Daily Featured Foundation - 2/22/26

2/22/2026

Here is today’s daily featured foundation.

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation

Website: https://ellafitzgeraldfoundation.org/

Mission & Purpose: To fulfill the desires of the "First Lady of Song" by using the fruits of her success to foster a love of music, provide music education, and offer basic needs support (health care, food, shelter) to disadvantaged populations.

Broad Funding Guidelines: This is a national foundation that supports nonprofit organizations working in music education, literacy, and human services. They are a premier source of arts grants for programs that provide instruments, instruction, and musical exposure to at-risk youth. Their grant funding is highly targeted toward helping the needy make better, more meaningful lives for themselves.

Featured Opportunity: Their "Scholars in Jazz" and broader instrumental music education grants provide vital funding. They frequently partner with universities and community music schools to provide scholarship grants and program support specifically for jazz studies, helping to cultivate the next generation of musicians.

Recommendation: A community-based music school or university jazz program seeking nonprofit grants to fund scholarships for talented, low-income instrumentalists or to purchase instruments for an after-school jazz band.