Description

The Doris Duke Foundation’s Grant Resources describes its general grantmaking across five national programs, rather than a single grant competition. Program staff research gaps and needs within supported fields, then develop initiatives comprising related grants that advance specific goals. Funding is awarded through invitations, request-for-proposal competitions and regranting competitions administered by service organizations. The foundation also occasionally supports opportunistic grants broadly related to its programs’ missions.

The programs support performing artists’ careers and new ways of creating and sharing work; elevate U.S. Muslim storytelling; advance environmental resilience for wildlife and people; promote children’s healthy development and protection from abuse and neglect; and invest in new health-science approaches. Most grants are awarded through competitive processes or invitation. Staff review unsolicited letters of inquiry, although very few result in grants.