Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Grants

From Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is dedicated to dramatically improving lives and the world through innovative strategies, systems changing approaches, and disrupting technologies. They aim to support social entrepreneurs with dynamic ideas in the early stages by offering leverage, commitment, and nurturing the potential for significant impact on society.

Type of Support

Overview

The grant program focuses on supporting transformational societal change through entrepreneurs and enterprises addressing critical social or environmental issues. DRK funds:

Organizations focused on a critical social or environmental issue.
Founders aiming for significant impact expansion.
Entities operating in Africa, Europe, India, Latin America, and the United States.
Independent nonprofit and mission-driven for-profit entities, including US 501(c)3 and its non-US equivalents, C corporations, B corporations, and hybrid organizations.
Post-pilot, pre-scale organizations that have shown early indications of impact.
Organizations led by full-time founders or those intending to be full-time.
Projects that value diversity and are committed to justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging practices.

DRK prioritizes:

Alignment with systemic social change, data-based decision making.
Continually learning leaders who understand their communities and are committed to justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Organizations designed for impact at scale.

Supported issues include Arts & Culture, Civic Engagement, Economic Empowerment, Education, Energy & Environment, Food & Agriculture, Health, Social Justice, and Systemic Poverty.