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The Foundation's funding is divided into five categories: Education, Civil society, Research, Human rights and Arts. The trustees are interested in lasting social change, and in forming long-term partnerships with the organisations the Foundation supports.
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation will consider: general or core funding; specific programme grants; small lead gifts for innovative, new or enhanced programmes; challenge gifts to encourage the participation of other donors; and one-time and short-term gifts to sustain a programme until its long-term funding is realised.
The Foundation prefers to use its funding to leverage other donor participation. Requests for endowment, capital campaigns, construction, equipment purchases and debt reduction should not be submitted.
Support can only be given to organisations or groups that are charitable within the UK meaning of that term. This includes UK registered charities and exempt charities such as hospitals, educational establishments, museums, and housing corporations. Applications from individuals or for individual research or study cannot be considered and the trustees do not generally support humanitarian aid or animal welfare charities.
The Foundation strongly prefers to fund strategically; for capacity building, to ‘grow’ a specific charity or area of interest, or to leverage additional support for an organisation.
Charities are asked not to re-apply within twelve months of an appeal to the Foundation, whether they have received a grant or not. Grants are normally made by means of a single payment unless it is a multi-year grant.
The trustees meet on a regular basis to review submissions. The Foundation has a rolling programme and deals with the letters of enquiry and applications in order of receipt. It normally takes between two and three months for each stage of the process, but things can proceed more quickly depending on the timing of the trustees’ meetings. The trustees will provide multi-year or forward funding grants in some cases.
Due to the volume of material received and the Foundation’s small staff, the paperwork for unsuccessful letters of enquiry is not retained and it is therefore not possible to comment on individual cases.
The trustees are happy for the Foundation to be acknowledged along with other donors.
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