The Hoover Family Foundation was founded in 1992 to assist non-profit tax-exempt organizations in the social service and education areas to improve the quality of life and foster self-sufficiency. The foundation focuses on funding organizations located in and providing services to the residents of the metropolitan areas where the foundation is located -- Portland, Oregon and Indianapolis, Indiana.

Our guidelines are specific -- we only fund organizations that provide services in the Portland metropolitan area. Our knowledge of these organizations and the issues facing them is important to us, so we must stand by these geographic restrictions.

 

Organizations located and providing services in the Hoover family areas: Portland, Oregon (map), and Indianapolis, Indiana

Programs that aid poverty level and minority groups

Programs that foster individual/community self-sufficiency

Effective providing of social services

Improvement of educational opportunities at all levels

 

We do not make grants:

To individuals

For sectarian or religious purposes

For capital campaigns

For event funding

For multi-year funding

For college scholarships

For lobbying or political purposes

For medical research

To private foundations or endowment funds

In support of regular operating budgets

To provide long-term funding o For post-event funding

 

Evaluation of proposals is based on:

Your ability to fulfill a community need for an under-served population,

Feasibility, and

Soundness of implementation plan and viability of subsequent long-term financing.

With limited resources and a large number of applications, the foundation is able to fund only a small portion of the many worthwhile requests submitted. Those constraints also limit the size of particular grants and the ability to fund on an annual basis.

 

Application Procedure

Application Deadlines

 

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