Philanthropy news
Philanthropy News Digest publishes daily abstracts of original articles, press releases, and grantmaker communications about grants, initiatives, reports, and personnel changes.
Goldman Fund awards grants totaling $14.3 million in 2024
February 8, 2025The San Francisco-based foundation of Lisa and Douglas Goldman awarded grants to 209 nonprofits nationwide including the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, iCivics, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate....
DICK’S Sporting Goods commits $10 million to disaster relief efforts
February 8, 2025The commitment includes in-kind donations, a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross, a matching campaign at retail stores up to $1 million, and an ‘LA Strong’ apparel collection with all proceeds donated directly to the American Red Cross and the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation….
Mellon Foundation awards grants for university archives, preservation
February 7, 2025Grants were awarded to three higher education institutions in support of Indigenous culture archival efforts as well as digital preservation programs….
Report summarizes effects of K-12 homelessness, systems involvement
February 7, 2025Based on a comprehensive review of research published between 2010 and 2024, a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzes the factors that impact K-12 student success while experiencing foster care, the juvenile justice system, or homelessness....
Eagles Autism Foundation awards $8.1 million in grants
February 7, 2025Grants were awarded in support of 53 projects specializing in autism research and care….
University of Sydney receives $63 million for STEM program
February 7, 2025The gift from the Khuda Family Foundation will fund a 20-year, AUS$100 million STEM program for girls and young women....
Recent gifts, commitments toward fire relief aid top $200 million
February 6, 2025Proceeds raised from the FireAid benefit concert are expected to exceed $100 million, and Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner Mark Walter, the Walter Family Foundation, and the Dodgers Foundation have committed $100 million to launch LA Rises, a private-sector initiative to support wildfire recovery in Los Angeles....
Central Florida Foundation facilitates local journalism collaborative
February 6, 2025The six-month collaboration will enable news organizations in and around Orlando to share and cross-publish their reporting, with its first effort to focus on the local impact of Florida’s House Bill 1365, the Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping....
Growing Justice Fund awards $5 million for equitable food procurement
February 6, 2025In 2024, thirty-six grantees were awarded a mix of planning grants and implementation grants, with funding amounts ranging from $25,000 to $250,000….
Mount Nittany Health receives $5 million for specialty physicians
February 6, 2025The gift from Stephen and Patricia Benkovic, the largest in the history of the Mount Nittany Health Foundation, will establish the Benkovic Fund for Community Investment to address critical needs in specialty physician recruitment....
Seattle’s Memorial Stadium redevelopment project receives $30 million
February 5, 2025The One Roof Stadium Partnership—a public-private partnership that includes the One Roof Foundation, Seattle Kraken, and Climate Pledge Arena—aims to support the Memorial Stadium redevelopment project....
MacArthur Foundation awards $11 million for economic development
February 5, 2025Through the foundation’s Vital Communities grantmaking strategy, 10 Chicago-based organizations were each awarded $1.1 million in general operating support over four years....
Forbes’ top 25 philanthropists awarded $30 billion in 2024
February 5, 2025According to Forbes, the fortunes of the 25 biggest givers were largely buttressed by significant stock market returns, which fueled a combined increase in net worth to $1.6 trillion—18.5 percent over the last year....
Chicago’s Griffin Museum receives $10 million for restoration project
February 5, 2025The grant from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation well help the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry restore its historic south portico and increase accessibility at the museum’s entrance and public spaces....
Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded grants totaling $1.39 billion in 2024
February 4, 2025The Danish foundation, which controls its namesake pharmaceutical giant, provided funding to nearly 1,800 projects focused on global efforts to accelerate the green transition in agriculture and workforce development, engage with new technologies, and advance the treatment of heart disease in low- and middle-income countries....
Clooney Foundation announces 2025 Waging Justice for Women fellows
February 4, 2025In partnership with the Fund for Global Human Rights’ Legal Empowerment Fund, the Waging Justice for Women Fellowship will support and mentor 10 early-career African women lawyers to work at women’s rights and gender justice organizations across Africa....
Jazz bassist Marion Hayden named 2025 Kresge Eminent Artist
February 4, 2025The award to the 68-year-old Detroit-area musician, educator, and mentor—the youngest ever to receive the award—includes a $100,000 prize, the production of a short film, and publication of a monograph about her life....
Younger donors are issue-driven, technology-focused, report finds
February 4, 2025According to a report from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, giving across all generations has declined since 2008, and younger donors are more focused on supporting issues than on specific organizations....
Rockefeller Foundation commits $15.9 million for electricity in Africa
February 3, 2025Announced during the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, funding aims to support goals of the African Development Bank Group and World Bank Group to provide electricity access to 300 million Africans by 2030....
Gates Foundation awards $1.8 million to Australian research startup
February 3, 2025The grant was awarded to Cell Bauhaus, a University of Melbourne-affiliated research startup, in support of its work utilizing “digital twins” to investigate how genetic changes alter cellular behavior….
Scratch Foundation receives grants totaling $21 million
February 3, 2025The funding includes contributions from the Endless Network, Google, Siegel Family Endowment, and the LEGO and Gordon and Betty Moore foundations....
Collaborations help overcome polarizing differences, report finds
February 3, 2025The report from the Council on Foundations, Coming Together, Not Apart: Inside the Work of Turning Conflict Into Collaboration, is the second in a three-part series exploring philanthropy’s investment in helping Americans connect and collaborate across differences....
Atrium Health receives $2 million for cancer survivorship programs
February 2, 2025The gift from 24 Foundation will help expand the supportive oncology programs at Atrium Health’s Levine Cancer Institute and Levine Children’s in Charlotte….
Paramount Global ends funding for charitable arm, Save the Music
February 2, 2025The media giant is ending its nearly 30-year support for the nonprofit, and Save the Music is starting a $10 million endowment to sustain itself….
UMKC receives $4 million from Mellon Foundation for monument coalition
February 2, 2025The grant to the University of Missouri-Kansas City will support the historical preservation projects of 16 community organizations as well as public programming in partnership with the Kansas City Public Library….
