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  • About your interest in a Fox Family Foundation grant

  • Types of Fox Family Foundation Grants


    General Operating Support

    • flexible, unrestricted funding that nonprofits can use however is needed to advance their missions
    • applicants may apply for up to three years of funding
    • requests from schools, departments, centers, etc. that are part of a larger institution will be awarded as a restricted grant (aka general operating support for [Department Name])
    • requests from departments, initiatives, programs, etc. that are part of a larger organization will be awarded as a restricted grant (aka flexible operating support for [Program Name])

    Capacity & Infrastructure Projects

    • restricted funding that nonprofits can apply to organizational development activities; new or updated infrastructure (e.g., technology, equipment, facility upgrades); or capital projects
    • applicants may apply for up to three years of funding

    Practical Needs

    • restricted funding that nonprofits can apply to one-time and short-term urgent and/or unexpected needs (i.e., not an ongoing need)
    • typically, one year of funding but may be multi-year if necessary
    • retroactive funding may be available if costs must be incurred after an application is submitted but before an award decision is made

    Special Projects

    • exceptional (uncommon) funding that falls outside of the Foundation’s general grantmaking preferences, emphasis, and/or funding areas
    • applicants will be notified if they should apply under this category

    Collaborating organizations may apply for any of the above grants.

  • You may request operating support for a specific department, initiative, program, etc. If so, should your grant be awarded, the grant will be restricted as flexible operating support for the unit named.

  • We use Candid's Philanthropy Classification System as the basis for defining our areas of support. Click below to see Candid's subject area classifications to assist in your response to the next question.

    Arts and Culture

    Education

    Health

    Human Services

  • Please limit your request to not more than one year of funding and no more than $10,000, unless Kate Shirah, the Foundation's executive director, has given you the go-ahead to do so.

  • Unfortunately, based on a response to a question on the previous page, you are not eligible to apply for a grant from Fox Family Foundation (see detail below). Should you have a question about this, please contact Kate Shirah at kshirah@foxfoundation.org. Please click the "Submit" button below to exit this form.

    • Organizations new to Fox Family Foundation or those who have not received funding from the Foundation in the past five years are required to meet with Kate Shirah, the Foundation's executive director, prior to submitting an inquiry. Meet-and-greets must be scheduled before March 15 to be considered for funding in the current year. You can schedule a meet-and-greet here.
    • Organizations must be based in Durham, Orange, or Wake County, NC, to apply for a grant from Fox Family Foundation.
    • Fox Family Foundation does not make grants to political or religious organizations.
    • Fox Family Foundation does not make grants to individual people looking for financial support.
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