Macauley Foundation

OVERVIEW: The Macauley Foundation largely supports improving children’s health and health outcomes in developing countries.

IP TAKE: Macauley is an approachable, but quiet funder that offers modest grants that makes it well-suited to smaller organizations that seek to affect change at a local level. This funder’s grantmaking is undergoing a site redesign and grantmaking transformation, which may effect grantmaking signficantly, so check their site often.

PROFILE: The Macauley Foundation was established by the late Bob Macauley, his wife Leila, and their children. The Macauley’s are also the founders of the AmeriCares Foundation, which has been providing disaster and medical relief both domestically and abroad for over two decades.

Macauley’s previous approach to grantmaking is broad, and its former website only states that its “sole purpose” is to support NGOs that “[e]xemplify compassion for human kind and are committed to improving lives the world over;” however, tax filings reveal areas of interest that recall those of the AmeriCares Foundation. Macauley has supported global health concerns related to children in developing and least-developed countries around the world. 

Important Grant Details:

The foundation only makes a handful of grants, which range from $5,000 to $30,000. The foundation also heavily supports AmeriCares, which often receives the largest of Macauley’s annual grants.

Macauley does accept unsolicited grant applications and encourages grant seekers to get in touch at (203) 263-3816.

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