Gilead Sciences Adds $200 Million to Its Foundation’s Endowment, Pledges Support for People of Color and LGBTQ Youths

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Gilead Sciences

$200 million to add to the endowment of the Gilead Foundation and set up the Creating Possible Fund. The new fund will award grants to organizations that focus on health justice, especially issues that affect people of color and LGBTQ+ youths.

The biopharmaceutical company created its foundation in 2005.

Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation and the David and Inez Myers Foundation

$20 million to DigitalC, a nonprofit wireless internet provider, to expand access to its broadband internet service and connect 130,000 more households in need throughout the Cleveland metropolitan area.

The Mandel Foundation gave $15 million and the Mandel and Myers Foundations jointly gave the remaining $5 million.

Dalio Education and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

$8 million over 18 months to Compass Youth Collaborative, Our Piece of the Pie, and Roca Inc. to create coaching and mentoring opportunities for young adults ages 16 to 24 who are out of school or work in Connecticut.

Dalio Education has committed $4.5 million and the Hartford Foundation will give $3.5 million. The City of Hartford has pledged an additional $1.85 million to the effort.

NBA Foundation

$6 million across 22 grants to help create job opportunities, bolster career advancement, and advance economic empowerment for Black youths.

Lilly Endowment

$5.3 million over five years to Hartford Seminary to study how religious congregations had to adapt and develop new ministry practices as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

$2.5 million to the Campaign for Female Education for its programs to offer financial and social support for girls attending schools in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and help them complete their education.

This organization is the winner of the foundation’s 2021 Humanitarian Prize.

Lollapalooza Arts Education Fund

$2.2 million over five years to Chicago Public Schools to back arts education, with a focus on its schools that serve predominantly Black, Latinx, and low-income students and do not have arts programs.

George Family Foundation

$2.1 million to 22 organizations in Minnesota. The largest grant of $400,000 went to Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.

Windgate Foundation

$2.1 million to the Smithsonian American Art Museum to create an endowment that will be used to acquire artworks by living craft artists as well as pay for two predoctoral fellowships for scholars of American craft.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$1.5 million to NewTown Macon to support businesses owned by Black and women entrepreneurs in Macon, Ga.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

$1 million to Philanthropy Together to strengthen racial equity in giving circles. The grant includes $100,000 in microgrants to help giving circles build up their racial-justice and equity practices.

San Diego Foundation

$1 million pledge to create the San Diego Black Homebuyers Program, in partnership with LISC San Diego and the Urban League of San Diego County, to give grants up to $70,000 each to Black families who are looking to purchase homes in Southern California.

The commitment is coming through the foundation’s Black Community Investment Fund.

New Grant Opportunity

The Cummings Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its $25 Million Grant Program, which will award multiyear grants of $100,000 each to 100 nonprofit groups based in Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts. Another 40 previous grantees will receive 10-year grants ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 each. Letters of inquiry are due September 10.

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