PCLB Foundation Grant

Overview

_NOTE: We are an invite-only foundation. Our Program Team is in the field constantly, and they proactively seek partners who align with our funding interests. But we still might miss great organizations! We encourage organizations whose work aligns with our program goals to send us an emailor pick up the phone to introduce themselves to PCLB**.
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About PCLB

The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation (PCLB) was formed in 1999, by Dr. Peter Buck and his wife Carmen Lucia as a private family foundation to manage their family’s philanthropy in a thoughtful and strategic manner.

PCLB’s work is anchored by its mission statement, “giving motivated people the tools they need to help themselves.” These tools are about more than grants and include guidance, connections, convening, information, and other forms of assistance that the foundation and its grantees can provide. PCLB looks to support the highest‐quality organizations that show initiative, leadership, and innovation in solving issues that are meaningful to the family and the communities where family members live.

Program Areas

PCLB makes grants in five program areas:

* Education
* Outdoors
* Science
* Medicine
* Family Projects

Our choice of work in these program areas is guided by a desire for strategic and systemic change, by our founders’ intent, by our Board members’ interests, and by our staff’s expertise.

Within these program areas, we seek to support the highest-quality, most effective organizations that align with our broad mission of giving motivated people the tools they need to help themselves and that align with our more specific program area goals. Broadly, we provide the following types of financial support:

* General Operating: PCLB prefers to make general operating grants, to give our grantees the greatest ability to do the work they know is most important to meet our shared goals. Generally, we have general operating relationships with organizations that last for an extended period, recognizing that many of the issues on which we work take time to address.
* Restricted Support: PCLB also makes restricted grants, often to focus on areas of particular geographic interest or to support a specific department or area of work within an organization that has a broad scope.
* Big Bets: Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to take risks and try big things. In this spirit, PCLB makes a limited number of grants to fund especially large, time-limited projects that have the potential to change narratives around and trajectories of grantees’ work.
* Program-Related Investments: PCLB makes Program-Related Investments (PRIs) in the form of low-interest loans. PRIs are offered to current PCLB grantees to complete land conservation projects and to meet the facility needs of charter schools. Loans are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, within guidelines established by the Foundation.

Eligibility

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* We support organizations whose work aligns with our program goals and our 10-year strategic plan.
* PCLB’s funding is targeted primarily to Connecticut and New York, except otherwise noted.
* PCLB awards grants for both general operating support and restricted support, with a strong preference to support the general operations of the highest performing organizations involved with the issues of greatest interest to PCLB.
* Awards are made primarily to non-profit charitable organizations that are tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or to public governmental agencies. On a case-by-case basis, we will also consider making awards to non-501(c)(3) organizations.

Ineligibility

* PCLB does not make grants for ticketed events or to individuals.