Hobbs Foundation Grant

The Hobbs Foundation Grant supports charitable organizations in Florida that focus on child development, family stabilization, and educational mentorship. By funding evidence-based interventions, the foundation aims to improve the lives of at-risk children facing instability and poverty. Eligible organizations must be 501(c)(3) non-profits committed to helping children impacted by the welfare system. This initiative seeks to foster long-term positive outcomes and empower communities through dedicated support and innovative strategies.

The Hobbs Foundation focuses its investments in programs that encourage a path to academic achievement, family stability, economic security, and personal fulfillment. We identify high-performing organizations that are expansion capable, initiate innovative strategies, and demonstrate a rigorous approach to outcome evaluation and organizational capacity. Hobbs Foundation grantees and community partners exhibit high-impact responsiveness directed by a comprehensive understanding of the instruments of poverty and instability for children and families in Florida.
Child Development and Family Stabilization
Increased support for organizations stewarding the consortium of child welfare services that provide early, critical interventions. These organizations have the capacity to address the specific psychological, emotional and developmental needs of children who have experienced childhood instability and insecurity. Support organizations that employ evidence-based therapeutic interventions in addressing the affects of stressors that can inhibit executive cognitive function, intellectual development, coping strategies, and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships.
Child Welfare and Foster Care
Support for organizations that implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions in addressing the specific needs of children who have experienced childhood psychological stress due to neglect, abuse, and abandonment. Programs seek to implement effective strategies in facilitating permanent placement with a personal commitment to children living in out-of-home care.
Intervention in the reduction of negative outcomes for children and youth with family instability, psychological stress, and lack of positive adult role models; poverty and dependency, unemployment, incarceration, unstable living situations, relationships and family life, economic immobility, homelessness and socio-emotional difficulties.
Education and Positive Mentorship
Increase support for organizations that demonstrate a critical understanding of their role in fostering long-term impact toward economic and social prosperity, addressing not only financial limitations to opportunity, but the socio-cultural mechanisms at the source of generational poverty and uncertainty for children and families. These organizations display personal commitment to the development of children and youth that reinforces positive attitudes about the importance of individual purpose and civic responsibility.

Eligibility

The Hobbs Foundation awards grants, in conjunction with mission guidelines, to charitable organizations serving children in the state of Florida. Applicants must be:A non-profit organization under 501(c)3 tax exemption statusServe at-risk children in communities located in the state of Florida as defined by their involvement in the child welfare system and/or those who are economically-disadvantagedAllocate funding to a specific project that directly benefits at-risk childrenEligible organizations have the opportunity to receive funding once per year.