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Corporate and Foundation Relations staff circulate a monthly list of grant opportunities for faculty and staff. By making this information available, we encourage you to consider seeking corporate and foundation grant support. Subscribe to receive monthly emails.
To learn more about these opportunities or discuss foundations or corporations that do not have active RFPs, please contact Jared Mouro, Foundation Relations Specialist: ag4956@wayne.edu.
| Foundation | Program | Description | Award Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Society Foundation | Sustainable Peering Infrastructure Funding Program | We work with local communities to build IXPs in markets where they are needed, enhance existing IXPs to realize their full potential, and further develop organizations and communities that support peering and interconnection. Grant funds are available to assist in training, capacity building, community, local, and regional development, and equipment purchases (switches, optic modules, servers, and routers). The Internet Society’s work is partially funded by generous grants from Meta and ICANN. Our peering and interconnection work endeavors to: Further our 50/50 Vision to ensure at least half of all Internet traffic in emerging economies stays local by 2025 Online Application: https://www.grantforward.com/grant?grant_id=1022300&offset=4 | $70,000 | 3/27/2025 |
| Holley Foundation | Holley Foundation Grant | **Our Founder** George M. Holley, was a pioneer in the automotive industry. The company he founded, The Holley Carburetor Company, is a world leader in the development of fuel and ignition control systems. He lived in and centered his company operations in the Detroit Metro area. **Our Founder's Original Vision** He established the foundation in 1944. His expressed interest was "in helping young men and women who are 'up against it' to obtain an education." **Our Mission in the 21st Century** The Holley Foundation's mission is to support educational and family initiatives for youth, mainly in Southeastern Michigan, through innovative, well-structured programs that demonstrate positive outcomes. Online Application: https://www.theholleyfoundation.org/grants.html | $50,000 | 3/30/2025 |
| Ploughshares | Ploughshares Fund Grant | Ploughshares is committed to ensuring our grantmaking contributes to a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible (DEIA) nuclear field. As part of this commitment, we have updated all of our applications for funding to include a new set of questions related to DEIA based on the values that underpin our work. Any information provided will be maintained in a strictly confidential manner and is voluntary to provide. Choosing not to answer these questions will not negatively affect the outcome of your application for funding. Online Application: https://www.ploughshares.org/what-we-fund | $50,000 | 3/31/2025 |
| Internet Society Foundation | Connecting the Unconnected Funding Program | The Connecting the Unconnected funding program supports communities and local organizations working to build and expand Internet infrastructure to connect people living in rural, remote, and low-income areas. This includes initiatives such as community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and other forms of complementary access solutions. Program Objectives Online Application: https://www.internetsociety.org/funding-areas/connecting-the-unconnected/ | $5,000- $40,000 | 3/31/2025 |
| The Americana Foundation | The Americana Foundation Grants | **We support projects and organizations that positively impact people's lives by creating systematic and/or structural change.** The Americana Foundation supports partner organizations primarily through financial grants. Grants typically range between $10,000 and $25,000 and usually are awarded for a one-year period. We will consider grants larger than $25,000 and/or grants awarded for more than one year when necessary to the success of a project or program, and only when the grant directly aligns with the Foundation's priority interest areas. Grants awarded for a single project or program rarely exceed $50,000 in total. Requests for general operating support are approved only in extraordinary circumstances. **Our Mission** The Americana Foundation supports the sustainable development of agriculture and community food systems, the protection of natural resources, and an inclusive narrative of early American art and history. Online Application: https://americanafoundation.org/overview-grants/guidelines/ | $10,000- $50,000 | 4/01/2025 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | Dissertation Fieldwork Grant | This grant program funds doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas. Online Application: https://wennergren.org/program/dissertation-fieldwork-grant/ | $25,000 | 5/01/2025 |
| William T. Grant Foundation | Scholars Program | Must Coordinate with Foundation Relations. Opens 3/26/2025. The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers' expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community. Awards are based on applicants potential to become influential researchers, as well as their plans to expand their expertise in new and significant ways. The application should make a cohesive argument for how the applicant will expand his or her expertise. The research plan should evolve in conjunction with the development of new expertise, and the mentoring plan should describe how the proposed mentors will support applicants in acquiring that expertise. Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation s focus areas. Online Application: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program | $425,000 | 7/1/2025 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Grants | 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: Online Application: https://www.mott.org/grantseekers/ | $50,000 | Rolling |
| Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation | Grants | 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/ | $50,000 | Rolling |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Monuments Project | 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 | <$7,500,000 | Rolling for 5 years |
| Dresner Foundation | Youth and Family | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Foundation's Focus:
Online application: https://www.dresnerfoundation.org/program-areas/youth-programs/ | $100,000 | Rolling |
| Skillman Foundation | President's Discretionary Fund | 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:
Online Application: https://www.skillman.org/grant-partners/ | $10,000 | Rolling |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) | Equitable Communities Grants | 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 to 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 own problems and developing leaders capable of guiding change on this scale is 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 | <$1,000,000 | Rolling |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) | Thriving Children Grants | 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 | <$1,000,000 | Rolling |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) | Working Families Grants | 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 | <$1,000,000 | Rolling |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York | Democracy Program | 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.
Online Application: https://www.carnegie.org/grants/grantseekers/how-apply/ | $3,500,000 | Rolling |
| Ford Foundation | Ford Foundation Grants | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Makes grants in seven interconnected areas to help challenge inequality.
Online Application: http://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/ | <$25,000,000 | Rolling |
| Glaser Progress Foundation | Grants | 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. Email or Mail Application: http://www.glaserprogress.org/application/index.asp | $5,000,000 | Rolling |
| Hudson Webber Foundation | Grants for Detroit | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The Hudson-Webber Foundation invests in the success of community initiatives across our four mission areas, Community, Economic Development, Safe & Just Communities, Built Environment, and Arts & Culture. Online application: https://hudson-webber.org/how-to-apply/ | $10,000 - $2,000,000 | Rolling |
| Oak Foundation | Grants | In all 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: oakfnd.org/grant-making/ | $25,000- $7,000,000 | Rolling |
| Open Philanthropy | Course Development Grants | 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. Online Application: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/open-philanthropy-course-development-grants/ | $50,000 | Rolling |
| Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation | Grants | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Our Four Key Areas of Focused Investment:
Online application: http://www.ralphcwilsonjrfoundation.org/how-to-apply/ | $6,000,000 | Rolling |
| Hearst Foundations | Program Grants | 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. Online Application: https://www.hearstfdn.org/faq | $100,000 | Rolling |