Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation

Guidelines

Regina Frankenberg directed that the remainder of her estate be used to establish a foundation to support organizations and programs that promote the care, conservation, treatment, well-being and prevention of cruelty to animals.

Funding Interests:
Animal welfare, through two focus areas:

• Protecting endangered and threatened species by supporting conservation and research; and
• Reducing the homelessness, mistreatment and euthanasia of companion animals through adoption, training, spay/neuter and other programs by providing capacity building and infrastructure grants to organizations doing this work.

The Foundation typically does not provide general operating support.

Geographic Focus:

• With respect to wild animals: National, including U.S. organizations with international programs.
• With respect to companion animals: New York City and neighboring counties only.

Restrictions:
No grants are made to individuals or private foundations or for matching gifts or loans. Organizations requesting support must have annual operating budgets of $250,000 or more. Organizations receiving support must not engage in or supply animals for vivisection. The Foundation does not provide support for projects in which animals are held in captivity and also does not make grants to wildlife sanctuaries.

Eligibility:
Organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as public charities and tax-exempt under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Grant Cycle:
The annual application deadline is July 1. If July 1 falls on a weekend, the deadline is the next business day. Decisions are made before the Foundation’s fiscal year end, which is December 31.

Type of Support:
Project, capital and capacity building

JPMorgan Chase Relationship:
Sole trustee

Application

Please include the following items in your organization’s request:

1. Proposal (maximum of three pages) which includes:

a. Overview of the organization (i.e., primary goals, needs or problems being addressed, population served)
b. Description of the project for which you are seeking support

i.      Statement of purpose and the needs being addressed by the project
ii.      Population served and how they will benefit from the project
iii.      Project timeline/anticipated project duration

c. Brief biography of the executive director and key project staff

2. Project budget

a. If it is a two-year request, please include a two-year projected budget
b. Include a list of foundation, corporate and other support applied to the budget

3. Current fiscal year organizational budget

a. also include a projected budget for upcoming year (if available)
b. indicate if the organization has an endowment

i. quote the most recent value of the corpus
ii. indicate if the funds are permanently restricted or board restricted

4. List of foundation and corporate supporters

a. include a list of funders for the current fiscal year
b. also provide a list from the most recently completed fiscal year
c. include foundation and corporation names and amounts
 

Please note:
All applications to the
Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation
must be submitted online.