OVERVIEW: The Home Depot Foundation funds programs and organizations dedicated to helping military veterans find housing and avoid homelessness. Smaller grantmaking initiatives support disaster relief and trades education.
IP TAKE: The Home Depot Foundation offers many different types of grants, but its philanthropic focus is highly targeted. It prefers to fund large, well-known organizations with which it can affiliate itself. Check out its founder’s Marcus Foundation for other grant opportunities.
PROFILE: The Home Depot Foundation is the philanthropic arm of it’s corporate sister, the Home Depot. This funder is highly committed to veterans’ causes, especially housing, unemployment, and disability-related issues. Since 2011, Home Depot has given away or invested over $250 million to organizations that help veterans. In addition to Veterans, Home Depot also funds work in Disaster Relief and Trades Education.
Grants for Housing and Veterans
Home Depot offers several types of grants for organizations that support Veterans. The primary focus areas of this program are combat-wounded veterans, homeless veterans and aging veterans. Its National Partner Grants Program partners with large, national nonprofits that work in “homelessness, housing for senior veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities,” while Veteran Housing Grants Program provides grants to “develop and repair housing for veterans, including transitional living facilities and permanent supportive housing.”
Grants for Humanitarian Relief
The Home Depot Foundation’s Disaster Relief program area mobilizes the company’s “merchandising, supply chain and operations teams” to provide relief services following natural disasters throughout the United States, including hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, blizzards, and earthquakes. In disaster situations, Home Depot offers its stores to be used as “command centers” and coordination sites for first responders and relief personnel. A special branch of Home Depot’s philanthropy, The Homer Fund, provides support for Home Depot employees and associates who are themselves affected by such natural disasters.
Grants for Work and Opportunity
The Home Depot Foundation’s Path to Pro program is “committed to educating more people in the skilled trades and helping them find careers in the home improvement industry.” Home Depot has collaborated with organizations including the Home Builders Institute, the SkillPointe Foundation and Atlanta Technical College to run in-person and online training, certification and career development programs. Priority populations include young people and veterans.
Important Grant Details:
Home Depot does not provide detailed information about its past grants on its website but appears to work mainly through long-term partnerships with large, well-established organizations. See its individual program pages for additional information about these partnerships.
The Home Depot Foundation accepts applications for its Veterans Housing Grants, but applications are limited to established veterans housing organizations operating in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, Houston, Detroit, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta or Tampa. The foundation reviews proposals three times per year, with due dates falling in March, July and December. The foundation generally takes about 45 days to review proposals, with final funding determinations requiring a third-party review. Questions about the application process may be submitted to foundation staff via email.
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