CASEY FOUNDATION, MARGUERITE

Contact information:
(formerly Casey Family Grants Program)
1425 4th Avenue, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98101-2222
Phone: 206-691-3134
Fax: 206-286-2725
Email: info@caseygrants.org

Website: www.caseygrants.org

Type of foundation: Independent foundation

Types of grants: General/operating support, income development, capacity-building, program development, program evaluation, research, technical assistance.

Description: Marguerite Casey was born in Seattle, Washington on September 5, 1900, the only daughter and last of four children to Henry J. and Annie E. Casey. Like her brother Jim, the founder of United Parcel Service, Marguerite Casey believed deeply in the importance of family and spent much of her adult life working to create opportunities for families and communities to succeed and thrive. In 1948, Marguerite and her three brothers established the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Almost two decades later, Jim Casey's interest in long-term foster care led him to establish Casey Family Programs (1966) in the family's home town of Seattle. Sharing her brother's passion and vision for improving the foster care system, Marguerite served as a board member for Casey Family Programs from 1966-1971. The Marguerite Casey Foundation was officially created by Casey Family Programs in October of 2001 to help expand Casey's outreach.

The Foundation now works to help low-income families to strengthen their voices and mobilize their communities in order to achieve a more just and equitable society for all. Its grantmaking is informed and guided by the following goals and objectives: engage low-income parents in efforts to improve conditions for their families, connect grantee organizations within and across regions and disciplines for movement-building, and enhance the capacity and effectiveness of cornerstone organizations in low-income communities. Grantmaking is focused on three areas: education, advocacy and activism. The Foundation has supported media initiatives that intersect with its core priorities.

Sample grants:

