About Ddora Foundation
The Ddora Foundation concentrates on sustaining traditional crafts and hands-on vocational training, funding institutions that teach stone carving, weaving, boatbuilding and related heritage trades. They support both educational pipelines (scholarships, internships) and museum/collection‑based conservation projects, favoring organizations that combine skills training with preservation of material culture. Grants are often program‑specific and repeated to a handful of specialized training institutions and living‑history organizations.
Focus Areas
Stone carving and historic masonry apprenticeship programsHands-on vocational trade schools and student scholarships (bench carpentry, masonry, trades)Historic textiles conservation and garment replication for museum collectionsWooden boatbuilding apprenticeships and maritime craft trainingApplied maker technology for assistive devices (3D‑printed prosthetics)
Who They Fund
students (scholarship recipients)apprentices and internsfellows/costume department trainees
About Ddora Foundation
The Ddora Foundation’s recent giving centers on preserving and teaching traditional craft skills through training pipelines and conservation projects. Its largest recent grants go to Pellettieri Stone Carvers' Academy for teaching assistantships and apprenticeships, and to North Bennet Street School for student scholarships across multiple years, showing a steady emphasis on hands-on education rather than one-time cultural sponsorships. The foundation also backs institutions where craft practice is embedded in formal instruction, such as timber, textiles, masonry, and museum-linked training. Across the recent grant list, the pattern is consistent: support for people learning a trade, not just organizations maintaining collections. Grants have funded internships, fellowships, student aid, and program-specific work tied to applied arts and heritage trades. Old Sturbridge Village received funding for costume department work and historical garment replication, while fabric and weaving programs, stone carving academies, and boatbuilding schools appear repeatedly in the record. That mix points to a funder interested in preserving techniques by keeping them in active use, in classrooms, workshops, and apprenticeship settings.
What Ddora Foundation Funds
In stone carving and masonry, The Ddora Foundation funded Pellettieri Stone Carvers' Academy for teaching assistantships in 2025 and apprentices in 2024, and Williamson College of the Trades for its lime and mortar program in 2024. Those grants show direct support for training in building conservation and related trade skills. For textiles and garment work, the foundation gave Fabric of Life Inc support in multiple years for the VAV immersion weaving program, and it backed Old Sturbridge Village for clothing and textiles work tied to replicating a historical garment held in its collections. That places museum-based conservation alongside skill transmission. The foundation also supports maritime and maker training. Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding received internships in both 2024 and 2025, and Rochester E-nable Limited received support for its 3D printing program in 2023.
How Ddora Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered: p25 is $20,000, median is $20,000, and p75 is $24,510. The recent record also includes a few larger awards at $30,000 and one smaller grant at $1,843. The same organizations appear across multiple years, including North Bennet Street School, Fabric of Life Inc, Pellettieri Stone Carvers' Academy, Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Old Sturbridge Village, and Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. That repeat pattern suggests ongoing program-level support rather than isolated awards. The foundation funds individuals indirectly through scholarships, internships, fellowships, and apprenticeships rather than through a public individual application model.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$105K
Total Assets
$626K
Total Revenue
$60K
Total Expenses
$122K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $25K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional5 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in MA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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