One-Year Grantmaking Guidelines
2025 One-Year Grant Guidelines
Our Grantmaking Goals
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation is a family foundation with a goal to help people in the Triangle region live better lives and realize their potential through the Arts, Arts Education, and Student Academic Success. The foundation's grantmaking goal is to help nonprofits working in these areas to build their organizational capacity and effectiveness in ways that lead to long-term sustainability.
Information about our 2025 One-Year Grant cycle will be shared in Spring 2025.
Grantmaking Considerations
In our selection process for both grant cycles, we seek diversity and representation so that our grant portfolio mirrors the richness of our community. Some of the criteria we use to prioritize and weigh grant applications to reflect this aspiration include:
- Programming in all four counties in our geographic focus—Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake
- Organizations that are led by people of color and leaders with lived experience (on staff and/or board leadership)
- Organizations that advance the well-being of rural communities and that acknowledge their unique challenges and contributions
- Organizations at different life stages: developing and established organizations