Grants

The Sills Family Foundation typically makes grants between $10,000 and $25,000.

Grants Made in 2023

Families Impacted by Incarceration $190,000

Bronx Defenders

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
Bronx, NY

Re-entry support

Drive Change

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
Brooklyn , NY

General Operating Support

Echoes of Incarceration

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

Gneral Operating Support

Hour children

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
LIC, NY

General Operating Support

Housing Plus

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Providence house

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
Brooklyn , NY

Womens Justice Program

The Osborne Association

Amount
$30,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Womens prison Association

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Families Impacted by Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Program Total: $190,000

Programs Inside Prison $100,000

Bard Prison Initiative

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Programs Inside Prison
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Volunteers for Legal Services

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Programs Inside Prison
Location
New York, NY

VOLS immigration Project

Program Total: $100,000

Preventing Incarceration $220,000

Avenues for Justice

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Common Justice

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Envision Freedom Fund

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
Brooklyn , NY

General Operating Support

Exalt Youth

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
Brooklyn , NY

General Operating Support

Liberty Fund

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

ROCA

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
Chelsea, MA

Intervention for Young Parents

Strategies for Youth

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
Cambridge, MA

Monitoring Police Reform Efforts in MA

Youth Represent

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Preventing Incarceration
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Program Total: $220,000

Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy $90,000

Just Leadership USA

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Program Total: $90,000

Health and Education $80,000

Bronxworks

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Health and Education
Location
Bronx, NY

HIPPPY

Community Solutions

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Health and Education
Location
Brooklyn , NY

United for Brownsville

Power of Two

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Health and Education
Location
Brooklyn , NY

General Operating Support

The Reading Team

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Health and Education
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Program Total: $80,000

Support For Immigrant Families $185,000

Make The Road New York

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Support For Immigrant Families
Location
Brooklyn, NY

New York Immigration Rapid Response and Deportation Defense

Make The Road New York

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Support For Immigrant Families
Location
Brooklyn, NY

Youth Power project

Project ANAR

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Support For Immigrant Families
Location
Oakland, CA

General Operating Support

Safe Passage Project

Amount
$25,000
Grants Made to
Support For Immigrant Families
Location
New York, NY

General Operating Support

Solidarity Engineering

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Support For Immigrant Families
Location
Reynosa, TX

General Operating Support

Program Total: $185,000

Environmental Justice and Climate Change $190,000

Carbon Cycle Institute

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
Petaluma, CA

General Operating Support

Climate Collaborative

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
Bellingham, WA

General Operating Support

Coming Clean

Amount
$25,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
Brattleboro, VT

Networks in Action

Ecdysis Foundation

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
St Estelline, SD

1000 farms initiative

Greenwave

Amount
$30,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
New Haven, CT

General Operating Support

GRID Alternatives

Amount
$25,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
Los Angeles, CA

Renewable Energy Workforce devt

Women’s Earth Alliance

Amount
$25,000
Grants Made to
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
Location
Berkeley, CA

US Grassroots Accelerator

Program Total: $190,000

Capacity Building Grants $15,000

Mercury Policy project

Amount
$15,000
Grants Made to
Capacity Building Grants
Location
Montpellier, VT

Leadership Transition Consultant

Program Total: $15,000

Arts and Culture $159,000

ArtsWestchester

Amount
$26,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
White Plains, NY

Artist residencies for low income seniors plus general operating support

Brooklyn Ballet

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
Brooklyn , NY

support for in-school dance programming

Community Word Project

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
NYC, NY

Collaborative Arts Residencies

Manhattan Theater Club

Amount
$18,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
NYC, NY

Writers on the Edge educational program

Polin museum

Amount
$25,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
NYC, NY

General Operating Support

Sing Sing Prison museum

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
Ossining, NY

General Operating Support

Songcatchers

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
Arts and Culture
Location
Larchmont , NY

General Operating Support

Program Total: $159,000

At Risk Youth $106,000

ASE Education Foundation

Amount
$15,000
Grants Made to
At Risk Youth
Location
Leesburg, VA

Scholarship for post secondary automtive repair training

LIFE Camp

Amount
$15,000
Grants Made to
At Risk Youth
Location
Brooklyn , NY

Violence Intervention and Prevention/Public Safety

MISSSEY Inc

Amount
$18,000
Grants Made to
At Risk Youth
Location
Oakland, CA

General Operating Support

Youth ALIVE

Amount
$20,000
Grants Made to
At Risk Youth
Location
Oakland, CA

General Operating Support

Program Total: $106,000

Third Generation Grants $50,000

Black and Pink National

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Third Generation Grants
Grants Made in
2023
Location
Omaha, NE

general operating support

Communities Resist

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Third Generation Grants
Location
Brooklyn, NY

general operating support

Critical Resistance

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Third Generation Grants
Location
Oakland, CA

general operating support

UPROSE

Amount
$10,000
Grants Made to
Third Generation Grants
Location
Brooklyn, NY

general operating support

Program Total: $50,000

Annual Total: $1,385,000