Please note that to be eligible to apply for a grant from OCCF, you must complete a Nonprofit Central profile.* Click here to create your profile and get started.
*This does not apply to the FEDCO Teacher Grant Program or to the TK Foundation Youth Sailing Program.
For more information about available grants, or to request the RFP, please contact Austin Muckenthaler at [email protected].
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:
2020 Grant Timeline
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:
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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:
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FEDCO Teacher Grant Program will not be accepting unsolicited proposals in 2020. Please check back in 2021 for an update.
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.
Partnership for the Care of Our Environment will not be accepting unsolicited proposals in 2020. Please check back in 2021 for an update.
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:
Conservation & Preservation:
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.
This year, in response to the impact of COVID-19, OCCF developed a Relief and Recovery grant strategy to align OCCF Field of Interest granting with the OC Community Resilience Fund to best respond to the current challenges of Orange County nonprofits by providing flexible core operating support. OCCF identified opportunities to support organizations providing health, education, and social service programs to women.