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.