St. Croix Foundation’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program is a partnership between St. Croix Foundation and the Mellon Foundation that seeks to restore, amplify, and mobilize the humanities as a vehicle for healing and social transformation in St. Croix. Designed to empower arts and cultural initiatives that celebrate St. Croix’s rich heritage and foster cultural education, the program will support project-based grants, as well as general operating grants for organizations whose mission and programming explicitly center arts, culture, and heritage.

Program Overview & Objectives

St. Croix Foundation’s 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program will begin accepting applications on March 21, 2025, with all submissions due by April 25, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. AST. Applicants will receive notification as to the status of their application by May 23, 2025.

• A total of $534,000 will be awarded through this grant program to 7-15 eligible nonprofit organizations in the St. Croix community.
• Applications are invited for grants ranging from $10,000 to $75,000 for a performance period of 12-18 months, beginning June 1, 2025.
• Average awards will be approximately $40,000, with phased disbursements for most awards.

SCF’s 2025 Healing Humanities Grant Program is for arts and culture projects and organizations that contribute to place-keeping. SCF envisions place-keeping as the ongoing care, preservation, and celebration of a community’s cultural and historical identity, ensuring that local traditions, stories, and spaces remain relevant and accessible to current and future generations.  Through this grant program, SCF aims to cultivate collective place-keeping impact by:

• Supporting innovative multi-generational projects that promote and preserve the arts, culture, heritage and natural environment – rooted in our place.
• Nourishing and emboldening St. Croix institutions dedicated to culture, heritage, and the natural environment.
• Fostering a diverse range of initiatives that exemplify the significance of place and community narratives.

Applicant Eligibility

Eligible applicants for this grant opportunity include:

• 501(c)3 organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• Nonprofits operating as a sponsored project of a 501(c)3 organization
• Please note that nonprofit organizations must be based on St. Croix and demonstrate a history of prior engagement and impact on St. Croix.
• Organizations that operate Territory-wide are also welcome to apply for services that are provided on St. Croix.

To Apply

• All applications are due April 25, 2025, at 11:59 PM AST and must be submitted via the Foundation’s online portal.
• Access the formal 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place-Keeping Grant Program Request for Proposals for details on eligibility, proposal content, the application rubric, and instructions on how to access the Foundation’s grants portal to view the application.

For questions about eligibility or how to apply please contact Paloma McGregor, Program Officer [Grantmaking] Humanities & Culture, at grants@stxfoundation.org.

The Aston Wayne Harty Community Fund was established in 2023 in honor and memory of the life of Aston Wayne Harty. To support this special fund, click here: https://www.stxfoundation.org/give-now/?fund=St.%20Croix%20Foundation%20Funds

Established in 2013, this Fund supports public school students, educational programs, and cultural activities on the island of St. Croix. DIAM’s past awards include the Roseway Sailing Program, St. Croix Central High School, and the St. Croix Christmas Boat Parade. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. To date, the DIAM Fund has awarded $314,124.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Limited funds are available.
Eligibility: Organizations

The Foundation Scholars Fund was initially established in 2005 by a generous donor who wished to provide support to young adults attending the University of the Virgin Islands and majoring in business. Since then, the Foundation Scholars Fund has broadened to provide scholarships for youth pursuing summer enrichment opportunities, adults pursuing certification or professional development, and traditional scholarships for higher education. To date, the Foundation Scholars Fund has awarded $43,735 in scholarships.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Limited funds are available.
Eligibility: Individuals

The Lang-Wise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Scholarship Fund was established in the fall of 2022 at St. Croix Foundation by St. Croix Native and engineer, Raydiance Wise, to pay forward the support she received from multiple organizations when she was pursuing a STEM degree. Recognizing that scholarships help cover significant costs associated with higher education, this award is designed to encourage students to pursue STEM-related fields of study by offsetting expenses related to travel, clothing, textbooks, and other expenses that become burdensome. In its first two years, the Lang-Wise STEM Scholarship Fund has awarded $31,900 in grants and scholarships.

Accepting Applications: April 15

Application Due Date: June 2

Application Guidelines: Please review the application guidelines here to determine your eligibility. St. Croix Foundation’s application portal will open to accept applications on April 15. If you have any questions, please reach out to Lilli Cox at lcox@stxfoundation.org.

The Patrick and Amelia Williams Opportunity Fund was established in the spring of 2018 by Junior Gaspard (native son of St. Croix) in honor of his grandparents, who, despite great odds, maintained a work ethic and standard of excellence that has gone on to impact future generations. Originally launched as a competitive scholarship program, in 2022, the Foundation’s Grants Review Committee and advisors to the Fund assessed through surveys and interviews of past candidates that sustained support for awardees is critical as federal aid decreases and coursework intensifies. As such, the Foundation’s Grants Review Committee invited past awardees to apply for this special scholarship, following them through their senior year at university.

The Fund prioritizes graduates from public high schools on the island of St. Croix. Since its inception, the Fund has granted $95,000 in scholarships, ranging from $1000 to $5000, to 17 St. Croix students pursuing degrees in nursing, the culinary arts, engineering, biology, music education, business, meteorology, and physical therapy, to name just a few. Students are now attending colleges across the nation in Florida, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Delaware, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, and more.

Accepting Applications: Beginning on April 15

Applications Due: June 2

Application Guidelines: Please review the application guidelines here to determine your eligibility. St. Croix Foundation’s application portal will open to accept applications on April 15. If you have any questions, please reach out to Lilli Cox at lcox@stxfoundation.org.

Established in 2005, this Fund promotes continuing adult education for residents of St. Croix and provides summer enrichment scholarships to young people, emphasizing culture, academic skill-building, and youth development. This Fund has awarded $66,000 in grants and scholarships since its inception.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Limited funds are available.
Eligibility: Individuals and organizations