The Ceres Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program.
Donor Name: The Ceres Foundation
State: California, Massachusetts
County: Berkshire County (MA), Franklin County (MA), Hampden County (MA), Hampshire County (MA), Los Angeles County (CA), Orange County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/23/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Types of Support
The goal is to make lasting investments and they value long-term collaborations, often awarding successive-year or multi-year grants. They primarily provide general operating support and capacity building investments as funding is intended to strengthen nonprofit organizations and to provide them with the flexibility to determine their spending priorities. However, they do sometimes earmark support for specific programs or initiatives.
Funding Priorities
They make lasting investments in nonprofit organizations demonstrating measurable outcomes that advance education and career pathways for historically underserved populations. The funding helps strengthen these organizations and provides them with the flexibility to determine their spending priorities.
- College Access & Success
- Initiatives to help historically underserved youth graduate high school, prepare for and get into college, and ultimately obtain a post-secondary credential. This includes academic persistence and support programs, mentoring and life skills development programs, and related youth development areas
- Career Pathways
- Post-secondary education, training, work-experience, or job placement programs that provide pathways to careers that offer sustaining wages and opportunities for advancement
- Family Strengthening
- Programs that deploy a two-generation approach by working simultaneously with children and parents to promote healthy parenting, prevent child and spouse abuse, build resilient families, and help achieve a level of stability essential to the ultimate attainment of broader education and employment goals.
Funding Information
Ceres median annual grant size is $70K and generally they only provide one grant per calendar year to any organization.
Eligibility Criteria
- They invest in strong leaders and support organizations that range from small grassroots efforts to more established programs. The grantees are all united in their passion to create long-term positive change for individuals and families. Ceres funds a mix of innovative and proven models, but all organizations must be able to demonstrate or have a plan to demonstrate measurable outcomes.
- They fund nonprofit organizations in LA + Orange County, CA, Washington, DC, and Western, MA focused on advancing education and employment outcomes for historically underserved youth through College Access & Success, Career Pathways, and Family Strengthening programs. Grantees must be 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations that are also described in IRS section 509(a)(1), 509(a)(2) or (in certain cases) 509(a)(3).
For more information, visit TCF.
