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 focus on smaller organizations where this level of funding can be impactful/meaningful.
SFFEA considers funding opportunities on an invitation-only basis and does not accept unsolicited proposals.
2025 Grants
Grant Total $3,383,789
American Museum of Natural History
Arts for Learning Connecticut
Building One Community
Children of Promise NYC
Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF)
Connecticut Audubon Society
Connecticut Humanities Council
Connecticut Public Broadcasting
Connecticut Science Center
Connecticut Storytelling Center
Goodspeed Opera House
Hartford Promise
Hartford Stage Company
Horizons at CT State Norwalk
Horizons at Sacred Heart University
Horizons at The Foote School
Horizons at The Rectory School
Horizons National Student Enrichment Program
Horizons New York City
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Klein Memorial Auditorium
Leadership Education and Athletics Partnership (LEAP)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Lutz Children’s Museum
Mill River Park Collaborative
Montshire Museum of Science
Music Will
Mystic Aquarium
Mystic Seaport Museum
National Dance Institute
National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)
New England Air Museum
New England Science & Sailing
Northeast Connecticut Education Foundation
Norwalk Community College Foundation
Old Sturbridge Village
Oliver Scholars Program
Opening Act
Pomfret School
Read To Grow
Report for America
Scripps Howard Fund
SoundWaters
Teach for America Connecticut
The Children’s Village
The New York Historical
TEAK Fellowship
TEEG
Vermont Humanities
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation
Quick Grants
100 Black Men of Stamford
Activities Beyond The Classroom
Adam J Lewis Academy
All Our Kin
Aloha Foundation
American Dance Festival
American Precision Museum
American Songbook Association
Artists Collective
Arts Ignite
Beardsley Zoo
Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center
Bloomingdale School of Music
Blossom Hill Foundation
Boundless Literacy
Boys and Girls Club of Stamford
Bridgeport Caribe Youth League
Bridgeport Public Education Fund
Cardinal Shehan Center
Carver Foundation of Norwalk
Charter Oak Cultural Center
Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF)
CitySeed
Clemente Course in the Humanities
Connecting Through Literacy: Incarcerated Parents, Their Children and Caregivers (CLICC)
Community College of Vermont
Concrete Safaris
Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret
Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT)
Connecticut Children’s Museum
Connecticut Democracy Center
Connecticut Humanities Council
Connect-Us
Crayons to Computers
Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI)
Danbury Grassroots Academy
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
Domus Kids
Elementz
Elena’s Light
Elm Shakespeare Company
Everybody Wins! Vermont
Family and Children’s Agency
Felix Organization-Adoptees for Children
Fresh Air Fund
Frost Valley YMCA
Future 5
Girl Scouts of Connecticut
Governor’s Institutes of Vermont
Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras
Harlem Academy
Hartford Stage Company
Higher Edge
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs
Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut
Horizons at Ethel Walker School
Housatonic Community College Foundation
HS(2) Squared Network
Inner City Youth Opportunities
Intempo Organizations, Inc.
Inter District Committee for Project Oceanology
Kids Empowered by Your Support (KEYS)
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (ECHO)
Lebanon Opera House Improvement Corporation
Listen Center
Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Mark Twain House and Museum
Mattatuck Historical Society
McGivney Community Center
Montshire Museum of Science
Music Will
Nathan Hale Homestead
New Canaan Chamber Music
New England Science & Sailing Foundation
New Haven Reads
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
New York City Center
Niantic Children’s Museum
Northern Stage Company
Norwalk Art Space
Norwalk Symphony Society
Norwalk/Stamford Grassroots Tennis & Education
Open Doors
Our Piece of The Pie
Pentangle Arts Council
Person to Person
Prep for Prep
Project Music
Providence Children’s Museum
Reach Out And Read
REACH Prep
Real Art Ways
Rhode Island Computer Museum
Roundabout Theatre Company
Scholarship Plus
SCOPE USA
Scripps Institute of Oceanography – Birch Aquarium
Shepherds Mentors
Solar Youth
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
Stamford Peace Youth Foundation
Stamford Public Education Foundation
Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Student Sponsor Partnership
The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts
The Children’s Museum
The DREAM Program
The Joyce Theater
The Literary Classics of the US (Library of America)
The New 42nd Street
The Vivian Beaumont Theater
Upper Valley Haven
Upper Valley Music Center
Vermont Afterschool
Vermont Humanities
Waterbury Promise
Waterside School
Wildlife Conservation Society
Windham County 4-H Foundation
READy for the Grade Program
New Haven Free Public Library – Fair Haven Branch
New Haven Free Public Library – Stetson Branch
New Haven Free Public Library – Wilson Branch
Rockville Public Library
Willimantic Public Library
Updated April 2026