APPLY FOR A GRANT

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is focused on innovative solutions that solve problems and improve the quality of life throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. As a new community foundation, we need time to examine the diverse needs across our region, evaluate the best practices of our parent foundations and incorporate community input before launching a new, regional grantmaking strategy. For the first year, we maintained the grant guidelines of the parent foundations and as February 15, 2008, we are no longer accepting grant applications under these guidelines. For the last 18 months, the community foundation continued to follow the grant guidelines of its parent foundations and awarded $11.5 million through that process. The last deadline was February 15th, and the final grants from that round will be awarded this summer. New endowment grant guidelines will be announced this fall.

Stay Informed

We encourage you to stay informed about plans for a new grantmaking strategy and other important news and announcements by signing up for our community e-newsletter, reading our FAQs and learning more about the Community Input Project.

In 2007, the community foundation awarded more than $242 million in grants; click here to read the press release. A list of organizations that received funding in 2007 through the community foundation’s endowment grantmaking can be found here. If you have questions, please contact us at grants@siliconvalleycf.org or 650.450.5400.