Roblee Foundation Grant

The Roblee Foundation Grant supports initiatives that promote equity in race, ethnicity, and gender. It prioritizes funding for proposals that empower marginalized communities through women's issues, youth opportunities, and early childhood education. Grants are available for projects in the St. Louis area and Miami-Dade, FL. Applicants must consult with foundation staff before submission. The foundation focuses on early, catalytic, and movement-building approaches to create lasting change and improve lives.

First time applicants to the foundation are required to call foundation staff to explore your project’s funding potential.
Funding Priorities
The Roblee Foundation is committed to promoting equity in areas of race/ethnicity and gender, with a preference for early, catalytic, upstream, or movement-building approaches.
Focus Areas
We accept funding requests in race, ethnicity, and gender equity. Within our emphasis on equity (race, ethnicity, and gender), we prefer to fund in the following areas:

• Women’s Issues and Economic Empowerment
• Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities

Strategies that simplify and streamline women’s access to support servicesInitiatives to coordinate duplicative service delivery among domestic violence programsProtecting a women’s right to chooseTraining, education and coaching to accelerate economic empowerment, including women who have been recently incarceratedTwo-generational approaches that support parents and their young children
Proposals focused on youth ages (9-21) are preferred
Youth mentoring programsYouth engagement initiatives that organize and empower youth of color at the grassroots levelAlternatives to juvenile detention and strategies to reduce incarcerationSupport for racial justice and equitable policingAnti-bias/anti-racism training for middle and high school teachers in racially diverse schoolsAdvocacy efforts that increase public funding for children in foster care and youth in under-resourced areas
Early Childhood Education (0-8)
Proposals focused on under-resourced and marginalized communities
Collaborative initiatives to expand access to high quality early childhood educationAdvocacy efforts to increase support for child care subsidies, medicaid, early childhood education, early childhood home visiting, and public schoolsAnti-bias/Anti-racism training for early childhood teachers, caregivers, and parentsTwo-generational approaches that support parents and their young childrenEvidence-based early childhood home visitation programs serving vulnerable families.
Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Eligibility

Geographic FocusThe Roblee Foundation accepts applications for grants providing services in the St. Louis area (City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, MO or St. Claire County, IL) and in Miami-Dade, FL. However, grants may be made in other geographic areas of special interest to the Board.

Ineligibility

We do not accept unsolicited requests forAfter school or summer camp programs for childrenCharter or private schoolsChild care center operating expenses or slotsClimate change and environmental issuesConsumable goodsEquipment or facility renovationsHealth or medical careProselytismResidential treatment programsTemporary or transitional housingThe Arts