National

Mission/Giving Statement: Turner Foundation is committed to preventing damage to the natural systems - water, air, and land - on which all life depends.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Safeguarding Habitat; Growing the Movement; Creating Solutions for Sustainable Living; Healthy Planet, Healthy Communities

Notes: The Foundation has an invitation-only grantmaking process. LOIs and unsolicited proposals are not accepted.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund advances social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.

Grantmaking Program Areas:  Democratic Practice; Sustainable Development; Peace & Security

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Democratic Practice: Seeks to strengthen democracy in the United States and in global governance.

Sustainable Development: Advances global stewardship that is ecologically based, economically sound, socially just, culturally appropriate, and consistent with intergenerational equality.

Peace & Security: Reflects the Fund's long lasting recognition of the complexities and possibilities that arise from global interdependence, and its enduring commitment to helping create the conditions for lasting peace in which justice and democratic governance prevail and sustainable development paths lead to shared prosperity in societies worldwide. 

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: List of restrictions available online.

Application Instructions: Grant compatibility quiz, LOI form, and instructions available online. 

Notes: In addition to the three thematic programs, the Fund has three place-based programs: Pivotal Place: New York City, Pivotal Place: Southern China, and Pivotal Place: Western Balkans. 

Mission/Giving Statement: The Christensen Fund believes in the power of biological and cultural diversity to sustain and enrich a world faced with great change and uncertainty. Its mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful and resilient.  

Grantmaking Program Areas: Landscapes, Livelihood & Foodways; Cultural Expression & Land; Education/Leadership/Networking

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Landscapes, Livelihood & Foodways: The persistence and adaptation of indigenous systems for managing landscapes that sustain cultural and biological value and diversity; and maintaining the diverse agricultural, hunting, gathering and cooking traditions that sustain community foodways, diets, livelihoods and wellbeing; including the traditional varieties of crops first domesticated in our geographic regions essential for the future of agriculture globally.

Cultural Expression & Land: Artistic and cultural expression--both traditional and contemporary--to maintain continuities of relationship with place and the experience of the natural world, including music, dance and associated expression.

Education/Leadership/Networking: "Bothways" education in indigenous societies that better enables people to access and value both heritage and innovation within their own societies, as well as engage richly with the rest of the world.

Application Instructions: Submit a pre-proposal via online form.

Notes: The Fund's Greater American Southwest founding covers the US Four Corners region and Northwest Mexico covering the Colorado Plateau and Delta, the Pueblo and Hispanic communities of the Rio Arriba/Rio Grande, the Sonoran Desert on both sides of the Mexican-US border (east of the Colorado River), and the Sierra Tarahumara.

Mission/Giving Statement: Lilly Endowment exists to support the causes of community development, education, and religion.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education; Religion; Community Improvement

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Education: Supports on an invitational basis efforts to improve higher education opportunities throughout the country for African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans.

Religion: Primarily aims to deepen and enrich the religious lives of American Christians, principally by supporting efforts to encourage, support and educate a new generation of talented pastors and to strengthen current pastors in their capacities for excellence in ministry. Grantmaking in this area is national in scope and done through the National Clergy Renewal Program.  The maximum award is $50,000.

Community Improvement: Efforts concentrated in Indianapolis and Indiana.  Grantmaking is focused on building and sustaining community foundations statewide and in building capacities of the state's United Way chapters.  In Indianapolis, the Endowment supports causes important to quality of life, from museums to homeless initiatives, the zoo to affordable housing programs, and arts organizations to public parks. 

Types of Funding/Funding Restrictions: The Endowment does not fund health-care projects, libraries, mass media projects, or endowments. Additional restrictions listed online.  

Application Instructions: RFPs posted in the fall.  LOI instructions online. The Endowment does not accept LOIs via email or fax. 

Notes: New Mexico funding has primarily gone to the Santa Fe Opera.

Mission/Giving Statement: The Foundation's grantmaking philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities, rather than be a source for narrowly defined projects. As such, it develops thoughtful, long-term collaborations with grant recipients and invests sufficient funds for an extended period to accomplish the purpose at hand and achieve meaningful results. 

Grantmaking Program Areas: Conservation & the Environment; Higher Education & Scholarship; Museums & Art Conservation; Scholarly Communications & Information Technology

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Conservation & the Environment: Plants Initiative - a partnership of more than 150 herbaria from over 55 countries working to create a database of high quality images of plant type specimens of primarily African and Latin American plants.

Higher Education & Scholarship: Supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen the institutions that sustain scholarship in the humanities and "humanistic" social sciences, primarily research universities but also a small number of centers for advanced study and independent research libraries. 

Museums & Art Conservation: Supports basic research intended to enable curators, conservators, and other professionals to devote intensive study to the objects in their care, and to make their knowledge and professional expertise available to others in new as well as in more traditional ways.

Scholarly Communications & Information Technology: Scholarly communications covers a broad range of activities, including the discovery, collection, organization, evaluation, interpretation, and preservation of primary and other sources of information, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly research.  Information technology includes the design, development, implementation, and support of computer-based systems for converting, storing, protecting, processing, retrieving, and transmitting information in electronic form.

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions: Unsolicited proposals are rarely funded.

Application Instructions: Grant inquiries should be made, by writing or email, to the appropriate program officer and program area.  LOI guidelines available online. 

Mission/Giving Statement: Across its operations, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, focuses on working with the communities in which it operates to develop partnerships with community organizations, fund projects designed to address priority needs, and contribute to the sustainability of each community.

Grantmaking Program Areas: Education & Training; Safety, Health & Wellness; Environment; Cultural Preservation & the Arts; Community/Economic Development

Grantmaking Program Area Descriptions:

Education & Training: Seeks to support education initiatives and institutions that develop, encourage and sustain student interest, learning and achievement at the primary, secondary and post-secondary levels.  In additions, it supports programs and institutions that facilitate work force readiness, job skills development, and teacher preparation or training.

Safety, Health & Wellness: Includes safe places for children and families, health/wellness and basic safety, family violence prevention and intervention.

Environment: Includes environment quality, conservation and management; and environmental education.

Cultural Preservation & the Arts: Seeks to support preservation efforts, arts organizations and programs that provide a forum to promote and respect local culture diversity, inspire innovation and creative thinking, and contribute to local quality of life.

Community/Economic Development: Supports organizations that work to build and maintain economic viability, while fostering the ability to solve local problems through cooperation. 

Type of Funding/Funding Restrictions:  Freeport-McMoRan does not fund grantmaking entities or organizations that may pose a conflict with the goals, programs, products or employees of Freeport-McMoRan and/or one or more of its subsidiaries.  Additional restrictions available online.

Application Instructions: Application and instructions available online. 

Notes:  Freeport-McMoRan's grants are limited to counties where it has an operating presence. Therefore, in New Mexico, grants are limited to Grant County.   

Notes:  Funding has gone entirely to opera and performing arts organizations.