OVERVIEW: The Peter Douglas Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education and health. It also earmarks funds for other community causes in Santa Barbara.
IP TAKE: The Peter Douglas Foundation does not maintain a website, which restricts transparency about grantmaking strategies and guidelines. Grantmaking mainly serves education and health organizations based in Santa Barbara. Local organizations may gain a foothold by networking with past grantees. This is not an accessible or transparent funder. It does not accept unsolicited applications and prefers a broad, but proactive funding approach. It also doesn’t making contact easy, providing only an address for snail mail.
PROFILE: Established in 2015, the Peter Douglas Foundation was founded by producer Peter Douglas, a son of late actor Kirk Douglas. Peter began his career as a production manager and founded his production company, Vincent Pictures, in 1978. He also served as president of The Bryna Company, where he was responsible for the development and production of television, cable and pay-per-view programming, as well as the international distribution of a motion picture library.
The foundation does not maintain a website, which makes it difficult to locate further information on its grantmaking strategies. Tax filings suggest that the Peter Douglas Foundation primarily funds grantmaking related to education, health and community development in Southern California.
Grants for Education
The Peter Douglas Foundation’s education grants tend to support the same K-12 and higher education recipients year after year. Grantees include Santa Barbara’s Laguna Blanca School, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara and the University of California Santa Barbara. Outside of California, grants have gone to the University of Pennsylvania.
Grants for Public Health
A significant portion of Douglas’s grantmaking supports health initiatives and services in Southern California. Grant recipients include the St. John’s Health Center Foundation of Santa Monica, the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara’s VNA Health Foundation and the Clearity Foundation, which “strives to improve the survival and quality of life of women with ovarian cancer.”
Grants for Food Systems and Community Development
The Peter Douglas Foundation also supports organizations that are responsive to the needs the Santa Barbara community. One recent grant supported the development of Santa Barbara’s first fully-inclusive playground by the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation. Another grant supported the Unity Shoppe, which distributes groceries and other basic needs to “seniors, families, and homebound individuals in need.” Other grants have gone to the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County, the Conflict Solutions Center of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Fire Fighters’ Alliance.
Important Grant Details:
Grants mainly range from $1,000 to $75,000, although the foundation occasionally makes larger donations for higher education.
Grantmaking mainly supports organizations based in Santa Barbara.
Education and health are this funder’s main giving areas.
This funder does not accept unsolicited proposals for funding.
For additional information about past grantmaking, see the foundation’s recent tax filings.
This funder does not provide a direct way of getting in touch, but an address and phone number are provided below.
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CONTACT:
Peter Douglas Foundation
c/o NKSFB LLC.
10960 Wilshire Blvd., Fl 5
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-277-4657
