Grant Information
SFFEA’s Approach
The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts (“SFFEA”) makes grants to organizations in support of programs that serve a full range of ages. Grants are directed at new initiatives, program support and expansion, and capacity building. SFFEA aims to support ideas that might be difficult to fund otherwise and seeks to leverage its grant making by focusing on opportunities that help organizations increase the populations they serve, broaden their effectiveness and impact, and improve financial sustainability. SFFEA does not generally make grants to endowments or for general operating support.
Additionally, in 2021, SFFEA launched a quick grants initiative to increase funding for the foundation’s mission to support learning, enrichment, and inspiration for economically underserved children and adults. This program makes grants of up to $10,000 to organizations for general operating, program, and scholarship support, with an effort to support smaller, grass roots organizations. These quick grants are national in scope with an emphasis on Connecticut and other states with connections to SFFEA.
SFFEA considers funding opportunities on an invitation-only basis and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
2024 Grants
Grant Total $4,107,583
Quicks Grants are Denoted with *
READy for the Grade programs are Denoted with **
Activities Beyond the Classroom (OH)*
Adam J. Lewis Academy (CT)*
All Our Kin (CT)*
Aloha Foundation (VT)*
American Dance Festival (NC)*
American Museum of Natural History (NY)
American Songbook Association (NY)*
Artists Collective (CT)*
Arts for Learning Connecticut (CT)
Arts Ignite (NY)*
Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center (NY)*
Bloomingdale School of Music (NY)*
Boundless Literacy (CT)*
Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders (CT)*
Bridgeport Public Education Fund (CT)*
Building One Community (CT)
Cardinal Shehan Center (CT)*
Carver Foundation of Norwalk (CT)*
Charter Oak Cultural Center (CT)*
Children of Promise, NYC (NY)
Children’s Literacy Foundation (VT)*
Children’s Village (NY)
CitySeed (CT)*
Clemente Course in the Humanities (National)*
Community College of VT (VT)*
Concrete Safaris (NY)*
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret (CT)*
Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT) (CT)*
Connecticut Children’s Museum (CT)*
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CT)
Connecticut Democracy Center (CT)*
Connecticut Humanities Council (CT)
Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI) (CT)*
Connecticut Public Broadcasting (CT)
Connecticut Science Center (CT)
Connecticut Storytelling Center (CT)
Connecting Through Literacy: Incarcerated Parents, Their Children and Caregivers (CLICC) (CT)*
Connect-Us (CT)*
Crayons to Computers (OH)*
Danbury Grassroots Academy (CT)*
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center (CT)*
Discovering Amistad (CT)*
Domus Kids (CT)*
DREAM Program (VT/NH)*
Elena’s Light (CT)*
Elm Shakespeare Company (CT)*
Everybody Wins! Vermont (VT)*
Felix Organization – Adoptees for Children (NY)*
Fresh Air Fund (NY)*
Frost Valley YMCA (NY/NJ)*
Future 5 (CT)*
Girl Scouts of Connecticut (CT)*
Goodspeed Opera House (CT)
Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras (CT)*
Harlem Academy (NY)*
Hartford Promise (CT)
Hartford Stage Company (CT)
Higher Edge (CT)*
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs (CT)*
Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut (CT)*
Horizons at CT State Norwalk (CT)
Horizons at Ethel Walker School (CT)*
Horizons at Norwalk Community College (CT)*
Horizons at The Foote School (CT)
Horizons Bridgeport (CT)
Horizons National Student Enrichment Program (CT)
Horizons New York City (NY)
Horizons at Rectory (CT)
Housatonic Community College Foundation (CT)*
Inner City Youth Opportunities (OH)*
Intempo Organizations (CT)*
Inter District Committee – Project Oceanology (CT)*
Jumpstart for Young Children (CT)
Kids Empowered by Your Support (KEYS) (CT)*
Klein Memorial Auditorium (CT)
Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP) (CT)
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (ECHO) (VT)*
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (NY)*
Lutz Children’s Museum (CT)
Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk (CT)*
Mark Twain House and Museum (CT)*
Mattatuck Museum (CT)*
McGivney Community Center (CT)*
Mill River Park Collaborative (CT)
Montshire Museum of Science (VT)*
Music Will (CT/VT)
Mystic Aquarium (CT)
Mystic Seaport Museum (CT)
National Museum of Mathematics (NY)
New Canaan Chamber Music (CT)*
New England Air Museum (CT)
New England Science & Sailing (CT)
New Haven Free Public Library – Stetson Branch (CT)**
New Haven Reads Community Book Bank (CT)*
New Haven Symphony Orchestra (CT)*
New Victory Theater (NY)*
New York City Center (NY)*
Niantic Childrens Museum (CT)*
Northern Stage (VT)*
Norwalk/Stamford Grassroots Tennis & Education (CT)*
Old Sturbridge Village (CT)
Oliver Scholars Program (NY)
Open Doors (CT)*
Opening Act (NY)
Our Piece of The Pie (CT)*
Person to Person (CT)*
Pomfret School (CT)
Prep for Prep (NY)*
Project Music (CT)*
Providence Children’s Museum (RI)*
Quinebaug Valley Community College Foundation (CT)
Reach Out and Read (CT)
REACH Prep (CT)*
Read to Grow (CT)
Real Art Ways (CT)*
Report for America (National)
Rhode Island Computer Museum (CT/RI)*
Roundabout Theatre (NY)*
Scope USA (NY)*
Scripps Howard Fund (KY)
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (CA)*
Society for Science & the Public (DC)
Solar Youth (CT)*
SoundWaters (CT)
Stepping Stones Museum for Children (CT)*
Student Sponsor Partnership (NY)*
Talladega College (AL)
Teach for America Connecticut (CT)
TEAK Fellowship (NY)
TEEG (CT)
The Children’s Museum (CT)*
The Joyce Theater (NY)*
The Literary Classics of the US (Library of America) (National)*
The New York Historical (NY)
Town of Vernon (Rockville Public Library) (CT)**
Upper Valley Haven (VT/NH)*
Vermont Afterschool (VT)*
Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VT)*
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center (NY)*
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (CT)
Windham County 4-H Foundation (CT)*
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Updated March 2025