Evjue Foundation Grants

Evjue Foundation Grants is sponsored by The Evjue Foundation, Inc.. The Evjue Foundation supports human services, education, nutrition & wellness, and community development. While not exclusively mental health, projects related to overall wellness and social services within Madison and Dane County are considered.

How the Evjue Foundation approaches grant requests | Evjue Foundation | captimes. com You have permission to edit this article. The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, will distribute grants in late spring under a set of guidelines adopted last year.

The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times, is not accepting grant applications any longer for 2026. We will open up in early January for our 2027 grant cycle. In 2023, the foundation’s board decided to better define the target areas for its giving.

Its goal was to enhance the foundation’s philanthropic impact and clarify priorities and procedures for applicants, and also to target those areas that were most important to William T. Evjue, the founder and longtime publisher and editor of The Capital Times. Mr. Evjue established the foundation in 1958 to support causes he and his wife, Zillah, cared most about, including the welfare of children as well as racial and social justice.

It has given more than $74 million to community causes over more than half a century. After Mr. Evjue died in 1970, his will directed that all of his voting stock in The Capital Times Co. be put in the newly created William T.

Evjue Charitable Trust. Each year, income from the trust is distributed to the Evjue Foundation, funding charitable contributions to worthy educational, cultural and charitable organizations in the newspaper’s circulation area. It was Mr. Evjue’s way of rewarding the communities that contributed to his newspaper.

The board decided in 2023 to prioritize future applications in categories it regards as most aligned with Mr. Evjue’s priorities. They include: Basic needs: Grants that help provide essentials such as food and supplies to people in need. Progressive goals: Grants that support progressive causes such as racial and economic justice and preserving democracy.

Community improvement: Grants that enrich the Madison community, such as programming for parks, community centers and libraries. Arts and culture: Grants that improve local arts and culture and make them more accessible. Education: Grants that advance education in all forms.

Journalism: Grants that help train future journalists and support sources of trusted information. The board also decided that it will not consider applications that “re-grant” Evjue monies. In other words, it will not fund applicants who redistribute the money to other organizations.

It will also not consider requests to fund these categories: institutions or causes outside Dane County, health care, animal care, private schools, startups or sports and recreation causes. The board also decided not to consider applications in which the Evjue Foundation would be the sole funder or in which the applying organization has not existed for at least two years.

Nor will it approve applications that benefit a single individual or a small number of people. The board’s more narrow areas of focus were prompted in part by changing economic conditions in the newspaper industry. Large grant applications are discouraged.

Past grants should not be seen as indicating future grant success. There are some longtime recipients of Evjue grants that fall under these now-restricted categories. The board may make special provisions for them at its discretion.

The board will review applications only one time per year. The window for 2026 applications is now closed and will open up for 2027 in January. The Evjue board consists of 15 people, including the seven members of the Capital Times Board of Directors, and four each from the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the Madison Community Foundation.

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