Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital
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About Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital
The Schooner Foundation makes a small number of large, strategic grants focused on civic power, environmental conservation, and strengthening health and social‑work leadership in the Boston region and nationally. Their giving mixes national civil‑rights organizing (notably repeat support for the NAACP) with major gifts to conservation and to academic/medical institutions that build applied social‑health capacity. Grants appear targeted to programmatic initiatives and endowed leadership positions rather than general operating micropayments.
Focus Areas
Civil rights, voter and community power-building (e.g., NAACP Building Community Voices Fund)Land conservation and climate resilience via major environmental nonprofits (e.g., The Nature Conservancy)University-based social work and health innovation in Boston (e.g., BU Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health)Global health and social medicine leadership (e.g., endowed chair at Brigham and Women's Hospital)Large gifts to Boston‑area institutions with national impact
Who They Fund
refugees and forcibly displaced populations
About Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital
The Schooner Foundation c/o Schooner Capital LLC has made a pattern of large, targeted grants for civic power, global health equity, and environmental work, with 2025 awards ranging from a $2,000,000 grant to the NAACP’s Building Community Voices Fund to a $1,350,000 grant to The Nature Conservancy for Leveraging our Lands. The same year, the foundation backed Boston University’s Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health with $1,000,000 and Brigham and Women’s Hospital with $625,000 for the Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Distinguished Chair. That mix shows a funder that favors major program commitments, endowed leadership, and institution-based initiatives rather than a wide spread of small awards. Its recent grants also link national organizing to applied research and service infrastructure, including support for the NAACP, Boston University, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The foundation’s active grantmaking program is invitation-only and covers human rights and social justice, global health equity, education and economic empowerment, and environment.
What Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital Funds
In democratic participation and community power-building, the foundation gave $500,000 to State Leadership Project for the Strategic Victory Fund and $258,000 to the NAACP for Focused Support. For conservation, it awarded $1,350,000 to The Nature Conservancy for Leveraging our Lands and $350,000 to Turquoise Mountain Foundation for Focused Support. In health systems and training, the foundation provided $500,000 to Trustees of Boston University for the Center for Forced Displacement and $250,000 to Massachusetts General Hospital for the Rural Health Fellowship Program. It also supported humanitarian health work with $250,000 to Syrian American Medical Society Foundation for Focused Support and $250,000 to Seed Global Health Inc for Global Health Equity - Emergency Medical Training, Uganda.
How Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital Gives
Typical grants cluster in the mid-five-figure to low-six-figure range: p25 is $10,000, median is $50,000, and p75 is $100,000. The recent record shows a small number of much larger awards layered on top of that core distribution, including seven-figure commitments. Recipients appear across multiple years, with Boston University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners in Health, UCSF Foundation, Vet Voice Foundation Inc, and the NAACP all showing up in both 2023 and 2025. The foundation is a regular funder, and the active program lists invitation-only grantmaking. It also funds individuals, but the recent grants provided here are organizational awards.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$19.4M
Total Assets
$253.7M
Total Revenue
$18.7M
Total Expenses
$27.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National29 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Schooner Foundation C/O Schooner Capital.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 362 | $37.4M | 99.5% |
| 2 | Uganda |
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