Angelica Foundation
P.O. Box 675814
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
92067-5814
Phone: 858/756-6756
Fax: 858/756-9452
Email: info@angelicafoundation.org
Website: http://www.angelicafoundation.org
Date Established: 1994.
Trustee(s) and Officer(s): Suzanne Brown, President; James D. Gollin,
Grants Advisor; Nancy Harris Campbell, Grants Advisor;
Purpose and Activities: The Angelica Foundation is a California-based
private foundation that supports progressive grassroots organizations that
empower communities to become more environmentally sustainable, culturally
rich, and socially just. The foundation awards grants to projects that foster
systemic change in economically disenfranchised or politically oppressed communities.
It also funds efforts that provide lucid, long-term responses to the destruction
of the natural environment. It directs its limited resources to the states
of California, New Mexico, and Hawaii.
International grants are given to non-governmental organizations in Mexico and Central America.
Priorities in the environment include public lands, wilderness conservation,
watershed and marine ecology, protection of native lands, endangered species,
environmental justice, and renewable energy and wood alternatives. Priorities
in social justice include ensuring reproductive freedom and economic development
for women; developing leadership and civic participation in economically marginalized
populations; advocating for the rights of immigrants; defending the human
rights and cultural integrity of indigenous peoples; promoting a fair, diverse
and publicly responsive media; and supporting grassroots peace initiatives
and military conversion. A limited number of arts-related grants will be awarded.
Special consideration will be given to innovative projects that foster community
cohesion and dialogue, and to those that preserve the heritage of culturally
threatened peoples.
Eligibility Requirements: Grant applications are by invitation only.
The foundation welcomes letters of intent of two pages maximum length, brochures,
and newsletters for informative purposes. If invited by the foundation to
submit a grant proposal, applicant must be a nonprofit agency with tax-exempt
status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code, and not
classified as a government agency, or a private foundation that can demonstrate
appropriate expenditure responsibility. Applicant must also be operated and
organized so that it does not discriminate in the hiring of staff or the provision
of services on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age,
national origin, or disability.
Deadlines: Contact foundation for more information.
Fiscal Information: Grants range from $2.5K to $10K.