The Patricia Kind Family Foundation

The Patricia Kind Family Foundation only accepts applications, supporting documentation, and grant reports online through our website. Please see information on this page outlining our grant cycles, application availability and deadlines.

Because of limited staff and time, the Board can not meet with or discuss funding options with potential grantees prior to receipt of a complete grant request. Please be sure to review our Application Guidelines to determine if your program meets our funding requirements.

The Board meets in January, April and August to make funding decisions. Most giving is in the range of $5,000 to $25,000/year for a one to three year period.

The mission of the Foundation is to financially support non-profit organizations that help children, adults, and seniors obtain basic human needs, including food, shelter, clothing, education, and physical and mental health care. We are especially committed to helping individuals and families who struggle daily with the effects of poverty.The Foundation is family managed and believes strongly in the importance of supporting families.

The Foundation is interested in encouraging practical, caring solutions to community problems by supporting preventive and direct service efforts. The Patricia Kind Family Foundation operates no programs of its own, but performs its mission by funding proven approaches from non-profit organizations. Foundation grants are made only to organizations operating in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware or Chester counties that are tax exempt under Section 501c(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Priority will be given to smaller organizations with budgets under $1 million who have the potential to make a difference. These organizations are encouraged to apply for general operating money.

Excluded from the Foundation’s funding priorities are grants in direct support of individuals, i.e., scholarships or fellowships; endowments; and capital projects.

Grantees must wait one year after completion of a grant before being eligible to submit a new request.

We encourage applicants who are denied funding to wait at least one year before reapplying for a grant.

All applications must be made online through our website during our three grant cycles.

The online application will open approximately one month prior to each deadline and close at midnight on the deadline date.

Winter Deadline: January 15th
- Proposals are reviewed in February and March.
- Final funding decisions are made at our Board meeting in April.

Spring Deadline: ** for 2013 the application cycle opened on March 4th and closed on April 8th. This change was posted on our website in February.
- Proposals are reviewed in May, June, and July.
- Final funding decisions are made at our Board meeting in August.

Fall Deadline: September 15th
- Proposals are reviewed in October, November, and December.
- Final funding decisions are made at our Board meeting in January.

All applicants are contacted during the review process. Once the application cycle closes, applicants will receive an email confirming the application was received on time with all required documentation. After the application has been fully reviewed you will be contacted as to the status, either to schedule a site visit for further evaluation or notification that the proposal was not selected for funding. This process will take 4-6 weeks after the deadline.