Eligibility & Restrictions

Eligibility

The Foundation supports:

  • U.S. not-for-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status

  • organizations utilizing a U.S. fiscal sponsor with 501(c)(3) status

  • not-for-profit organizations, including those outside of the U.S., with necessary documentation. Please contact the Delmas office to learn what the Foundation requires.

Grants to individuals are only provided via the Venetian Research Program.  Individual scholars should consult the guidelines for that program.

Restrictions

The Foundation does not support:

  • capital campaigns and building projects

  • overhead and indirect costs.

In general, awards are made for single-year, and not multi-year, projects. Very rarely does the Foundation support endowment campaigns, and then only where the objectives are clearly focused and very closely aligned to Foundation purposes.