Weingart Foundation will consider grants to assist credible agencies and institutions serving children and youth, the aged, the disabled, the homeless, the sick, the poor, or otherwise disadvantaged, and projects benefiting the general community. Grant requests from credible agencies or institutions will be entertained both for specific programs and for capital expenditures.

Consideration will be given to the support of well conceived experimental or demonstration projects in program areas of grant focus that promise significant positive results and are likely to produce long-term multiplier effects.

Preference is given to organizations providing services in the following seven Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Kern, Orange, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.

Grants for agencies providing services in San Diego and Imperial counties are funded by the Weingart-Price Fund administered by The San Diego Foundation.

Grants are not made:

• For propagandizing, influencing legislation and/or elections, promoting voter registration; for political candidates, political campaigns or organizations engaged in political activities.
• To institutions limiting their services to persons of a single religious sect or denomination.
• For social or political problems outside the United States of America.
• To individuals.
• To federated appeals or to organizations that collect funds for redistribution to other nonprofit groups.
• For conferences, workshops, exhibits, travel, surveys, films or publishing activities.

Grants generally are not approved:

• For national organizations, including local chapter requests.
• For regular, ongoing, operating support.
• For agencies or for projects or programs normally financed by government sources.
• For endowment funds.
• For refugee or religious programs, consumer interest or the environment.
• For contingencies, deficits or debt reduction.
• For fund raising dinners or events.
• For medical research.

The Foundation accepts and processes applications for grants throughout the year.

A qualified organization that believes it meets the Foundation's criteria for a grant should first submit a brief to-the-point "test letter". This letter should contain a concise statement of the need for funds, total project cost, the amount sought and enough factual information to enable the Foundation to determine its initial response. Three copies are required.

One copy of any supporting data that the applicant selects may accompany the test letter.

Communication with individual directors is discouraged. However, inquiries to the Foundation are always welcome, and the test letter is the preferred means of initial contact.

The Foundation Board reviews and decides upon all grant applications. In most cases, applicants will receive an answer within three months. Occasionally, final action will be deferred. Each applicant is notified promptly as soon as a decision has been made.