International Foundation Grant

International Foundation Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The International Foundation
Amount: Up to US $100,000
Last Updated: August 13, 2025

Summary

The International Foundation Grant is aimed at U.S.-based non-profit organizations working in developing countries to enhance health, education, and income levels for impoverished communities. While currently not accepting new applications, the foundation reviews proposals from previously invited organizations. The focus lies on holistic, community-driven projects in sectors such as agriculture, education, environment, and health. Partnerships with local entities are encouraged to ensure sustainable and impactful outcomes.

Overview

NOTE: ‍We are not accepting new submissions at this time. We are currently in the middle of our 2025 grant application cycle and are only reviewing proposals from organizations that were invited to apply. Please check back later for information on future funding opportunities. The International Foundation fund US-based non-profit organizations who partner with poor communities in the developing world to improve their health, education and incomes, while strengthening local capacity to sustain their benefits. Our strategy seeks change in the intermediate area between individuals and national organizations, where community members work together toward a shared vision. The International Foundation funds grants in three key areas—health, education and incomes. However, each of these areas represents a range of investment opportunities that, if integrated with other program areas, can lead to broader, more balanced and more sustainable results. The focus of our grant-making combines criteria on the nature of the program, the geographic location, and the level of poverty. Quantifiable Impact Focus Our grants support the specific types of programs, in specific geographic regions, that we believe address the most pressing needs in the world today. Program Focus We believe each of our priority program categories are linked by our overall goal to benefit an entire region. While grants are awarded to some organizations focused on one category, we look for partners who take a more holistic, community-based approach and are committed to delivering positive and sustained results. Agriculture: We support projects working toward agricultural sustainability in developing countries that suffer from the impact of population growth and environmental shifts, poor technology, and policy and management issues. These projects help smallholder farmers with crop management, storage, timely market information, mobile phone-based training services, savings and loan programs, and resource acquisition.Education: We support programs that extend the reach of national education systems to remote and undeserved areas. This includes remedial education, access to technology resources, teacher training, and extracurricular projects. We also support formal and informal education programs in information technology and vocational skills in both rural and city communities that prioritize women and girls.Environment: We support projects designed to address air and water pollution, environmental shifts, soil degradation, exploitation of natural resources, biodiversity loss, deforestation, desertification, and ocean acidification. Our grants focus on projects that ensure water quality and access, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and eliminating vector-borne diseases and exposure to toxic chemicals.Health: We support community primary health programs as well as maternal and child health care. We also support programs that provided general health education including hygiene, family planning, and birth control. Finally, we support programs that extend the reach of healthcare to remote regions and sectors of countries while also working to extend the reach of national health systems. Geographic FocusWe support US-based organizations serving vulnerable populations and communities in many parts of the developing world. We prioritize countries in which the need is great and the environment allows for successful outcomes.Latin America & The Caribbean or Africa or South & Southeast Asia

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. In addition to addressing one or more of our social impact priorities and delivering these services in our geographic areas of focus, eligible organizations must also be able to demonstrate compliance and alignment with all of the following attributes.HealthEnvironmentEducationAgricultureBe headquartered in the United States Be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit Be guided by a clear strategic plan with a proven theory of change and sound execution plans Deliver social impact results that are measurable and that have broad and lasting impact Possess a deep contextual knowledge of the communities and regions being served Set clear quantifiable goals for the grant-funded work and report on the progress Implement scalable, sustainable programs that are not dependant on long-term external support Actively collaborate with local partners (e.g., community-based, governmental, or non-governmental) to enhance program effectiveness and sustainabilityWe fund only one proposal from an organization during each calendar year.

Ineligibility

What we don’t fund:Grant requests exceeding $100,000 General solicitations or individuals Adoption or child sponsorship programs Conferences, lobbying, or advocacy efforts Projects that promote or proselytize religious beliefs School tuition or scholarships Disaster relief or emergency response efforts Media production (e.g., films, exhibits, books, or radio) Endowments or capital/building campaigns Biomedical research projects