Recent Grantees
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation's primary funding areas are the Arts, Arts Education, and Student Academic Success. We support nonprofit organizations in Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake Counties. In 2024, the foundation launched a new open-submission grantmaking approach with a goal to help nonprofits build their organizational capacity and effectiveness in ways that lead to long-term sustainability. To support organization's ability to build and strengthen capacity, we make operating support grants that provide flexible funding nonprofits can use as needed to achieve their missions.
In addition to grants awarded through our open-submission processes, MDBF provides funding that supports our primary funding interests and the nonprofit sector more broadly. We may also respond to unanticipated situations, such as pandemics or natural disasters. This listing provides information about the foundation's active grants with nonprofit organizations in the Triangle.
Multiyear Grants
One-Year Grants
Other Grants
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
MDBF views our arts grantmaking through an equity lens. We are particularly interested in supporting organizations led by people of color, that incorporate arts accessibility into their work, and whose boards and staff reflect the diversity of the Triangle. By accessibility, we mean opportunities to encounter, appreciate, and participate in the arts. We support organizations that embrace and advance DEI practices and work towards equitable access and engagement in the arts.
Grant Guidelines
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