societies. Program areas are:
- Strengthening Civic Space
- Enhancing Community Philanthropy
- Increasing Access to Justice
- Special Initiatives

2. Education: The mission is to fund efforts to expand learning opportunities and supports for children, particularly those from low- and moderate-income communities. Program areas are
- Youth Engagement
- Graduating High School College & Career Ready
- Advancing Afterschool
- Special Initiatives

3. Environment: The mission is to support programs around the world that protect communities and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Program areas are
- Advancing Climate Change Solutions
- Transforming Development Finance
- Addressing the Freshwater Challenge
- Special Initiatives

Online Application: https://www.mott.org/grantseekers/

Foundation: Open Philanthropy
Topic: Various
Program: Course Development Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. This program aims to provide grant support to academics for the development of new university courses (including online courses). They are primarily looking to fund the development of new courses but are also accepting proposals from applicants who are looking for funding to turn courses they have already taught in an in-person setting into freely available online courses.

Open Application: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/open-philanthropy-course-development-grants/

Foundation: Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Since the needs, desires and capabilities of Michigan’s people and their organizations are constantly changing, there is no fixed or steadfast priority in the Foundation grant making decisions. However, within its charter and philosophy the trustees tend to support Programs in: Education: Science: Arts and Culture; and Community Life.

Online Application: https://hhgadowfdn.org/grants/

Foundation: Skillman Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. The Skillman Foundation provides grant funding and other supports to organizations that expand opportunity for Detroit children and help them achieve their highest aspirations through K-12 education, afterschool learning opportunities, and pathways to college and career.

K-12 Education

We support a high-quality system of schools that help children meet educational milestones and move through life as capable and confident thinkers.

Afterschool System

We with community partners to build a robust ecosystem of out-of-school learning opportunities that allow kids to explore and expand their sense of self and the world under the guidance of caring adults.

College & Career Pathways

We support an integrated, youth-centered college and career pathway system to provide youth with the experiences, supports, and opportunities needed to follow a path of their choosing, leading us all to a more prosperous and equitable future.

Currently open for applications: Our President’s Discretionary Fund is a $1M annual fund is for small, one-time grants that support 501c3 nonprofits and public entities (school, church, or governmental units) that serve Detroit youth but fall outside The Skillman Foundation’s grantmaking priorities. This is a limited, highly competitive fund, allowing us to support Detroit youth in ways beyond our strategy.

Online Application: https://www.skillman.org/grant-partners/

Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Topic: Various
Program: Monuments Project
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $7,5000,000
Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Average grant for this program is $1,000,000. The Monuments Project is a five-year, $250 million commitment to reimagine and rebuild commemorative spaces and transform the way history is told in the United States. Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity: fund new monuments, memorials, or historic storytelling spaces; contextualize existing monuments or memorials through installations, research, and education; and relocate existing monuments or memorials. This is a five-year program, but Foundation Relations encourages early submissions.

Online application: https://www.mellon.org/resources