Grant Awards

The charitable grants made by the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation are the testimonials to the great work that we do. Our grantmaking has increased fivefold in the last seven years, through the competitive grants process and donor advised funds.

 

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2009 Grants

$10,000 to support The New Children’s Museum’s Community Access Program

$10,000 to Junior Achievement to fund financial literacy education for students

$10,000 to Elementary Institute of Science to support the Commission on Science That Matters after school program

$10,000 to San Diego Botanic Garden (formerly Quail Botanical Gardens) for picnic tables and umbrellas for the Hamilton Children’s Garden

$2,000 to the Oceanside Museum of Art for general operating support

$2,000 to the RSF Library Guild to fund the Summer Reading Program

$2,000 to the RSF Historical Society to fund digitizing the archives

 

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Past Grants Include:

$29,000 to fund the "historic structures report" in connection with the restoration of the Osuna Adobe, built in Rancho Santa Fe in 1837.

$19,000 for each of three years to Community HousingWorks to fund half of the costs of a Learning Center at Los Robles. Matching funds were donated by community donors.

$10,000 to underwrite one lecture during the exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum in 2007.

$15,000 over three years to underwrite the research of a doctoral student at the University of San Diego in their Center for Non-profit Applied Research.

$5,000 for each of three years to The Monarch School, in support of education for homeless and at-risk children.

Various grants in Rancho Santa Fe to the Senior Center, Community Center, Library, Garden Club, Historical Society, R. Roger Rowe School, Helen Woodward Animal Center, NeighborHelp, San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy, and the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy.