The Foundation’s funding interests span a range of programs that predominantly support organizations in the greater Washington, DC region, as well as some organizations with a national scope. Follow the links below to view our recent grants in each program area.
DC Community
The England Family Foundation was founded in and remains committed to the local Washington, DC community.
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DC Community Grants
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- Ayuda
- Bread for the City
- Building Bridges Across the River
- Capital Area Food Bank
- Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition
- Children’s Law Center
- Community of Hope
- DC Central Kitchen
- DC Greens
- Diverse City Fund
- Goodwill
- Greater Washington Community Foundation
- Martha’s Table
- Mary’s Center
- Miriam’s Kitchen
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The Foundation supports mission driven partners that are deeply-rooted in DC and serve historically excluded communities, particularly those East of the River and Immigrant populations. This includes community clinics, food access/justice, workforce development, economic opportunity, and legal assistance.
Arts & Culture
DC Community Grants
Arts & Culture
- Critical Exposure
- Life Pieces to Masterpieces
- Phillips Collection
- Project Create
- Sitar Center for the Arts
- Washington Ballet
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The Foundation primarily supports grassroots organizations providing on-going, high-touch arts enrichment programming IN community, serving traditionally under-represented youth year-round.
DC Statehood
The Foundation supports 501(c)(3) efforts to obtain DC Statehood and the basic right for DC to have voting representation in Congress. For more than 200 years, residents of DC have been subjected to systemic inequality and denied the full rights of citizenship. The time is long-overdue to right this historic wrong.
Education & Youth-Development
DC Community Grants
Education & Youth-Development
- Center for Inspired Teaching
- Columbia Heights Educational Campus (Lincoln/Bell)
- DC Action
- DC College Success Foundation
- DC Public Education Fund
- DC Scores
- Education Forward
- Goodwill Excel Center (Public Charter School)
- Higher Achievement
- Latin America Youth Center
- Literacy Lab
- One World Education
- Posse DC
- Reach Inc.
- WISE Center at Georgetown MedStar
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The Foundation believes that every child has potential, regardless of zip code, race, and circumstances, and our work in this area is fundamentally a pursuit of racial justice. As we work to close the opportunity gap, our investments include both in-school as well as out-of-school-time interventions. Funding is exclusive to Washington, DC.
Justice Reform
DC Community Grants
Justice Reform
- Changing Perceptions
- Community Mediation DC
- Council for Court Excellence
- DC Justice Lab
- Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
- The Hope Foundation Re-Entry Network
- Impact Justice
- The National Re-entry Network for Returning Citizens
- Women Involved in Reentry Efforts (WIRE)
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The Foundation recognizes that in order to have equitable justice reform, the city must end the over-criminalization of Black and other people of color in the District and provide authentic support to and with all returning citizens. As a new funding area to the Foundation, we seek to understand community priorities, centering the voices of those with lived experience, and to support advocacy as well as high-quality reentry services for successful reintegration back into the community.
Gun Violence Prevention
Gun Violence Prevention
- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
- Community Justice Action Fund
- Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence
- Gun Violence Archive
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The Foundation views gun violence as a public health crisis and ultimately seeks to save lives and improve communities throughout the country through common-sense gun violence prevention work. As a funding area new to the Foundation, inaugural grants support advocacy, research, education, and community-based organizing in order to reduce gun injuries and deaths.
Jewish Community Life
Rooted in the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (“Repair the World”), the England Family Foundation is proud to support organizations working in the following areas:
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Jewish Community Life
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The Foundation supports mission driven partners, valued by the trustees, that are deeply-rooted in the greater Washington Jewish community as a manifestation of their responsibility to support Jewish communal infrastructure.
Combat Anti-Semitism
Jewish Community Life
Combat Anti-Semitism
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The Foundation believes in the importance of promoting a positive view of Jews and of Israel through advocacy, education and dialogue.
Tikkun Olam
Jewish Community Life
Tikkun Olam
- Avodah
- Collaborative for Jewish Organizing
- Edlavitch DCJCC
- Jews United for Justice
- Religious Action Center / Union for Reform Judaism
- Sixth & I
- Tzedek-DC
- Yachad
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The Foundation supports organizations committed to improving the situation of underserved populations and people in crisis. To this end, they support organizations committed to engaging the Jewish community and others in this work.
Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- National Network of Abortion Funds
- Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
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The England Family Foundation cares deeply and believes that all people should have the rights and resources to make and act on decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. The England Family Foundation provides support to help ensure high quality, safe, affordable, and accessible reproductive medical care and education in Washington, DC and beyond, particularly for low-income women of color. In addition, the Foundation supports legal efforts to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights across the United States.
Voting Rights
The Foundation seeks to increase participation in every election and close the race and age gaps in voting. Crucial information and resources are to be provided so that voters can safely exercise their right to vote. In order to combat voter suppression, the Foundation feels an imperative to provide all of the tools necessary to create a more informed electorate prepared to exercise this right.
Family Legacy
Family Legacy
- Arena Stage
- Barker Adoption Foundation
- Dana Farber
- Holocaust Museum
- IONA Senior Services
- Israel Religious Action Center
- Kennedy Center
- Lymphoma & Leukemia Society
- Michael J. Fox Foundation
- Montgomery Hospice
- National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Us Against Alzheimer’s
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During their lives, Lois and Dick generously contributed to hundreds of organizations annually. As a way to continue honoring their legacy, the Foundation provides support to select causes that may lie beyond the scope of the Foundation guidelines. In addition, each family member is able to make individual discretionary grants to organizations.
Sector Support
Sector Support
- Catalogue for Philanthropy
- Candid
- Coalition for Nonprofit Equity
- Compass Greater Washington
- Greater Washington Community Foundation
- Jewish Funders Network
- Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
- Washington Area Women’s Foundation
- Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers
- Washington Regional Food Funders/Chesapeake Bay Funders Network
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Recognizing that no single foundation nor leader can do it alone, as a member of the philanthropic community, the England Family Foundation supports and participates in several sector-wide organizations, collaboratives, working groups, and collective initiatives. Together with many of our funding colleagues, we are working toward a “new normal” – rooted in equity, justice, and our shared humanity – that helps build a more racially just society where everyone can thrive.
COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 Response
- Arts Forward Fund
- Ayuda
- Bread for the City
- Capital Area Food Bank
- Community of Hope
- DC Central Kitchen
- DC Education Equity Fund
- DC Greens
- Diverse City Fund
- Goodwill
- Greater Washington Community Foundation Emergency Response Fund
- Jewish Social Service Agency
- Jews United for Justice
- Latin America Youth Center
- Life Pieces to Masterpieces
- Martha’s Table
- Mary’s Center
- Miriam’s Kitchen
- Montgomery Hospice
- Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
- Thrive
- Tzedek- DC
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In 2020, the Foundation awarded grants in direct response to the overwhelming impact of the COVID-19 crisis. learn More about our response.