Generous Acts
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- May 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Nonprofits
- Schools
- Municipalities
Geography
- Community-based organizations
Overview
Generous Acts Grant Program
Geographic Scope: Adirondack region (Adirondack Park, plus all of Clinton and Franklin counties and the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory)
Focus Areas:
- Equitable access to food, shelter, and healthy lives
- Viable educational pathways
- Economic vitality and civic engagement in Adirondack towns and villages
Eligibility:
- Nonprofits
- Schools
- Community-based organizations
- Municipalities
Program History:
- Since 2014, Generous Acts has awarded over $3 million in grants
- 2021: Nearly $590,000 awarded
- 2022: More than $903,000 awarded
- 2023: More than $957,000 awarded
- 2024: More than $794,000 awarded (with additional grants pending)
Contact Information:
- Phone: (518) 523-9904
- Email: [email protected]
- Address: PO Box 288, Lake Placid, NY 12946
How to Apply
Application Process
- Application Portal: Submit applications through Adirondack Community Foundation's Online Grants Manager at adkcommunityfoundation.org/granting/apply-grant
- Support Available:
- Instructional webinars are hosted to demonstrate how to use the application portal and answer questions
- Materials Required:
- Application through online portal
- Details available on website FAQ and eligibility criteria
- Contact for Questions:
- Phone: (518) 523-9904
- Email: [email protected]
What Adirondack Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 313
- Total given
- $8.23M
- Median grant
- $13K
- Range
- $5,020–$425K
- By dollars: New York 90%, Colorado 2%, Massachusetts 2%. Top recipient cities: Lake Placid, NY; Saranac Lake, NY; Plattsburgh, NY.
- 28% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 40% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (Alca) · Blue Mountain Lake, NY
For the alca building fund
$425K
Adirondack Experience · Blue Mountain Lake, NY
From nancy towards current capital campaign
$250K
Pendragon Theatre · Saranac Lake, NY
To settle pendragon's outstanding mortgage obligation to the cloudsplitter foundation
$225K
Cloudsplitter Foundation · Saranac Lake, NY
For support of the bridge loan fund per the attached grant agreement
$200K
Bruce L Crary Foundation Inc · Elizabethtown, NY
For support of the spring semester 2025 crary awards
$150K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Food security
- Housing
- Education
- Community development
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