Applying for a Grant

The Buck Foundation is not currently accepting new Letters of Inquiry.

The Buck Foundation is a family foundation with a commitment to peace, social justice and the prevention of climate catastrophe.

New Priority AreaClimate Action: The Buck Foundation supports organizations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toxic pollution, and supports work to create an equitable, sustainable economy.

The Buck Foundation prioritizes organizations where communities impacted by the problem design solutions to those problems.

The Buck Foundation awards grants only to 501(c)(3) organizations and non-governmental agencies. The Buck Foundation will not accept grant requests from individuals, for endowments, or for capital campaigns. 

The Buck Foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations from qualified organizations in Colorado

The Buck Foundation makes both General Operations Support grants and Program Specific grants. General Operating Support provides unrestricted funding to help support and maintain an organization as it pursues its mission. This type of grant is flexible and gives the grantee the ability to use the funds where they are most appropriate. If you are requesting a General Operating Support grant you will be required to describe how the funds to be utilized. For Program Specific grants you will be expected to describe what the grant will be used for along with a program budget.

What We Do Not Fund

  • Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, except to serve a historically disadvantaged group
  • Debt retirement
  • Activities, projects, or programs that will have been completed before funding becomes available (no retroactive funding)
  • Endowments, or other reserve funds
  • Capital campaigns
  • Membership or affiliation campaigns, dinners, or special events
  • Conferences, symposia, film and video production, and related travel
  • Grants that further political doctrine or religious activities
  • Grants to individuals
  • Scholarships or sponsorships
  • Grants to parochial or religious schools or private schools
  • Requests from individual schools or departments/programs of universities or colleges
  • Requests from foundations/organizations that raise money for individual schools that have not coordinated the request with their central school district/university administration or fundraising arm
  • Grants for re-granting purposes
  • Multi-year funding requests (Please note: the Buck Foundation, on rare occasions, provides grantees with multi-year grants. However, organizations cannot request such funding)