Trusteed Foundations Funds Grant

Trusteed Foundations Funds Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Truist Foundation Inc
Last Updated: February 14, 2026

Summary

Trusteed Foundations Funds provide essential grant opportunities for nonprofit organizations in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, with specific review periods aligning with the foundation's operational calendar. The foundations seek to support initiatives in Leadership Development, Economic Mobility, Thriving Communities, and Education, ensuring that funds are allocated to organizations with a proven track record of community impact. This streamlined application process allows nonprofits to apply to multiple foundations through a single form.

Overview

NOTE: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and reviewed as follows: Requests received between August 1 and November 30 will be considered in January. Requests received between: December 1 and March 31 will be considered in May. Requests received between April 1 and July 31 will be considered in October. Trusteed Foundations In their concern for community wellbeing, the benefactors who established these foundations directed that available proceeds should be judiciously distributed to non-profit, tax-exempt organizations with demonstrable records of superior service in the fields of Leadership Development, Economic Mobility, Thriving Communities and Education. Truist Bank provides trustee services to private and family foundations, including the six foundations detailed on this website. As stewards to the Truist Trusteed Foundations, we are happy to provide information about their grant guidelines and the application process in the Atlanta area. Each proposal submitted is automatically considered for funding by the English, Marshall, Rich, Woolford, Elkin, and Greene-Sawtell foundations. Only one application form is needed to apply to all six foundations. Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund Harry L. English was the son of Capt. James Warren English, Mayor of Atlanta from 1882-1884. Capt. English gained prominence in Atlanta through the real estate business. Harry and his wife Florence built a house on West Paces Ferry Road across from the Governor's Mansion. The house still stands today. Harry died in 1937, and in 1964, The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund was established to honor Harry and Florence. Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust Mrs. Harriett McDaniel Marshall created this Trust in 1962 to honor her father, Sanders McDaniel, a Monroe, GA native and an Atlanta attorney. Mr. McDaniel was the son of former Governor Henry D. McDaniel (1883-1888), under whose administration the State Capitol Building in Atlanta was completed. Harriett married Rembert Marshall, one of her father's law partners. Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund Walter H. Rich was the second president of Rich's department store (1926-1947), succeeding his uncle, Morris Rich, who founded the company as M. Rich & Bros. in 1867. Morris Rich changed the name to Rich's when a new store was built on the corner of Broad and Alabama Streets in downtown Atlanta in 1924. Both Morris and Walter as well as Daniel Rich, Morris' brother and Walter's father, are buried in Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery. The Walter H. and Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund was established in 1959. This Memorial Fund was established to make gifts to institutions which are members of a community fund, nonprofit hospitals, or are an institution which places emphasis upon the education and training of individuals and scholarship funds. Thomas Guy Woolford Charitable Trust This Trust was created under the will of Thomas Guy Woolford, a member of the family who founded Retail Credit Company (1899) which ultimately became Equifax Inc. This Trust was established to make gifts to institutions that are organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational or scientific purposes. Because of the family's ties to the Atlanta area, the Distribution Committee will give priority to charitable, religious, educational or scientific organizations in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Nell Warren Elkin and William Simpson Elkin Foundation The Nell Warren Elkin and William Simpson Elkin Foundation was created as a memorial by Miss Margaret R. Warren, Miss Charlotte L. Warren and Mrs. Josephine Warren Asbury, sisters of Nell Warren Elkin. The following charitable institutions were suggested by the Foundation's founders as worthy and valuable organizations. However, the Foundation's trustee is not required to make grants to these organizations and will entertain proposals from other organizations. Robert Winship Cancer Clinic, Atlanta, GAA.G. Rhodes, Inc., Atlanta, GAGeorgia Heart Association, Inc., Atlanta, GABible Study Hour, Philadelphia, PAAmerican Bible Society, New York, NYEmory University, Atlanta, GA Greene-Sawtell Foundation The Greene-Sawtell Foundation was established by Mr. Forest Greene and Mrs. Alice Greene Sawtell, who served as the first Advisory Committee. Under the terms of the document which established the Foundation, the advisory committee was created to select the charitable organizations which the Foundation would support. Truist Bank, as Trustee, now determines which charitable, religious and educational organizations will receive support from the Foundation. The Trustee considers organizations which the Foundation has supported in the past, those in which Mrs. Sawtell had a personal interest, and those which are of a similar nature to the organizations in which Mrs. Sawtell had an interest. Charities Suggested in the Document Establishing the Foundation: Various Protestant Charities in GeorgiaYoung Harris CollegeLaGrange CollegeRabun Gap-Nacoochee SchoolReinhardt CollegeMethodist Children's Home, Decatur, GeorgiaHillside Cottages, Atlanta, GeorgiaThornwell Orphanage, Clinton, South CarolinaHenrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, Decatur, Georgia Charities Supported by Mrs. Sawtell during her lifetime: First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GeorgiaSt. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc.Atlanta Union MissionCenter for the Visually ImpairedSheltering Arms Day Care CenterThe Salvation Army

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Grants from the foundations are made by the Distribution Committee to non-profit metropolitan Atlanta organizations that are fiscally sound and serve important needs in the community.Community benefit and return on investment are primary considerations in distribution decisions.The Trustee will consider requests for capital improvements such as buildings, furniture and equipment, and alterations to existing structures.Applications also will be considered for special projects or "one-time" needs of a financial well-being or community nature and pilot programs, which do not commit the funds to recurring expenditures.The geographic focus of these foundations is metropolitan Atlanta, specifically the 29-County Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) encompassing Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Morgan, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton.Usually grants will be made only to organizations with records of successful operation, without a deficit for at least a year.

Ineligibility

These foundations do not accept unsolicited grant applications from outside metropolitan Atlanta unless an organization has been specifically named by the donor as an eligible recipient.These foundations will not consider requests for general operating support such as salaries, maintenance, and debt service, or requests by political organizations, churches or individuals.