Boone Family Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Boone Family Foundation supports women and girls, education and the environment in Texas.
IP TAKE: This foundation is all about equity and social justice; however, it has very specific ideas to pursue and does not accept unsolicited funding requests.
PROFILE: Established in 2007, the Boone Family Foundation (BFF) is a family foundation based in Dallas, Texas. This is the foundation of Garrett and Cecilia Boone and their three adult children. Cecilia Boone began fighting for gender equity while working for IBM and has been thee chair of many local organizations, including the Dallas Women’s Foundation, Planned Parenthood of North Texas and Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas. Garrett Boone founded The Container Store and has a longstanding commitment to creating a more sustainable environment. The foundation aims to "seek lasting, long-term systems change by supporting organizations and causes that want to be change agents.” It funds local efforts for women and girls, education and the environment.
Grants for Women and Girls, Education, and Environment
The Boone Family Foundation is a social justice grantmaker and an innovator in the field of philanthropy that looks to make communities more fair places for all people. BFF seeds new organizations and initiatives that fill gaps related to its interest areas. It provides program and project support, general operating support, capital support, endowment funds and multi-year gifts. Grants to advance equity for women and girls build potential among low-income populations and focus on gender and economic equity, reproductive health and giving women and girls a voice. To improve educational outcomes for children in public schools, BFF focuses on early education, human capital, literacy, school choice, life skills, socio-emotional learning and character building. To promote environmental stewardship, BFF awards grants to improve air and water quality and to enhance green spaces. In addition to grantmaking, BFF has initiatives to help build the capacity of the local nonprofit community and further its social justice mission.
Past local grantees include Heart House, the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and Reading Partners of North Dallas.
Important Grant Details
Grants range between about $1,000 and $300,000. BFF has granted around $4 million per year recently. Grantmaking focuses on the state of Texas and especially where BFF directors have interests.
This foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits. BFF invites selected nonprofits to apply for grants and provides a grant application via online grants system that is based on the North Texas common grant questions. Direct general questions to the staff at info@theboonefamilyfoundation.org or 214-368-0828.
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