The Sterling-Turner Foundation focuses its giving for higher and secondary education, social services, youth, the elderly, fine and performing arts groups and other cultural programs, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant church support and religious programs, hospitals, health services, AIDS research, hospices, programs for women and children, minorities, the homeless, the handicapped, urban and community development, civic and urban affairs, libraries, and conservation programs.
The Sterling-Turner Foundation gives to organizations within the following fields of interest:
- Addiction services
- Art museums
- Arts and culture
- Basic and remedial instruction
- Botanical gardens
- Business promotion
- Cancers
- Catholicism
- Child development
- Child educational development
- Child welfare
- Community and economic development
- Domestic violence
- Early childhood education
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family services
- Food aid
- Health
- Heart and circulatory system diseases
- Higher education
- Historic preservation
- HIV/AIDS
- Homeless services
- Homeless shelters
- Hospice care
- Hospital care
- Human services
- Judaism
- Libraries
- Mental health care
- Museums
- Natural resources
- Parks
- Patient social services
- Performing arts
- Protestantism
- Reading promotion
- Rehabilitation
- Religion
- Secondary education
- Sports and recreation
- Theater
- Visual arts
- Youth organizing
- Youth services
Projects serving the following populations are of special interest:
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Children
- Children and youth
- Ethnic and racial groups
- Families
- Homeless people
- Low-income people
- Out-of-home youth
- People of African descent
- People of Latin American descent
- People with HIV/AIDS
- Seniors
- Students
- Women and girls
The Sterling-Turner Foundation funded 237 grants to 118 organizations totaling $9,035,400 over the past five years.
The Sterling-Turner Foundation was established in 1960 in Texas. Please contact the foundation to verify eligibility prior to submission of a full application. Funds may be used for the following purposes: