St. Croix Foundation for Community Development (SCF) is pleased to announce a transformative investment in St. Croix’s rich cultural landscape from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program.
Donor Name: St. Croix Foundation
Territory: U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/25/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Through SCF’s new Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant, more than half a million dollars will be awarded to St. Croix nonprofit organizations engaged in cultural place-keeping, arts, and humanities projects, allowing St. Croix Foundation to deepen the investment in preserving and celebrating the rich Crucian history, traditions and visions.
St. Croix Foundation’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program is a partnership between St. Croix Foundation and the Mellon Foundation that seeks to restore, amplify, and mobilize the humanities as a vehicle for healing and social transformation in St. Croix. Designed to empower arts and cultural initiatives that celebrate St. Croix’s rich heritage and foster cultural education, the program will support project-based grants, as well as general operating grants for organizations whose mission and programming explicitly center arts, culture, and heritage.
Grant Program Objectives
This grant is for arts and culture projects and organizations that contribute to place-keeping. SCF envisions place-keeping as the ongoing care, preservation, and celebration of a community’s cultural and historical identity, ensuring that local traditions, stories, and spaces remain relevant and accessible to current and future generations. Through this grant program, SCF aims to cultivate collective place-keeping impact by:
- Supporting innovative multi-generational projects that promote and preserve the arts, culture, heritage and natural environment – rooted in the place.
- Nourishing and emboldening St. Croix institutions dedicated to culture, heritage, and the natural environment.
- Fostering a diverse range of initiatives that exemplify the significance of place and community narratives.
Funding Information
- A total of $534,000 will be awarded through this grant program.
- Applications are invited for grants ranging from $10,000 to $75,000.
- Average awards will be approximately $40,000, with phased disbursements for most awards.
Grant Period
The project can be completed within the grant period of 12-18 months.
Project Eligibility
Funding will support projects focused on culture, arts, and heritage, aligning with the Mellon Foundation’s priorities of preserving and revitalizing community narratives and cultural assets, emphasizing the humanities’ role in shaping vibrant, resilient communities. In the case of non-profits whose entire mission and programming centers arts, culture and heritage rooted in the place, operating grant proposals will be considered. Applicants must demonstrate the following:
- The organization and/or project will identify, document, preserve, and/or interpret historically significant aspects of St. Croix’s People and Place.
- Depending upon the project scope, organizations may be required to provide the applicable proof of insurance, rights of ownership, etc. For example, a project that engages children may be required to have insurance; a project that includes creating a fixed asset in a building, such as a library, may require proof of ownership or permission from the owner.
Eligibility Criteria
The program will regrant funds to a diverse array of St. Croix nonprofits, encouraging innovative projects and organizations that promote cultural place-keeping. Eligible applicants for this grant opportunity include:
- 501(c)3 organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Nonprofits operating as a sponsored project of a 501(c)3 organization
- Please note nonprofit organizations must be based on St. Croix and demonstrate a history of prior engagement and impact on St. Croix.
- Territory-wide organizations are welcome to apply for services that are provided on St. Croix.
For more information, visit SCF.
