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The Hoover Family Foundation was founded in 1992 to assist non-profit tax-exempt organizations in the social service and education areas to improve the quality of life and foster self-sufficiency. The foundation focuses on funding organizations located in and providing services to the residents of the metropolitan areas where the foundation is located -- Portland, Oregon and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Our guidelines are specific: Our Indiana location only funds organizations that provide services in and around Indianapolis. Our Oregon location only funds organizations that provide services within the Urban Growth Boundary of the Portland metropolitan area. (Click here for a map).
Our knowledge of organizations in these areas and the issues facing them is important to us, so we must stand by these geographic restrictions.
Organizations located and providing services in the Hoover family areas: Portland,
Oregon (map),
and Indianapolis, Indiana
Programs that aid poverty level and minority groups
Programs that foster individual/community self-sufficiency
Effective providing of social services
Improvement of educational opportunities at all levels
We do not make grants:
To individuals
For sectarian or religious purposes
For capital campaigns
For event funding
For multi-year funding
For college scholarships
For lobbying or political purposes
For medical research
To private foundations or endowment funds
In support of regular operating budgets
To provide long-term funding or post-event funding
Evaluation of proposals is based on:
Ability to fulfill a community need for an under-served population in Portland
Feasibility and soundness of your implementation plan
A well-thought-out evaluation plan
Viability of subsequent long-term funding
With limited resources and a large number of applications, the foundation is able to fund only a small portion of the many worthwhile requests submitted. Those constraints also limit the size of particular grants and the ability to fund on an annual basis.
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