The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation (PCLB) seeks to help people solve problems in their communities. We identify and support dynamic leaders and effective organizations who work unselfishly to improve and empower those around them. We provide problem-solvers with connections, information, experience, and money that they need to provide their communities with critical skills and resources – ultimately, to do something remarkable.

PCLB makes grants in five program areas:

• Education

• Outdoors

• Science

• Medicine

• Family Projects

Within these program areas, we seek to support the highest-quality, most effective organizations that align with our broad mission of giving motivated people the tools they need to help themselves and that align with our more specific program area goals. Broadly, we provide the following types of financial support:

• General Operating: PCLB prefers to make general operating grants, to give our grantees the greatest ability to do the work they know is most important to meet our shared goals. Generally, we have general operating relationships with organizations that last for an extended period, recognizing that many of the issues on which we work take time to address.

• Restricted Support: PCLB also makes restricted grants, often to focus on areas of particular geographic interest or to support a specific department or area of work within an organization that has a broad scope.

• Big Bets: Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to take risks and try big things. In this spirit, PCLB makes a limited number of grants to fund especially large, time-limited projects that have the potential to change narratives around and trajectories of grantees’ work.

• Program-Related Investments: PCLB makes Program-Related Investments (PRIs) in the form of low-interest loans. 

We encourage organizations whose work aligns with our program goals to send us an email at inquiry@pclbfoundation.org