Jane Deming Fund

The Jane Deming Fund is a permanent endowment at the Orange County Community Foundation. This grant program reflects Jane Deming’s commitment to charities located in Orange County that are producing, participating in, performing or supporting musical activities, or musical education. Due to her passion to improve the lives of under-served youth and her love of classical music, special consideration will be given to programs that:

• Involve stringed instruments
• Provide tuition for music camps and workshops
• Purchase musical instruments for promising music students
• Produce musical performances reaching new or under-served communities

2019 Grant Timeline

• Request for Proposals available: March 18, 2019
• Proposals due: April 17, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: June 2019
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020

Robert & Doreen Marshall Fund for Dramatic Arts & Classical Music

The Robert and Doreen Marshall Fund for Dramatic Arts and Classical Music is a permanent endowment fund at the Orange County Community Foundation. This annual competitive grant program reflects the Marshall’s love of classical music and performing arts. Funding priorities include support of dramatic arts and classical music programs in Orange County with a special emphasis on the following:

• Opera, choral and symphonic performances
• Dramatic arts performance groups
• Arts education for youth regarding dramatic arts and/or classical music

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: March 18, 2019
• Proposals due: April 17, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: June 2019
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020

San Clemente History, Arts & Culture Fund

The San Clemente History, Arts & Culture fund is a permanent endowment at the Orange County Community Foundation. This grant program reflects the anonymous donor’s commitment to charities located in, or providing services in San Clemente that are providing one or more of the following elements:

• Producing arts & culture activities
• Participating in arts & culture activities
• Performing Arts
• Arts Education

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: March 18, 2019
• Proposals due: April 17, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: June 2019
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020

FEDCO Teach Grant Program

The Orange County Community Foundation, in partnership with the FEDCO Charitable Foundation, provides grants for full-time Orange County public school teachers serving students from Kindergarten through 12th grade. FEDCO teacher grants provide up to $750 per teacher for hands-on classroom projects or field trips that bring “learning to life.” Priority is given to schools in underserved communities and/or have a high percentage of students that quality for free and reduced lunch programs.

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Applications available: September 4, 2019
• Applications due: October 15, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: December 2019
• Grant funding period: December 1, 2019 – June 1, 2020

To apply, click here: https://oc-cf.academicworks.com/opportunities/flexible

TK Foundation – Youth Sailing

The TK Foundation is looking for youth sailing programs that do this through a combination of program criteria that aim to:

1. Offer an ongoing educational experience

Programmatic elements may include: Instruction, mentoring, and educational field trips

2. Promote responsibility

Programmatic elements may include: Internships, or other types of work-related, hands-on experience

3. Promote leadership skills

Programmatic elements may include: Volunteer opportunities, peer mentorship, or advocacy

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Proposals due: February 15, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: Mid March

• Grant funding period: March 1, 2019 up to February 29, 2021

Partnership for the Care of our Environment

The Orange County Community Foundation is pleased to continue its support of environment education programs and the creation or support of trails and open space.

Environmental Education:

• Hands-on education programs, delivered in coordination with school science curriculum, to students either in class or in the field by environmental organizations. Preference may be given to programs that encourage and incorporate parental involvement.
• Programs that increase awareness and understanding about energy, water, conservation of natural resources and other pressing resource issues which prepare children and adults to effectively address these issues throughout their lives.

Conservation & Preservation:

• Creation or support of urban parks, gardens, greenways, trails and rivers.
• Development or support of environmental sustainability programs – e.g. hydroponics, development of innovative drought solutions, programs that reduce waste.

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: September 23, 2019
• Proposals due: October 23, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: December 2019
• Grant funding period: January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020

Henry W. & Ellen R Warne Family Endowment Fund for Endangered Species

The Henry W. & Ellen R Warne Family Endowment Fund was founded at the Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF) as a permanent endowment that reflects the Warne Family’s commitment to protecting and promoting the protection of endangered species. Orange County’s endangered species and their ecosystems face significant ecological threats, which include increased population and housing development, habitat fragmentation/destruction, climate change, and recreational impacts. This fund seeks applications from qualified non-profit organizations, or groups of organizations, which focus on one or more of the following goals:

Goal 1: Improve health and resilience of critical coastal endangered species ecosystems

Outcomes in the CSS ecosystems and EEL ecoregion under this goal include increased leveraged funds for habitat improvement, increased capacity for climate adaptation planning, increased acres of connected endangered species habitat through acquisition and/or restoration, and increased new acres of endangered species habitat secured.

Goal 2: Sustain or increase coastal endangered species populations

Outcomes in the CSS ecosystem and EEL ecoregion under this goal include stronger partnerships with key multi-sectoral organizations to support adaptive management and science-based decision-making and increased endangered species populations in new and existing habitats.

2019 Grant Timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: September 23, 2019
• Proposals due: October 23, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: December 2019
• Grant funding period: January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020

Frank & Ruth Bila Charitable Fund

The Frank and Ruth Bila Fund is a legacy grant program that was established, in part, to help support nonprofit hospitals within Orange County, California. For the 2019 grant cycle, funds will support the following:

• Nonprofit hospitals located in Orange County, CA who provide care for the needy ill in Orange County, conduct research, research experimentation or research training in Orange County, or for the acquisitions of equipment or development of facilities to be used in Orange County.
• A nonprofit hospital, for the purposes of this grant, is described as not owned by an organization or persons, directly or indirectly, which fail to meet the nonprofit requirements of the IRS Code and the laws of the State of California.

2019 Grant timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: July 1, 2019
• Proposals due: July 31, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: September 2019
• Grant funding period: October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020

James Mock Jr. & Anna Mock Memorial Endowment Fund

The James Mock Jr. & Anna Mock Memorial Fund will not be soliciting proposals for the 2019-2020 grant cycle.

The James Mock Jr. & Anna Mock Memorial fund was established in 2004. The intention of the James Mock Jr. & Anna Mock Memorial Fund is to provide support to homeless children.

Margaret E. Oser Fund for Women

The Margaret E. Oser Fund for Women is a permanently endowed field-of-interest fund of the Orange County Community Foundation.  To fulfill Mrs. Oser’s philanthropic intent, grants are made annually to organizations that directly benefit the lives of women.  Since it was established at OCCF in 2005, the Margaret E. Oser Fund for Women has granted over $5 million to help support women.

For the 2019-2020 funding period, Oser funds will support organizations improving outcomes for pregnant and parenting women affected by substance abuse, mental health, and/or domestic violence. This includes organizations implementing or enhancing evidence-based programs or practices (e.g. trauma-informed care), aftercare, and recovery supports.

2019 Grant timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: June 17, 2019
• Proposals due: July 24, 2019
• Grant decisions announced: October 2019
• Grant funding period: October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020