Through the Programs & Services grants, Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation seeks to support projects or initiatives that are new to an organization or that enhance, expand, or adapt existing activities.
Donor Name: Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation
State: Massachusetts, New York
County: Barnstable County (MA), Dukes County (MA), Erie County (NY), Essex County (MA), Nantucket County (MA), Niagara County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation is interested in funding requests that address the needs of young people affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health challenges, and substance use disorders who also have intersecting identities as members of historically marginalized communities (e.g., Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, disability, housing insecure, immigrant/refugee, LGBTQIA+).
Goals
- Intellectual Disabilities Goals
- Children with intellectual disabilities are identified early and receive services that meet their evolving needs.
- Young people with intellectual disabilities are engaged in meaningful social, vocational, and educational pursuits.
- Families understand intellectual disabilities and secure needed supports.
- Communities embrace persons with intellectual disabilities and provide them with a full-range of supports and opportunities to engage in community life.
- Learning Disabilities Goals
- Children with learning disabilities are identified early, diagnosed and connected to services that meet their on-going individual needs.
- Youth with learning disabilities understand how they learn and pursue resources that support them accordingly.
- Young adults are confident and do not view their learning disability as a liability
- Young adults with learning disabilities are ready for work and/or educational pursuits
- Families are informed about learning disabilities and are able to identify and navigate available services.
- Communities value persons with learning disabilities and accommodate their needs.
- Mental Health Goals
- Stigma related to mental illness is eliminated.
- Children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are identified early and connected to appropriate services.
- Young people with mental health challenges understand and manage their conditions and behaviors.
- Families understand mental health challenges and help members live productive lives.
- Communities offer meaningful opportunities and appropriate support to young people with mental health challenges and their families.
- Substance Use Disorder Goals
- Community members understand the prevalence and harmful effects of alcohol and drugs, and work to address them.
- Resources for substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery are readily available.
- Families provide safe environments that support healthy and informed choices about alcohol and drugs.
- Young people make healthy and informed choices about alcohol and drugs.
Funding Information
- A total of $2.8 million is available for 2025 Programs & Services grants, with $1.4 million awarded in each of two grant cycles.
- The Tower Foundation is open to multi-year grants with budgets typically ranging from (but not limited to) $15,000 to $50,000 per year. The most competitive applications are likely to be no more than three years and fall at or below $150,000 in total (including administrative overhead).
Eligibility Criteria
- Foundation will ONLY make grants to organizations CURRENTLY PROVIDING SERVICES in one or more of these regions:
- Massachusetts: Barnstable County, Dukes County, Essex County, Nantucket County
- New York: Erie County, Niagara County
- At a minimum, grant applicants MUST CURRENTLY PROVIDE prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services to people aged 26 years or younger from at least one of these populations:
- People with intellectual disabilities (including those on the autism spectrum)
- People with specific learning disabilities
- People with mental illness/mental health challenges
- People with substance use disorders
- It’s easiest for them to accept grant applications from:
- Not-for-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) designation that are not private foundations;
- Not-for-profit public benefit corporations;
- Public or diocesan school districts; or
- Private or charter schools.
- The ideal grant partners serve one or more of the populations listed above who also have intersecting identities as members of historically marginalized communities (e.g., Black/AfricanAmerican, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, disability, housing insecure, immigrant/refugee, LGBTQIA+).
- While organizations may have more than one active grant with the Foundation at any given time, they are likely to give preference to organizations that have not received a grant award recently. If they decline a funding request, your organization may reapply as soon as the following cycle.
For more information, visit P&ETF.
