The Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is a large, endowment-funded private foundation that makes strategic, often multi-year and multi-million-dollar investments to strengthen arts & culture, education, health & sports, and social welfare worldwide, with particularly deep engagement in Greece. SNF funds both transformational infrastructure (e.g., hospital and cultural center projects) and programmatic capacity building, favoring long-term partnerships with public institutions, large nonprofits, and initiatives that expand access to quality services.
Selective, strategic grantmaking with very large multi-year commitments and infrastructure grants alongside variable-size program and capacity-building awards; many initiative-driven, partner-led grants and limited acceptance of unsolicited proposals.
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SNF primarily awards funds through defined initiatives and selective partnerships rather than open calls — check initiative pages (e.g., Global Health Initiative, Recharging the Youth, CAMHI) and the SNF website for partnership opportunities; unsolicited proposals are generally not accepted for major initiatives, so pursue introductions through existing partners or local public institutions and prepare proposals for large, multi-year, infrastructure- or capacity-focused projects.
Current and upcoming funding from Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Projects seeking to engage the public in Greece are eligible according to the announcement; the initiative opens application rounds for projects in Greece.
Deadline: A new application cycle opened in 2021; no deadline details provided in the scraped content.
Who can apply: Nonprofit organizations may submit grant requests through the official SNF Grant Portal. SNF notes it does not make grants directly to individuals and will not evaluate a new request from the same organization until one year after the previous submission.
Deadline: Rolling submissions are accepted, but SNF cannot evaluate a new grant request from the same organization until one year after the previous application.
Who can apply: Organizations and institutions working to improve health care access and outcomes may be supported, but SNF indicates it is currently much more selective in reviewing applications under GHI.
Deadline: Rolling/selective review; no fixed deadline stated.
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