Advancing Social Change and Creating an Enduring American Legacy
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Our programs and investments prioritize creating pathways to opportunity by disrupting systems and providing access for all to a more equitable and sustainable future.
Grant Making
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Focus Areas
We have awarded roughly 80 grants across eight focus areas: Education; Cultural Preservation; Health; Music & Arts; Social Justice; Career Readiness; Environment; and Digitization. Taken together, Fund II Foundation grant-making works toward building a limitless future for all Americans.
The largest share of Fund II Foundation grantmaking has been in the area of Education, to which we have awarded nearly $100M (or 38% of our total). Education is the door that opens the worlds of self-discovery, self-sufficiency, and prosperity.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
By many measures, African American health outcomes are dismal when compared to American averages. From chronic illnesses and their treatment to maternal health and the COVID-19 pandemic, Black patients’ experiences often are harmed by ill-informed research and practitioners’ lack cultural competence. Moreover, Black and Brown communities face unique mental health challenges that are too often dismissed or viewed harshly.
The Health focus area, which represents 11 percent (roughly $29M) of Fund II Foundation’s total grantmaking thus far, seeks to improve these outcomes and to alleviate emotional and economic strife. Put simply, if our communities are not able to live healthy lives, they are not able to dream and achieve.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
For too long, the history of African Americans has been downplayed or dismissed, warping the perspective of all Americans about Black contributions to our country’s culture, society and economy.
Through our Cultural Preservation grantmaking—totaling nearly $40M (15% of total grants) to date—we seek to highlight Black excellence and to preserve and share key figures, works of art and locales that illustrate African Americans’ foundational role in the American story.
Our work seeks to offer Black and Brown youth those opportunities and experiences that will spark imagination, build confidence and develop the study habits that will guarantee future success.
The Fund II Impact
Fund II Foundation was established in 2014 for the purpose of making grants to public charities. To date, Fund II Foundation has made grants worth nearly $250 million to a broad range of charities.
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