Mitchell Kapor Foundation

How to apply, from its 2024 IRS return

How to ask

We have a paper-free process, so all grant requests must be submitted using our online application. Applicants must have a conversation with the appropriate foundation staff before submitting a grant request. We usually follow-up with a phone call or site visit to organizations we are interested in supporting before making a recommendation to our board, which meets regularly to consider grant recommendations. We are particularly interested in working with organizations that have a racial…

Deadlines

Ongoing

Limits on who can apply

In order to be eligible for a grant from the Kapor Foundation, an organization must have IRC 501(c)(3) status and be classified as not a private foundation" under Section 509(a), or have a similarly qualified fiscal sponsor. The foundation never grants to individuals for personal projects, and rarely funds: (1) organizations that are not qualified charities with IRC 501(c)(3) status or that do not have a similarly qualified fiscal sponsor; supporting organizations generally do not qualify for…

Grants paid in 2024

$7.1 million, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.