Quick Stats
- Grant Range: $250-$5,000 (Connection Grants)
- Geographic Focus: San Diego County, California
- Application Method: Competitive selection process (Partner Grants), application cycles (Connection Grants)
- Total Assets: $7,119,634 (tax year 2023)
Contact Details
- Website: https://kinshipfund.com
- Email: kim@kinshipfund.com
- Phone: (619) 713-9155
Funding Priorities
The Kinship Fund operates under the Nancy Neffson and Wetmore Family Foundation with a mission to build the resiliency and wellbeing of women and girls. They focus on three main areas:
- Education: Supporting the pursuit of education to end poverty
- Youth Justice: Interrupting youth incarceration
- Whole Person Health: Developing comprehensive wellbeing programmes
They partner with organisations that work to change systems that have historically oppressed marginalised populations and perpetuated mass incarceration, poverty, and prevented access to education.
What They Don't Fund
- Individuals or individual scholarships
- Organisations without 501(c)(3) designation or fiscal sponsorship
Application Process & Timeline
The Kinship Fund offers two grant programmes:
Connection Grants: Small grants ($250-$5,000) to nonprofit organisations for specific projects, needs difficult to fund through other grants, or to seed new ideas. Applicants must have 501(c)(3) designation.
Partner Grants: Multi-year collaborations with non-profit organisations in the San Diego region. Partner Grants support general operating expenses, capacity building efforts, specific projects, seed funding for new programmes, challenge or matching grant needs, and innovation-focused initiatives. Applications are accepted through a competitive Letter of Interest process.
The foundation encourages applications from small organisations in grassroots and formation stages of their work.
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