The Medina Foundation is a private family foundation working to improve lives by funding human service organizations that provide direct support to Puget Sound residents. Our funding prioritizes organizations that provide direct services to people in these areas, particularly youth, individuals, and families who are low-income, facing barriers, or in communities that have historically been under-resourced. 

Our primary areas of grantmaking: 

• Positive pathways for youth -We support organizations that: Ensure that young people’s basic needs such as safe, stable housing are met. Mentor, tutor, and support youth as they find their own voice, achieve their own goals, and build new skills. Support transition points through school, from early education through postsecondary, including job training.

• Stabilization for families and individuals- We support organizations that: Alleviate hunger, primarily through larger food distribution networks or rural food banks that are also a hub of additional services. Prevent homelessness or quickly stabilize people who are experiencing homelessness. Offer programs that prevent or reduce the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma, and abuse.

• Economic opportunities- We support organizations that: Offer job training and entrepreneurship opportunities. Teach skills and assist with obtaining credentials needed for career advancement. Provide financial education.

The Medina Foundation accepts applications on an ongoing basis, year-round. All requests begin with an LOI. Selected LOIs will be invited to submit full applications.

Notification of grant awards is typically made within two to five months of initial application submission, depending on the volume of requests we receive.