U. of Texas at Austin Gets $130 Million Boost From Moody Foundation (Grants Roundup)

By M.J. Prest
Senior Editor, Solutions

The University of Texas at Austin’s basketball arena is expected to open in 2022. University of Texas at Austin

November 13, 2019 | Read Time: 2 minutes

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Moody Foundation

$130 million to the University of Texas at Austin to build its new basketball arena, which is expected to open in 2022. The foundation also gave $100 million to Southern Methodist University for graduate programs, including a new building.

W.P. Carey Foundation

$125 million to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to strengthen academic programs, augment scholarships for historically underrepresented students, expand its pro bono legal-aid programs, and recruit faculty. It will be renamed the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in honor of the Carey family, many of whom are alumni. William Polk Carey, a 1953 graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business, founded W.P. Carey & Co., a finance firm in New York that focuses on corporate real estate. He died in 2012.

Apple

$50 million to Destination: Home for its efforts to address homelessness in California’s Silicon Valley. The grant is part of $2.5 billion in investments and grants the tech giant has promised toward combating the housing crisis in the area where it is headquartered.

LEGO Foundation

$20 million to four nonprofit groups to scale a program that teaches parents to use play to strengthen their children’s development in Bhutan, Guatemala, Rwanda, Serbia, and Zambia. Of the amount, Unicef is receiving approximately $9 million, and grants of roughly $4 million each are going to ChildFund International, Boston College School of Social Work’s Research Program on Children and Adversity, and Save the Children.

Home Depot Foundation

$3 million to U.S. Vets to support the Veterans Fund, a $10 million capital campaign to develop a housing community for military veterans and their families in Los Angeles.

Keith Haring Foundation

$2.5 million to the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center to endow a postgraduate fellowship for a nurse practitioner focusing on LGBTQ+ health.

Sikand Foundation

$1.3 million to California State University at Los Angeles for the Sikand Center for Sustainable and Intelligent Infrastructure within the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology.

BJ’s Charitable Foundation

$1 million to Feeding America for programs at 10 member food banks that support direct food access in the eastern United States, with special emphasis on mobile pantries and efforts to provide free food in schools.

New Grant Opportunity

The Rockefeller Foundation is accepting proposals for its Food System Vision Prize. The program will make 10 grants of $200,000 each to organizations working to improve the food system worldwide by the year 2050, with a focus on sustainability and delivering high-quality nutrition to people around the globe. The early-submission deadline is December 5, but proposals will continue to be accepted through January 31.

Send grant announcements to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy subscribers also have full access to GrantStation’s searchable database of grant opportunities. For more information, visit our grants page.

M.J. Prest has been writing about major gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Email M.J.

About the Author

M.J. Prest

Senior Editor, Solutions

M.J. Prest is senior editor for solutions at the Chronicle of Philanthropy, where she highlights how nonprofit leaders navigate and overcome major challenges. She has covered stories on big gifts, grant making, and executive moves for the Chronicle since 2004. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Huffington Post, and she wrote the young-adult novel Immersion. M.J. graduated from Williams College and after living in many different places, she settled in New England with her husband, two kids, and two rescue dogs.