Daily 3 Foundations - 9/10/25
9/10/2025
Here are today’s daily 3 foundations.
The Bullitt Foundation
Mission and Purpose: The foundation's mission is to safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Pacific Northwest region, known as the Emerald Corridor (from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR).
Broad Funding Guidelines: The foundation uses its resources in a catalytic way to support innovative and high-leverage opportunities. It supports a variety of tactics, including legal challenges, coalition-building, and public education, to advance policy innovations and enhance political power for environmental change.
Website: bullitt.org
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Mission and Purpose: Rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice, the foundation is committed to creating a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society. It focuses on finding solutions to the climate crisis and growing inequality.
Broad Funding Guidelines: The foundation supports organizations that work on racial, economic, and environmental justice. Its grant-making focuses on fostering civic engagement, addressing the racial wealth gap, combating environmental harms in frontline communities, and developing regenerative economic models.
Featured Opportunity: The foundation offers "Venture Grants" of up to $100,000 for one year to support innovative, short-term solutions, and "Advancement Grants" of up to $250,000 annually for two years to support project-based work and scale organizations.
Website: nathancummings.org
The Scherman Foundation
Mission and Purpose: The foundation invests in the economic, political, and cultural transformation necessary for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities to reclaim and build power.
Broad Funding Guidelines: The foundation's grant-making is centered on organizations that are accountable to or directed by BIPOC communities. It focuses on movement-building strategies and advocacy to achieve structural change in economic, political, and cultural systems. It does not consider grants for specific events or productions.
Website: scherman.org
