Community Grant Program

Community Grant Program is sponsored by The Standard's Corporate Giving Program. The Standard's Corporate Giving Program focuses on Healthy Communities, Disability and Empowerment, Cultural Development, and Education.

Standard Charitable Foundation | Inside Philanthropy OVERVIEW: The Standard Charitable Foundation supports community development, education, disability organizations. Meanwhile the financial company’s corporate grantmaking supports health, people with disabilities, education, and cultural development.

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Throughout all of its funding areas, the Standard Charitable Foundation places special emphasis on helping individuals and families who have experienced a loss or setback, including a major disability or the loss of a family member, although this is difficult to corroborate via tax records. This funder, especially through the Charitable Foundation, which is a distinct entity, tends to support only a handful of nonprofits per year.

It accepts unsolicited applications on a rolling basis. PROFILE: Established in 2006 the Standard Charitable Foundation is the charitable arm of the financial company called The Standard. The Standard provides group and individual disability insurance, group life insurance, accidental death insurance, retirement plans, group dental and vision insurance, and other financial products.

The foundation seeks to “make a positive difference in the communities we serve by supporting community development, education, and disability organizations. ” Its grantmaking interest areas include Healthy Communities , Disability and Empowerment and Education and Advancement . Top funding priorities through these programs include homeless families, low-income youth, and people with disabilities.

The Standard has a corporate grantmaking program that is separate from the Standard Charitable Foundation. Corporate grantmaking areas include the same as the Charitable Foundation with the addition of the Cultural Development area.

According to the community philanthropy page of the company’s website, the philosophy of corporate charitable giving is “shaped by the same attributes that help make us a leading provider of financial services: integrity, commitment and doing things differently.

” The Standard’s corporate grantmaking program supports general operating support, program support, capital support, event sponsorship, exhibitions, performances, and productions. Grants for Community and Economic Development The Standard Charitable Foundation primarily makes grants for community and economic development, seeking “support, training and rehabilitation to individuals and families facing significant challenges” in Oregon.

In recent years, tax records indicate that its relevant funding priorities involve housing and homelessness, business development and economic education for youth. The Foundation supports financial education for young people, having given multiple grants to New Avenues for Youth’s social enterprise programs, as well as its homelessness programs.

Junior Achievement of Washington and SW Oregon is another recipient of youth-based economic education funding. The Foundation emphasizes community care for local veterans. In 2024, The Standard gifted $60,000 to the National Center for Healthy Veterans to support healthy life transitions.

Other recent grantees include include Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp, Portland Homeless Family Solutions, and Portland Youth Builders. Other Grant Opportunities According to tax records and the Foundation website, grants once prioritized disabled individuals and their families.

In recent years, the Foundation appears to have steered in other directions, but given the emphasis the Standard places on digital literature regarding this kind of funding, more funding for disability might be on the way. Foundation grants tend to range from $5,000 to $25,000, with the average of $10,000. Corporate grantmaking program grants tend to be between $500 and $25,000, with the average grant being $3,000.

Although the Foundation advertises these totals on its website, tax records indicate larger grants up to $50,000 made in the last few years. While the foundation does not place strict geographic restrictions on its funding, a significant amount of funding stays in the Portland, Oregon area, which is where the company is headquartered. The foundation provides general operating support, program support, and capital support.

The foundation and the corporate giving program both accept unsolicited requests for funding throughout the year with no deadlines. Grant decisions are communicated within four weeks of receiving a grant application and via email. Grant applications must be submitted via this online portal , which can be accessed on the funder’s website.

This funder does not fund political groups, advertisers, fundraising events, groups or organizations that will re-grant the foundation’s gifts to other organizations or individuals, or general operating support to hospitals and health care institutions. Direct general inquiries to the staff by phone at (971) 321-3162.

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