About GBKF

For more than two decades, the Trustees have awarded grants to organizations and institutions whose principal interests are educational achievement, art and culture, life skills and research directed toward enhancing the information base available for public-policy making.

Since 1995, the Grayce B. Kerr Fund has partnered with the Talbot County Board of Education and the Talbot County government on a number of projects, including the swimming pools and athletic fields, an Automotive Tech Center for high school students, and the One-to-One Laptop Initiative, and ambitious effort to equip all upper-grade students with portable computers.

The Fund supports important research by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and has endowed academic advancement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Academy of Sciences, John Hopkins University, Washington College, the University of Maryland, Washington and Lee University, and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Of special interest to the Trustees is helping not-for-profit organizations become self-sufficient. To that end, proposals that commit the Fund to continued support for operations are discouraged. There are not grant minimums or maximums and in some years preference may be given to large grants where Trustees believe a genuine impact may be accomplished.

Only organizations with tax-exempt (501c3) status under U.S. Internal Revenue Code will be considered for support. Funding will not be provided for grants to individuals or general operating support.

We review grant proposals by invitation only. We do not accept unsolicited grant requests.