Furthur Foundation

Grant Information and Process

Thanks for your interest in the Furthur Foundation. Our executive director and our board of directors meet once a year, generally in the spring, to consider and select worthy causes. There is no deadline for applications.

Nearly all of our grants are between $1,000 and $5,000. This is not much money, and we therefore do not ask for much work from you.

The process goes like this:

Email with a one-paragraph query note to see if your project is appropriate for the foundation. We will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
If we respond positively, we will send another email with a request for certain details about the work.
If the proposal is accepted for consideration, we will fold it into a docket that is considered at our annual meeting
We send out the checks after the annual meeting

FYI, We tend to support smaller, grassroots and community-based organizations whose orientation is to apply the money directly toward realizing their goals.

These range from providing food and shelter to planting trees, from children's summer recreation programs to activist training camps, from educating about endangered plants to preserving the culture of endangered peoples.

What we do fund:: environmental issues, in particular the loss of habitat;; the poor, the homeless, and children in the Bay Area, with a special emphasis on personal development and education to provide them with the knowledge they'll need to bettedms that address the core of our community's ability to work together to make real change, regardless of the issue.
What we do not fund:: Individuals; Organizations without 501-(c)(3) status; Organizations with budgets over $1 million

Past Grantees

A partial list of previous grantees can be found by clicking here.

Furthur Foundation

Grant Information and Process

The process goes like this:

Past Grantees

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