Starr Foundation

Overview

The Starr Foundation makes grants in the following areas:

• Education: Traditionally has been one of the largest areas of giving for the Foundation, because of Mr. Starr's personal interest in providing scholarships to deserving students. The Foundation has endowed C.V. Starr Scholarship Funds at more than 100 colleges and universities and selected secondary schools. Applications for an endowed scholarship fund are accepted from schools on an invitation-only basis. The Foundation funds organizations that provide need-based financial aid to students seeking to attend secondary and post-secondary schools.
• Medicine and Healthcare: The Foundation's grants in these areas are far ranging, including capital grants to hospitals, significant research grants and grants to assist in the provision of healthcare to under-served communities in New York City and overseas. The Foundation plans to make more grants in the area of preventive healthcare inthe next few years. The Foundation does not provide funding for individual research projects and prefers to focus its project funding at New York City hospitals and research centers.
• Human Needs: The Foundation has made significant gifts to emergency food programs, job training, literacy programs, programs for the disabled and programs that provide emergency or transitional housing for the disadvantaged. The Foundation rarely funds local charities outside of New York City but may fund national organizations that serve communities within and outside of New York. The Foundation's human needs grants abroad include refugee and relief efforts, the provision of medical care and microenterprise development.
• Public Policy: The Foundation has concentrated its giving in the area of public policy on international relations and the promotion of the rule of law and democratic institutions around the world.
• Culture: The Foundation has made significant grants since its inception both to large cultural institutions such as museums and to small, community-based arts groups providing special services to specific populations, such as the elderly and the disabled. The Foundation funds cultural exchange organisations that further Mr. Starr's interest in international relations and understanding. The Foundation rarely funds documentaries or film projects and will not fund individual artists.
• The Environment: The Foundation funds selected organisations working on issues relating to the environment and conservation.

How to Apply

GT Team - 10 May 2012 - From Starr Foundation Website

THE FOUNDATION NO LONGER
ACCEPTS UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS

The Foundation makes grants on a national and international basis and solicits specific organizations to submit proposals for funding.

Meetings with grantseekers are arranged only if we anticipate serious consideration of a proposal or when essential to the determination of a response. Thus, meetings with grantseekers will not be scheduled unless we have invited at least a preliminary proposal or inquiry and the Review Committee of the Board has authorized the staff to pursue the proposal.

Please DO NOT send unsolicited materials to the Foundation—Thank you.