CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST

The Lazar Foundation’s specific environmental interests in the Pacific Northwest are listed below. The Foundation accepts inquiries for projects related to these interests, except from Alaska.

• Conservation of large, biologically significant terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

• Preservation of biological diversity.

• Projects that broaden the environmental movement.

• Projects that strengthen or increase the capacity of the environmental movement’s ability to develop, shape, and communicate its message.

The Foundation has additional program interests for which proposals are accepted by invitation only.

GRANT RESTRICTIONS

The Lazar Foundation does not accept proposals for the following issue areas:

• Toxics

• Land acquisition or land trusts

• Environmental education

• Individuals

• Computer-related expenses

• Civic projects.

• Endowments or capital campaigns.

Additionally, the Foundation will usually not fund the following:

• Film or video

• Urban issues or suburban projects

• Conservation-based scientific research, unless it directly supports a project that the Foundation is currently funding, and then only rarely.

TOTAL DONATIONS EACH YEAR

$700,000 TO $800,000

GRANT DEADLINES

[NOTE: Our deadlines have changed] The Foundation will award grants two times per year. Full proposals must be in our office no later than April 1st and October 1st. Early submissions are encouraged.

GRANT CRITERIA

Use the link to Lazar Foundation’s application portal to apply. Apply by the fall or spring deadlines only if requested to do so in writing by either the Trustees or named Advisors.

If you have not been formally invited, feel free to send a one page letter of interest at any time to Sybil Ackerman-Munson, Advisor, The Lazar Foundation, at sybil@lazarfoundation.org.