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

2021 Grant Timeline

• Request for Proposals available: March 25, 2021
• Proposals due: April 15, 2021
• Grant decisions announced: June 2021
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022

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

2021 Grant Timeline

• Request for Proposals available: March 25, 2021
• Proposals due: April 15, 2021
• Grant decisions announced: June 2021
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022

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

2021 Grant Timeline

• Request for Proposals available: March 25, 2021
• Proposals due: April 15, 2021
• Grant decisions announced: June 2021
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022

Henry & Ellen Warne Family Fund – OCCF Equity in Education Grant Program

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 educational institutions.

The massive upheaval resulting from the pandemic and the myriad unprecedented educational challenges faced by students, teachers, and parents requires targeted support to schools and school districts most impacted. In response, OCCF is coordinating a special opportunity grant program to invite K-12 schools/districts to apply for funding to support advancing educational equity by providing services including but not limited to literacy, academic tutoring, mentoring, career exploration, mental health, and childcare in communities most impacted by the pandemic.

2021 Grant Timeline

• Request for Proposals available: April 5, 2021
• Proposals due: April 30, 2021
• Grant decisions announced: June 2021
• Grant funding period: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022 (Flexible based on project timeline)

Partnership for the Care of our Environment

Partnership for the Care of Our Environment will not be accepting unsolicited proposals in 2021. Please check back in 2022 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:

• 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.

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.

2022 Grant Timeline

• Requests for Proposals made available: September 27, 2021
• Requests for Proposals made available: September 27, 2021
• Requests for Proposals due: October 20, 2021 Grant decisions made: December 2021
• Grant funding period: January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022

Margaret E. Oser Fund for Women

For the 2021-2022 funding period, Oser funds will support organizations improving outcomes for women that were most impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic including women facing obstacles re-entering the workforce, women facing obstacles finding good/cost effective childcare options and women facing health issues brought on by pandemic.

Funding will be available to provide support to organizations assisting women in the following ways:

1. Employment support and placement services for women attempting to re-enter the workforce
2. Childcare services to assist women re-entering the workforce
3. Women’s Physical and Behavioral Health programs providing support to women facing issues brought on by the pandemic

2021 Grant Timeline:

• Request for Proposals available: June 25, 2021

• Proposals due: July 21, 2021
• Grant decisions announced: October 2021
• Grant funding period: October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022