We serve communities based on where the Founder’s family lives and works.
We respect grantees, their leadership, and staff. Foundation interactions with grantees honor those grantees’ expertise and commitment to their work.
We support innovation and entrepreneurial ideas and solutions whenever possible in our grantmaking.
We favor creating leverage for our funders and we regularly support challenge and matching grant opportunities.
Our approach is rigorously focused on accountability and measurable outcomes.
We strive to be recognized for our leadership, sensitivity, and responsiveness to community needs.
We offer Foundation grantees both funding and, drawing on the Foundation’s internal expertise, other types of support that may help them achieve their goals.
We value feedback and honest critique of our work from grantees and community partners. We seek input and assessment from stakeholders to inform and improve our work.
We invest in “best in class” organizations with strong leadership and the capacity to scale. We pursue longer-term relationships with these partners and consider multi-year, capital investments where appropriate.
We are committed to providing more modest financial support to smaller organizations, which fill important roles in the community and show promise for future potential.
We understand the needs of not-for-profit organizations to seek general operating support and to conduct capital campaigns and we are open to providing this kind of support to organizations with whom we have a favorable funding history.