Frost Foundation Grant

The Frost Foundation, established in 1959, aims to support educational, charitable, and religious initiatives. It prioritizes grant-making for organizations that foster creativity and self-reliance, particularly in New Mexico and Louisiana. The Foundation encourages innovative programs and collaborations that address urgent community needs. Eligible applicants must possess a 501(c)(3) status, ensuring they can effectively utilize funds to create positive change beyond traditional boundaries, while promoting alliances to maximize impact.

Background
The Frost Foundation was created on March 19, 1959 to be operated exclusively for educational, charitable and religious purposes.
The Frost Foundation was named in honor of Edwin Ambrose Frost and Virginia Chapelle Frost. Its first Board of Directors was composed of Mrs. Mary Frost Willis, Mrs. Elizabeth Frost Whited, Frank T. Whited, Mrs. Mary Virginia Loftus, Edwin Frost Whited and W. Scott Wilkinson.
The Foundation possesses all powers, rights, privileges, capacities, and immunities which nonprofit corporations are authorized to possess under the Constitution and Laws of Louisiana, and particularly under Title 12, Section 101 et seq., Louisiana Revised Statutes, and has been authorized to operate in New Mexico as a foreign corporation with the name of The Frost Foundation, Ltd.
Guidelines
In order to best utilize its available resources, the Foundation has established the
following general guidelines for grant-making activity:
The Foundation wishes to encourage self-reliance, creativity and ingenuity on the part of prospective recipients. Its efforts are directed primarily to support exemplary organizations and programs which can generate positive change beyond traditional boundaries, to encourage creativity which recognizes emerging needs, and to assist innovation which addresses current urgent problems.
Within these parameters, it provides initial impetus to exemplary organizations
and programs, to operating funds, to pioneering organizations and programs which other institutions might similarly use, and to programs which have potential for wider service or educational exposure than an individual community.
The Foundation encourages collaborations, mergers and the formation of alliances among agencies within the community to reduce duplication of effort and to promote a maximum effective use of funds. The Foundation also considers requests for operating.

Eligibility

The Foundation is prepared to review applications of human service needs, environmental and education programs in New Mexico and Louisiana from organizations which have an IRS 501(c)(3) determination.