Where we work.

Our work is anchored in three areas. We make grants where the people are capable, the partners committed, and the work likely to compound. We hold a small portfolio on purpose: focus is how a small institution earns its keep.

Combating hate

A pluralist society is not self-sustaining; it is built and rebuilt by institutions that bring people across lines of difference into common purpose. We support work that builds unity and uplifts communities historically denied access to education — and that confronts the dehumanizing logic of hate at its root rather than only its symptoms.

What we fund

Education and opportunity at the neighborhood scale, where trust is built in person and over years: schools, direct-service organizations, and programs that put resources into communities rather than commentary about them. We favor partners with a long local record and deep roots in the communities they serve.

How we work

Multi-year, general-operating-leaning support where we can give it; relationships measured in years, not grant cycles; and a deliberate preference for the unglamorous, durable work that rarely attracts attention.

Selected partners

Empowering future leaders

The leaders who will matter most in twenty years are shaped today — by the education they receive, the institutions that inform their judgment, and the people willing to invest in them early. Talent is distributed evenly; opportunity is not. A small institution can close part of that gap by backing the people and organizations that develop sound thinking and capable leadership.

What we fund

Education, leadership development, and the institutions that sharpen public judgment — from programs that give capable people instruction and responsibility, to research bodies whose work informs the decisions leaders have to make. We are especially interested in partners who reach people and questions that conventional pipelines miss.

How we work

We back people and programs over the long run; we look for partners who measure their results in the trajectories of the individuals they serve; and we are willing to fund the patient, person-by-person work that does not scale neatly but compounds.

Selected partners

Energy literacy and supporting science

Science is one continuous endeavor — from understanding the physical systems that power our world to the research and medicine that heal the human one. We support both ends of that arc: the literacy that helps people reason clearly about science and energy, and the institutions that turn discovery into care for those who need it most.

What we fund

One commitment to science, expressed at both ends of its reach — the public understanding that lets a society choose well, and the discovery and care that change lives one person at a time. We fund the classroom and the public conversation as readily as the laboratory and the bedside.

Energy & scientific literacy

Efforts that raise the quality of public understanding — above all around energy: how it is made, what it costs, and the choices it forces — so that citizens and decision-makers can reason about it clearly.

Discovery & care

The same scientific conviction, made tangible: research that expands what medicine can do, and the hospitals and clinicians who carry it to children and families in their hardest hours.

How we work

Multi-year and durable where we can; concentrated on institutions and programs where our support can genuinely matter; and patient enough to let understanding, like research, compound.

Selected partners

Few partners, multi-year support, and the patience to let work compound.

If your work aligns with one of these areas, we'd like to hear from you.

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