• $1.2 million to Persephone Productions, Washington, DC to produce segments on working families (distributed by PBS nationwide) (2004).
• $500,000 to Common Sense Media, San Francisco, CA, to build national network of media-literate families who can effectively advocate for family friendly media policy (2006).
• $450,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, for statewide and national expansion of The Beat Within, program addressing the needs and concerns of first-time youth offenders (2003).
• $300,000 to Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, NY to inform the public regarding economic challenges facing American families and to encourage civic action addressing poverty (2008).
• $300,000 to Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA to provide immigrant families throughout the Central Valley with high-quality culturally competent, educational radio services (2006).
• $230,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to continue work with California Council on Youth Relations, to strengthen existing vehicles for youth voice and to explore new avenues to strengthen network of multiethnic news providers (2007).
• $225,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to develop and implement national communications strategy in support of Equal Voice for America's Families campaign (2007).
• $225,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to continue work with California Council on Youth Relations, to strengthen existing vehicles for youth voice and to explore new avenues to strengthen network of multi-ethnic news providers (2006).
• $150,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to expand media coverage of Equal Voice for America's Families campaign (2008).
• $150,000 to Nonprofit Information Networking Association, Boston, MA, to promote effective, values-based management information through print and electronic communications for small and mid-size nonprofit organizations (2006).
• $150,000 to Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA, to provide immigrant families throughout Central Valley with high-quality culturally competent, educational radio services (2003).
• $125,000 to KUT Radio, Austin, TX, for Latino USA's expanded coverage of the lives of new immigrant families -- both Latino and non-Latino -- in Equal Voice for America's Families (2009).
• $125,000 to KUT Radio, Latino USA, Austin, TX for expanded coverage of lives of new immigrant families, Latino and non-Latino, in Equal Voice for America's Families. Grant made through University of Texas (2008).
• $100,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, for a pilot media hub demonstration project in New Orleans, LA involving participants from the Equal Voice for America's Families campaign (2010).
• $100,000 to Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA, to empower Latinos and other underserved communities through the broadcast of informational and cultural programming over the public airwaves (2009).
• $100,000 to Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA, to provide immigrant families throughout Central Valley with high-quality culturally competent, educational radio services (2005).
• $100,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, for statewide and national expansion of Beat Within, program addressing needs and concerns of first-time youth offenders (2005).
• $100,000 to Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA, to provide immigrant families throughout Central Valley with high-quality culturally competent, educational radio services (2004).
• $100,000 to GroundSpark, San Francisco, CA, to support Respect for All, national outreach program and collaboration that will train parents, youth and service providers to increase their competency on diversity, reduce incidence of name-calling and bullying in schools and prevent bias among youth and adults (2004).
• $75,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, for alternative media outlets in effort to highlight issues of systemic inequality (2009).
• $75,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to support alternative media outlets in effort to highlight issues of systemic inequality (2008).
• $60,000 to Community Media Organizing Project, Montgomery, AL, for ongoing media training. Grant made through Federation of Childcare Centers of AL (2009).
• $50,000 to Futuro Media Group, Saint Louis, MO, for starting a multimedia, multiplatform organization that gathers and reports news about Latinos and their diverse America (2010).
• $50,000 to JumpStart Productions, New York, NY, for NOW on PBS, for the production of Women and Families beat. Grant made through Educational Broadcasting Corporation (2009).
• $50,000 to JumpStart Productions, New York, NY, for NOW on PBS, for production costs for a beat on Women and Families. Grant made through Educational Broadcasting Corporation (2009).
• $50,000 to Arte Publico Press, Houston, TX, for pilot family- and youth-focused health and nutrition series of bilingual books and allied public educational campaign efforts (2009).
• $50,000 to New America Media, San Francisco, CA, to institutionalize a family issues beat. Grant made through Pacific News Service (2009).
• $50,000 to Last Word Productions, Washington, DC, to support production of Malveaux Report, new public affairs series that focuses on economic issues as they affect low-income communities and communities of color. Grant made through Skinner Leadership Institute (2007).
• $50,000 to Last Word Productions, Washington, DC, for production of The Malveaux Report, new public affairs series that focuses on economic issues as they affect low-income communities and communities of color. Grant made through Skinner Leadership Institute (2006).
• $50,000 to Kindling Group, Chicago, IL, for outreach campaign and training, based on Doula program, for local teen mentors to help low-income communities meet needs of pregnant teens and their babies, and A Doula Story, documentary film about community doulas (2005).
• $50,000 to Kindling Group, Chicago, IL, for outreach campaign and training for local teen mentors to improve how low-income communities meet needs of pregnant teens and their babies based on Doula Program and A Doula Story, documentary film about community doulas (2004).
• $50,000 to Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA, to support statewide and national expansion of The Beat Within, program addressing needs and concerns of first-time youth offenders (2004).
• $30,000 to Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno, Fresno, CA, for the policy advocacy and civic engagement capacity of low-income families engaged in Equal Voice for Change in the Central Valley (EVCCV) - emerging network led by Centro Binacional Para el Desarrollo, Indigena Oaxaqueno, Parent Voices Fresno Chapter, Parent Institute for Quality Education, and Radio Bilingue (2010).
• $30,000 to Thin Air Community Radio, Spokane, WA for locally-produced radio programs which involve low-income families and other underserved community constituents on topics of economic justice and related issues. Grant made through Citizens for Clean Air (2006).
• $25,000 to Center for Community Change, Washington, DC, to develop network of Native Media and Technology centers around country (2006).
• $20,000 to KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Seattle, WA for expansion of family issues and ethnically diverse programming (2003).
• $15,000 to 605 Citizenship Project, Oakdale, CA, for an additional ten television shows per year on the topics of citizenship and family resources (2005).
• $15,000 to Thin Air Community Radio, Spokane, WA, for challenge grant to allow KYRS to ensure one full-time paid staff position and encourage growing listener base to contribute to community station (2005).
• $15,000 to Thin Air Community Radio, Spokane, WA, for challenge grant to ensure full-time paid staff position and encourage growing listener base (2004).
• $15,000 to Northwest Communities Education Center, Granger, WA, for Radio KDNA, Spanish language public radio station providing educational programs and critical information for low-income migrant families involving parents and children in programming (2003).
• $10,000 to Kovno Communications, Berkeley, CA, to create and distribute documentary film on California Supreme Court Justice, Cruz Reynoso (2008).

Fit for public broadcasting: The Foundation is a potential fit for public media (especially in its focus geographic regions) that are implementing projects related to low-income families.

Eligibility: Applications are not accepted. Giving is primarily in four regions of the U.S.: California; the Southwest, including the U.S./Mexico border; the Deep South; the Midwest, beginning in Chicago, IL; and Washington state. No grants to individuals, or for capital campaigns, endowments, fundraising drives, litigation, or film and video production.

How to apply: The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or letters of intent. Interested organizations would need to find an introduction. The Board meets quarterly.

Giving range: Grants generally range from $100,000 – $650,000.

Assets: $598,485,474 (2010).

Total giving: $20,976,412 (2010).

View 2011 Annual Report here.