The Shumaker Family Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry for its Social Justice and Education Grants.
Donor Name: Shumaker Family Foundation
State: Missouri
City: Kansas City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $40,000
Details:
Amount of Grants
Generally, the grants range in size from $10,000 to $40,000.
Geographic Factors
- All grants in the Social Justice and Education categories go to organizations in the Kansas City region, where site visits can be made within a day.
- Environmental Justice grants are increasingly based in the KC area (MO and KS), though we may consider some systems-level programs that are national in scope.
Criteria
- They fund only organizations with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status or with a nonprofit fiscal agent.
- They support programs and organizations that promote peace and justice and demonstrate respect and appreciation for human diversity in all its forms, such as race, culture, religion, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and social class.
- Many times projects require 2 or more years to come to completion, and we are open to renewing a grant twice, with these conditions:
- The project must show adequate progress in relation to proposed accomplishments to receive subsequent-year funding; and
- The Foundation must have adequate grant funds available to renew the grant.
- An organization that has received 3 consecutive years of funding from us must reapply with a full application process starting with an invitation to apply or a full Letter of Inquiry (LOI).
- Renewals require a shorter application but are not a given. Please do not assume a grant will necessarily be renewed.
- They fund some organizational strengthening projects, such as capacity-building or operating funds, when we are satisfied that an organization has prepared itself to attain the next level of effectiveness.
- They prefer not to be the sole or majority funder for an organization, program, or project.
- They strongly prefer to do a site visit before considering an organization’s application.
- Their Social Justice grants promote welfare of groups of people who have been disadvantaged. They specifically focus on domestic violence and child abuse prevention and the development of leadership capability among people from disadvantaged groups.
- Environmental grants go to organizations that promote conservation, sustainability, and animal welfare, and/or educate human beings to work toward these purposes.
- For Education grants, they favor projects that strengthen STEM/STEAM education and early childhood education programs for underserved communities, as well as programs that strengthen the education process.
What they Don’t Fund
- Individuals
- Organizations that are not registered not-for-profits or their equivalents
- Projects of any organization that participates in activities harmful to the environment
- Projects of any organization that participates in activities that promote violence
- Organizations or programs that discriminate on the basis of race, culture, religion, gender, ability, sexual orientation, or social class
- Organizations that promote a particular religion
- Organizations that seek to convert people from one religion to another
- Organizations that make any particular religious observance a condition of receiving food, shelter, or other resources
- Annual campaigns
- Special events
- Organizations based outside the United States
- Local animal shelters or animal rights organizations outside of KS and MO.
For more information, visit Social Justice and Education Grants.
